Id This Shrimp Please

stanleo

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This is driving me nuts. I got this shrimp with the batch of RCS that I started with in my shrimp tank. When I got him he was really small so I thought that when he grew he would start turning red. There is nothing red about him and he is the same size as the biggest RCS in the tank. His morphology is that of a RCS but his color is mottled dark green and brown. I saw a pick online of RCS in its wild form which is very similar but I am still not sure. Its driving me crazy, can someone please ID this shrimp? I have included some picks.
 
 

 
 
i believe it is just the same kind of shrimp,but this is their natural colour,but i may be wrong
 
It looks like the beginnings of a chocolate cherry shrimp. If you want to keep it I would put it in another tank, otherwise its colour/ geneswill corrupt your red cherry shrimp genes and before you know if they have all the offspring have reverted to nearly wild type.
 

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