Hey I’ve just bought some Fire Red Shrimp I’ve heard so many different things, are they there own Shrimp or are they a grade of Cherry Shrimp. And some tips to breeding them would be helpful!
They are a grade of cherry shrimp, neocaridina davidi
Keep your water parameters stable. Add live plants. Wide variety of food including plant and animal protein. Some form of surface disturbance like an air stone.
Happy shrimp keeping!
Word to the wise: baby shrimplets are incredibly tiny - nearly microscopic!. You could easy clean the shrimp tank and suck up all the babies without even knowing it - especially if they are clear/white.
I’m 60, and seeing them without glasses requires strong light and patience, so I don’t throw the babies out with the old bathwater, so to speak! I use a clear turkey baster to examine every draw of silt from the tank, to find those babies!
Good luck to you! >o_o<
Good advice! I don’t vacuum my sand with the shrimp in it. I will stir it up a touch when I do water changes but I keep my siphon tube only without the vac end and keep it close to the water line with my thumb over it. I remove the water much slower and do smaller changes. Helps keep them from getting lost. I also use a white bucket for that tank so I can check it well. I have various cherry shrimp grades in my tank. I think a couple would be called some of the fancier names because they are more solid red. Same with my blues. Having the higher grade of adults doesn’t guarantee higher grade color in the babies. You can get higher grade coloring in babies than the parents and vice versa. If you want to keep the colors vibrant you will want to stick to all one color line, cull out less than ideal shrimp, and bring in new adults every once in a while to keep expanding the bloodline. You can just let them do their thing and have multiple shades too it’s your choice. There are always people in local free fish groups willing to trade things for shrimp of all grades so culling them that way is nice