Green Jade Shrimp - 6 pack

UPDATE: Some babies survived! Now too large to be eaten by chili rasbora. Still zero deaths. Nice, healthy shrimp! First - I had an issue with my mailman. Not the seller's fault at all. USPS driver made the decision that the package couldn't be left at the door because it contained live animals. He marked it as delivered anyway, so I came home on lunch to no package, but a missed delivery receipt that was marked "signature required." This is ridiculous, of course. It's cold here right now (midwest), but the shrimp were very well packed. At any rate, he stopped by again before I had to go back to work. Once again, this was no fault of the seller's. I just have a strange mailman. They weren't warm anymore, but they definitely weren't too cold. I ordered on Friday, and they arrived on Monday. I had to just drop the bag in the tank to warm them up and didn't get time to look beyond making sure I saw movement before I had to leave. I got a better look when I came back, and was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of tiny babies crawling on the sponge material the shipper included. I didn't get a good count of adults/sub adults (not a serious breeder or anything - they're just entertaining and fun to keep) but there were definitely more than six. Two were very good sized (and very, very green), with several smaller sub-adults ranging from true green to green and clear, to one that is a beautiful mix of green with blue on his underside. Mostly very green, though. Males and females (I know they don't guarantee that, but it's likely just based on the number of shrimp). I proceeded with drip acclimating them, and dropped them in. I wasn't expecting babies, but there is food for them to eat in there. I may not see them to know if they survived for quite a while. They're in with some chili rasbora, so it's quite possible the babies will get eaten, in spite of having rocks, live plants, and other hiding places. We shall see. I hatched some brine shrimp so maybe the chilis will leave them alone. As for the others, I've had two molts that I counted (successful and not unexpected at all) but no problems I can see. No deaths, parasites or illness, and they're happily munching away on a cucumber as I write this. Pre-shrimp, there was a little algae on some of the tank fixtures, and by the morning after they'd been introduced, it was gone. Just a fun side-effect of hungry shrimp. I'll probably buy more from here, though I may consider a different color simply for the variety. They're good looking, healthy shrimp that arrived promptly, were packed well, and are doing great so far. I'll update if I encounter a problem, but they're active and seem pretty happy.

I ordered and it read "arriving 22nd - 8th", they came super early on the 18th.. This lead to a small issue of them being outside on my porch in 18 degree weather.. Fortunately the seller took the time and packaged them well and included a 40 hour heat source etc. All 6 are super active and alive (also 4 out of 6 are very green, a few of the dark ones throw off some blue when close to the LED while acclimating), I'll post an update if they end up being in poor health or anything else that appears negative.. Only gripe would be that the 'moss' ball is actually green foam? Unless I'm confused and its some other species because it appears to be nothing like my other marimo balls in growth and I can see the porous nature of the foam in its texture.

I ordered Green Jade (6ea.) and Yellow Rice Shrimp (8ea.) and instead I got x5 Green Jade x7 Yellow Rice (maybe 6 and one is actually more of an orange, see photos attached) and one that is most definitely a Blue Dream Neo. {Like this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K3WX2TM/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_GT4PVM9BSS7EW1NT1CQF , again see photo attached} I already have a pretty diverse and thriving community of shrimp in my tank and have at least 4 other Blue Dreams. All this being said, I did read the disclaimer and I know that shipping may cause some stress and loss of color. They arrived on 4/20 (lol) and I will update this review if any are lost or if this little blue cutie turns out to be a beautiful jade instead. A little disappointed that I didn’t get a full order of shrimp though, I was outright missing a green and one yellow, possibly two. I think this just comes down to QC. I made sure to check the sponges and even kept them in the quarantine tank for the time being, just in case. Side note: The attached pictures are from a clean stainless steel bowl i used to slowly bring the water up to temp while adding tank water 50% at a time and it worked a treat, nice slow and even temp change given it’s not too warm in their new home. Lastly, these poor little babies arrived suuuuper hungry, as evidenced by the pictures I added a few granules of Sera shrimp food and they all immediately flocked to them and chowed down for the entirety of the suggested acclimation period, they made short work of everything pictured. All this being said, I’m not all that upset about all of this, and in fact I plan on ordering from Aqua Huna again and tacking some new fish on while I’m at it. I must praise them for all shrimp arriving alive and even well ahead of their expected ship-out date. They all look healthy and happy as shrimp could be other than being hungry hungry hippos. Thank you Aqua Huna for the order and I honestly appreciate all of you. As mentioned I will update in the future with an update 🤙🏼 No matter what I look forward to ordering again

3 shrimp are very low grade jade green (mostly clear) and 3 are blue dreams, almost dark enough to be considered black rose shrimp. Packaged well and came in a day early. It's common practice to add a few extra shrimp in case something happens during the shopping process but not in this case. I am disappointed the seller added the dark blue culls of the jade greens into my order. I understand that's a normal offspring variant of the jade green but customers should only be receiving green shrimp when ordering green shrimp.

I was very nervous about ordering because I'm on the gulf coast and they ship from the northwest. Everything came in the mail alive in 2 days and over 12 hours later nothing has died yet. Shrimp look awesome, I ordered 6 green and 6 black. Just know like they said in their description, the first pic is their best green shrimp. That being said, the shrimp I got were green but not solid green and I'm fine with that because they noted that in the description. I'm very happy and would have no problem buying more from them.