randy Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Have you seen this? It was just announced a few days ago. It has been reported before but I think MK has the colony more stable now. What do you think about this morph? CharlesWex, JamesHe, SurraGync and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Thats freakin awesome! Does it have a name yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4n Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 I seen it! He called it MK Breed Red Ghost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblongShrimp Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 That is pretty sweet looking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Nice! How much are they going for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHe Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 I saw it on FB. it's the opposite of thicker white for the PRL which has no white at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Nice! How much are they going for? There are less than 200 of these at the moment....the price isn't very friendly... it's toward his top grade PRL ;-) I'm sure as they get more common, the price will drop. But if anyone wants to be the first in USA, PM me and I will try to help. h4n 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 I don't have the environment at the moment to be conducive to them, however congratulations to him on selectively breeding a new var. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicca32 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 i do but dont have funds lol a pretty shrimp for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbarbee54 Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 That is cool, I saw it on facebook as well but this is a higher res pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenteam Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 That's cool how it looks like someone took paint to color in the red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayphly Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 Kinda funny... MK USA dealer is located in Canada. Hopefully they'll be available in the staes soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 The red and black ghost bees are in breeder and keeper mag 1. But nothing like this solid color. Gorgous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayphly Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 What grade would these be? SSS ghost crystals? To me they're the perfect lowest grade you could get. ( i don't mean that in a demeaning way) I love em'!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbarbee54 Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 The mk dealer in Canada is the op randy Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk mayphly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicente Mcdonnell Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 I dunno about this shrimp variation. it looks suspiciously similar to my low grade CRS! Maybe i should start treating these shrimp of mine with more respect, and quit calling them low grade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 30, 2014 Report Share Posted August 30, 2014 All new vars start from somewhere. No doubt he started with low grade white and has been working to breed out any white spots, while retaining as much red as possible. You could try starting your own line too. randy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbarbee54 Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 You should work to keep intensifying the red and keep breeding the clear sections h4n 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicente Mcdonnell Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 You should work to keep intensifying the red and keep breeding the clear sections Haha! After i saw his post on facebook i was planning on doing just that. I have a male female pair that are near colorless in their white areas and a spare tank too. I just thought that everyone who has entry level CRS have a couple of colorless shrimp like the one in my picture. Are these kind of shrimp more uncommon these days? Due to them being culled all the time maybe? I heard that B grade shrimp have become somewhat rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 I think that's exactly the reason, Mcdonnelv. For so long everyone has focus on the high grades, they lost sight of other varieties that could be made. Now, because I love vars., I'm smiling ear to ear at some of these new types popping up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted September 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 What grade would these be? SSS ghost crystals? To me they're the perfect lowest grade you could get. ( i don't mean that in a demeaning way) I love em'!!! Currently MK has S, SS, and SSS pattern. But for obvious reason there's not much point in carrying the SSS pattern. The SS pattern looks the best, tigertooth isn't bad either. As for the the USA distributor in Canada, if anyone wants to reclaim the territory, just let me know ;-) Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted September 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2014 MK and I had a chat about this variation today. He considers this a new variation from mutation as opposed to selectively breeding the white out of a regular CRS. He found a few of these out of many regular CRS and then kept those to get this "new species". Currently, these are about 90% true breeding. And there should be no white on the clear part at all and the offspring should be either the same as the parents or very small percentage are just like regular CRS, nothing in between. Soothing Shrimp and h4n 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 8, 2014 Report Share Posted September 8, 2014 Cool. More than one way create a var. His may be a mutation, someone else may selectively breed it. Either way, I like it. randy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hey Posted September 20, 2014 Report Share Posted September 20, 2014 Cool. More than one way create a var. His may be a mutation, someone else may selectively breed it. Either way, I like it. This really sounds like the kind of project I am looking to do, now to get my setup started and find a bunch of rly low grade PRL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
British Reds Posted September 22, 2014 Report Share Posted September 22, 2014 Surely a cross involving trifasciata to remove white pigment? randy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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