Here is one of the two berried female Orange Eyed Blue Tiger Shrimp in my tank. She has so many eggs she looks like she is going to pop. I am once again excited for a new batch of young shrimp-lets.
The Plague took its toll, but I have had my new batch in the tank for a while now, no sign of infection and no deaths. It makes me very happy.
Typically I do!
This person go lucky because all the shrimp they said arrived in good health. They were high grade and the 2 berried females are doing very well. Typically this kind of poor packaging arrived soaking wet with dead shrimp everywhere. This was a hobbyist and not a professional seller. He also was very nice about the 2 missing shrimp and quickly refunded all my money. I am not going to formally review the person because they are not a vendor.
Here are the pics, please take some humor in them knowing that all the shrimp are happy healthy and berried (2 of them) a week later.
Professional service and high quality shrimp that have a long history (bred by APB for over 7 years) of excellence.
APB ships small OEBT but I have never seen OEBT that have such nice color when so small. Most will not be colored up but when you see solid blue at 1/4th an inch you know you have very high quality stock.
I received 13 total shrimp instead of 10 and they all survived with 2nd day shipping.
Personally I recommend getting very young shrimp as you know you are more likely to get an even mix of sexes so in a month you end up with a strong breeding population. I have noticed when buying mature and sub-adult shrimp that you are more likely to end up with a higher number of males because the berried females will always be removed before sale. I think buying younger shrimp is always in your benefit unless you are getting a favor from a friend.
5 stars, Buy OEBT http://www.alphaprobreeders.com/orange-eye-blue-tigers-sale-10/
Pictures of the shrimp – all about 1cm, most OEBT don’t show any color until twice this size.
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Update – I also got a batch of Mischling shrimp (Taiwan bee shrimp hybrid with Crystal red/crystalblack) also very small but kind of awesome.)
I ordered a batch of 8 but as you can see I got more than 8 🙂
Mischling shrimp acclimating
After 30 minutes in their tank 
I have received 3 separate shipments of OEBTs. They all look great!
I have 12 or so very small ones that arrived from Alpha Pro Breeders. (My guess on age is between 12-20 days). For such young shrimp some have very nice color.
I received 6 shrimp from someone I met on Planted Tank, most were fully adults and 2 were berried with lots of eggs.
I received another 12 from AquaticaCafe, and those were once again very high grade OEBTs, all looked to be just barely sub adult (about 20-40 days).
I am hoping my 1 survivor and this newly formed colony do better than the first attempt.
The is still 1 OEBT in my OEBT tank. It is 18 days old. The other OEBT is a lower grade in my community tank.
I had 4 BTOEs on order but the vendor had some issues with stock, So I will have to wait on those. I have a total of 29 OEBTs being delivered in the next week or so from 3 sources. They are of varied age and quality. I have been gradually reconditioning my OEBT tank to sit slightly more acidic (instead of 7.2-7.4pH I have lowered it to about 6.4-6.5) over the past 3 weeks. I used discus pH buffering in my RO water to get the pH where I wanted it. I also started using a mineral supplement with water changes. My RO water in the last few weeks has been coming out very high in ph (but still 0-10 ppm tds) so I am going to replace the filters this week as well. To see if it helps.
I am hoping my 1 survivor from the mayhem will go on to produce the next generation of Super Blue Tigers (arbitrary term referring to hardiness please don’t say I have some super strain of blue tigers that are a 4 inches long or something)
I have not posted in a while, as all but one of my OEBTs ended up dead from the infection. I have 1 OEBT and 1 Baby left, although I have not seen the baby in a couple days.
I do have more on the way and the baby and the 1 survivor have been solo and alive for almost a week. I will post more pics soon. Identifying infection was a hard lesson to learn but now I know.
Jason Wechsler
Orange Eyed Blue Tiger Shrimp Blog (OEBT) 