Red Cherry Shrimp Pictures

Fun with Nikon!

Here are a few pictures of some Red Cherry Shrimp that I just took, enjoy!

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• Red Cherry Shrimp
• Red Cherry Shrimp Pictures

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30 Cherry Shrimp Availible! Subscriber Special!

3 groups of 10 Cherry Shrimp will be available to my blog readers as of Monday April 27^th.  The Cherry Shrimp will be $25.00 for 10.

Please email me if you are interested in buying the shrimp and I will send you an invoice and ship the shrimp out on Monday.

 I will post on this blog again when the 30 shrimp are sold out!

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- Cherry Shrimp

- Breeding Cherry Shrimp

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Cherry Shrimp sold out!

As of today all of the Cherry Shrimp are sold out!  BUT WAIT (I always wanted to say that) there is good news.  Over the last week there has been large amounts of shrimp hatching.

 
These are 1-3 day old shrimp and there are hundreds of them all over the aquarium.  They should be ready to sell in a few short weeks!

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- Cherry Shrimp 

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Cherry Shrimp Breeding Progress

It has been a few months since I transferred my Cherry Shrimp population to their new larger aquarium and the population is beginning to explode.  It seems that almost every female is berried!

 
Here is the basic set up:
40-Gallon Breeder
ADA Aquasoil II substrate
Hang on back filter with 2 sponge prefilters
A few stem plants (Rotolla sp.)
PH stays around 7.0-7.2

I feed the shrimp everyday with a verity of foods, and they always react quickly to the food! 

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- Cherry Shrimp
- The Softer Side of Breeding Neocaridina heteropoda

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The many faces of Neocaridina heteropoda

Selective breeding has shown its effects for many years in the tropical fish hobby, and now the dwarf shrimp hobby is starting to really reap its benefits.  The Tiger Shrimp (Caridina sp.) is bred in 3 color forms, wild type, blue, and even black.  The Neocaridina cf. zhangjiajiensis has been selectively bred from its wild color to include a white morph and a blue morph.  The most popular shrimp in the dwarf shrimp hobby, the Cherry Shrimp (Neocaridina heteropoda var. red) is no exception.

The Neocaridina heteropoda is now being selectively bred to display its natural color patterns as well as 2 other color variations.

Wild Type Neocaridina heteropoda:

 
There is the ever-popular Cherry Shrimp:

The newest of the group, the Yellow Shrimp:

 
With these examples it is exciting to think where they hobby is going.  There are many shrimp that are still unknown to the typical Dwarf Shrimp hobbyist and if only a fraction of those shrimp have the ability to be selectively bred from amazing colors like the Neocaridina heteropoda, the hobby is in for a quite exciting future.

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