Cherry Shrimp

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The Shrimp Farm is pleased to announce a permanently lowered price on it's FIRE RED CHERRY SHRIMP!! We've gone from $89.99 for 10....down to $69.99 for 10 Fire Red Adults.
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For the last few months I have had some Red Cherry Shrimp in an aquarium that was intended for Crystal Red Shrimp. I set it up with Aqua Soil Amazonia and quite a few plants and mosses. I keep the pH right around 6.0 and have some interesting observations for the Red Cherries!
Observations [...]

Fun with Nikon!

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

Helpful Resources

• Red Cherry Shrimp
• Red Cherry Shrimp Pictures

 

3 groups of 10 Cherry Shrimp will be available to my blog readers as of Monday April 27th.  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The cherry shrimp (or cherry red shrimp) has been recently described as Neocaridina heteropoda var. red. (Formally Neocaridina denticulata sinensis var. red) This comes as no surprise to those who are active in freshwater aquarium shrimp community. Very little is know scientifically about these shrimp, and as they become more popular in the aquarium hobby [...]