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Blue Bolt Starter Pack

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Shrimp Starter Pack - Blue Bolts

Food, Leaves and Net Not Included in this Pack

You will receive ten (10) Regular Grade Blue Bolts and two (2) Deep Blue Bolts. We sell all Taiwan Bee shrimp at about half an inch. The smaller they are, the easier it is to acclimate them to a new aquarium. The shrimp will reach breeding age within a month of receiving them.  

Taiwan Bees were considered some of the hardest to keep and breed shrimp in the past. Between 2009 and 2014, hobbyists were able to stabilize the Taiwan bee shrimp line to have more stability. By adding in new genetic pools, the Taiwan bee shrimp is much easier to keep and breed in current days. For a hobbyist ready to take their hobby to the next level, these shrimp are a great place to start.

Mixing Taiwan Bees

It is great to be aware of the fact that all Taiwan Bee shrimp can be kept in the same tank with out risk of hybridizing. All Taiwan Bee shrimp share similar genetic lines so they will produce shrimp that look similar to the parents. Red King Kongs, Red Pandas, Black King King Kongs, Black Pandas and Blue Bolts can all be kept in the same aquarium. 

The following parameters are how we keep our Taiwan Bees:

Tank Parameters

  • Ph:5.5 to 6.7
  • Gh: 3 to 6
  • Kh:  0 to 1
  • TDS: 90 to 120
  • Temp: 68 to 72

Tank Equipment

  • Filter: Matten Filter
  • Substrate: Brightwell Rio Escuro or Cafe Soil, ADA Amazonia
  • Water: RO/DI Water remineralized with Salty Shrimp Gh+
  • Decor: Malaysian Driftwood, Java Moss and Indian Almond Leaves
  • 5 stars: 71 (93%)
  • 4 stars: 2 (3%)
  • 3 stars: 1 (1%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 2 (3%)
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Christian Tinio
Beautiful coloration

These blue bolt shrimps are amazing to watch. After drip acclimating them for a couple hours, they were exploring the tank and settled in nicely in their new home. Certainly can’t wait for them to have little babies 🙌

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Daniel Tharp-Etter
Amazing color!

These shrimp have great color especially the Deep Blues! They all came active and healthy and acclimated very quickly! Thanks Faith for the great packing job!!

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J.D.
Perfect

They love the new tank.

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Nicole Rodriguez
Blue bolts

All have great color would highly recommend

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Finn Kellam
Very healthy and good colors

This is my second week with the blue bolts. When they first came in, all the regular ones looked grayish white and the deep blues were faint colored. There was one DOA regular BB but there were extras to account for the loss. Other than one or two of them, they all have colored up really nicely.

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Alan Blanchard
Regular Blue bolt / deep blue bolt

The blue bolts came in exceptionally active and healthy. Straight out of the box they were still deep Blue the way they are in this picture. I ordered the starter pack which had 11 regular blue bolts and three deep blue bolts so I received one extra of each type, thank you flip aquatics. I've had them for 2 weeks and they are doing extremely well and no shrimp deaths thus far! This order included several other variety of shrimp and none of them have been lost thus far which says a lot for flip aquatics. He takes the big losses in the first 30 days and then sends us the healthy vigorous shrimp! This is why I purchased most of my shrimp from Rob aka flip aquatics. Definitely recommend the starter pack so you actually get two different varieties of blue bolts in one purchase!

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Bryan Lutz
Very nice pack!

Received 4 extra regular grades when ordering 2 extra super blues in addition to this pack. The super blues are of course rarer and very striking, but the regular blue bolts are beautiful in their own right and stick out even more in my aquascape. They come very tiny, but most have shed already once in the last 1.5 weeks and are noticeably bigger now. Looking forward to having a self-sustaining colony someday!

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Giancarlos Pages
Second buy

I bought this starter pack about a month ago and I just got more in I’m so extremely proud of how beautiful my new shrimps are they look extremely beautiful and high quality

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Natalie
Great customer service! A++ shrimps

Got my little guys today, no DOA and all as expected, plus a few extra! They are loving their new home (After drip acclimating of course!). Great customer service, and the packaging showed a lot of care for shipping live animals. Will buy from again!

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Michael
Blue bolt starter kit

Im a first time shrimp keeper. Bought a blue bolt starter kit total got 14 shrimps during pre black Fridays sales It has been a week NONE DIE. Shrimps are very active.. I will definitely buy again Evan tho the price cost more than my LFS. I had brought from a local fish store in the past and it all died within a week.. keep up the good work guys.

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Denise Dalby
Received in 2 days!

Order shipped Monday, and arrived in CA Wednesday. All blue bolts were alive and well. Even received 2 extra! Super happy with purchase!

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Chris Birrell
Hoping they settle in

I’ve bought a wide variety from Flip over the past few months. These were my first Caridina purchase. Received 12 blue bolts and 2 deep blues. 1 blue bolt was on its way out when they arrived. Lost 2 the first evening and another the second evening... that I can tell Running 71-72°, Fluval shrimp Stratum @ 6.4pH, GH 5, KH 0, TDS 115, 40gal breeder with Malaysian Trumpet Snails, Malaysian driftwood, almond leaves, alder cones, Java moss, a few crypts, some water sprite, dragon stone and a Matten filter.

Hopefully tomorrow morning there are no losses. A few of the blue bolts have amazing bright white with a deep blue head. Both deep blues are still alive, they are pretty small but appear to have great color.

Hey Chris,
Please let us know if you lose more. We are here to help! Sorry for the deaths. We will work with you to make sure you have a good start to colony. Thank you for trusting in us a your preferred one stop shop for shrimp!

Rob

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Frank

Amazing so far, no issues whatsoever. Even the non deep blues have great coloration!!

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Richard Randolph
Stunning Blue Bolts

They all arrived in excellent shape including extras. They all started eating immediately after being released. There’s a reason Flip Aquatics has such a great reputation!

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CeCelia Barnard
Great quality!

All Blue Bolt shrimp received alive, healthy, in a timely manner and beautiful! I will definitely be ordering all of my shrimp from Flip Aquatics from now on.

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Hung Duong
Blue Bolt starter pack

The shrimps arrived look very healthy nice color and have 2 extra.
I will place an order again.

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adam fellhoelter
Blue bolts

This is the second time I've ordered a Blue bolt pack they both came in perfect condition and after weeks of having them, not a single lose! Still new at keeping carodina species but so far so much easier than neos for me!

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Rachel Ramirez
Simply beautiful.

I've bought blue bolts before from another online retailer and they died pretty fast. I decided to try again through Flip Aquatics and I'm so glad I did. A few ended up not making it in my tank after about a week, but that's because my water parameters are a bit different (pH 7.0). The others are doing really well and growing! I've never seen blue bolts in person, any larger than babies so I'm excited at seeing the colors and watching them grow. Hopefully they'll be happy with to breed. I will definitely buy again from this shop.

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Jake Sherman
Arrived Dead

All shrimp arrived dead. I submitted an email to [****]. I am awaiting a refund.

Hey Jake,

I am so sorry for your losses. We 100% guarantee our shrimp and will issue you a refund right away. Sorry for the rough order. Please let me know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Rob

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Brandon McLeod
Beautiful!

Great colors and they sent extra! So far all have lived!

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Brandon McLeod

Blue Bolt Starter Pack