But one day they were replaced by the drab L.boggessi,pale,no saddle mark and eggs either olive green or tan.Years passed and peppermints were always boggessi,never again a single wurdemanni showed in the local market.In several visits to Miami LFS I also failed to find wurdemanni,Peppers were invariably boggessi.
Then captive bred shrimps from ORA came,again boggessi!.And lastly stocks were imported from different sources in Asia. viewtopic.php?f=201&t=10878
I imagined they had to be something different,but no,they ended being boggessi,obviously captive bred in Asia

That was beyond any logic to me;why should anybody,like ORA or Asian breeders choose for their captive breeding program a nondescript species like boggessi instead of the much nicer wurdemanni?

Somebody suggested (I think it was Kathy) that may be boggessi were easier to culture. Our local importer had the same explanation.
I disagreed.I had raised several shrimp species and was quite sure that all peppermints had to be about the same,fairly easy to raise.
And yet I was wrong

I got a couple of them and had them grow and they began spawning.Surprisingly the eggs were not green but pink!So they were not wurdemanni.A closer examination proved that they are L.ankeri,based in the number of rostral spines and pereiopod segments.I checked with the importer and no,the shrimp were not CB from ORA but wild stock from Haiti.
And another surprise was to come;L.ankeri larvae are not easy to raise like boggessi.I lost many batches exactly like past experiences with debelius or amboinensis.These zoea show long larval time with mortality taking its toll until all are lost.Only with extreme care I managed to raise some few.The first post larva settled at 49 dah.With boggessi more than a hundred settle by 30 dph.
So all peppermint shrimps are not the same and this explains the exclusive presence of boggessi in the market.