Red Cherry Shrimp

[fm1978]

They are fabulous little creatures, aren't they! I have 8 shrimplets from Fire Reds and I'm so looking forward to seeing what their colouring is like when they mature!

 

[bigcheed]

i bought my cherrys from two different sources. some are regular red cherry and are still a little transparent in strong light. the others i bought from my local maidenhead. they were just listed as cherry shrimp. there is a very noticeable colour difference though. so i looked them up online and found that these ones were fire red sakura shrimp. they are not transparent at all. they are a very bright solid red. they are however the same basic red strain so if they do cross breed the end result is still red shrimp. i did have to do a little research to find this out. i was only passing on info i found out from other sources.

 

[ech0o]

i get it now, either way i will always be keeping colors other than red so will probably never get to keep the red ones.   want to do a tank with sulawesi cardinals and yellow cherrys, i LOVE those cardinals!

 

[Liv15]

So can I keep the blue ones with the red ones? I don't care if they breed, the eggs probably won't hatch and if they do the fish will eat them. And I read online you can keep 10 cherries per gallon, is this for shrimp only tanks, or does it take into account the fish bioload as well?

 

[ech0o]

I believe they give live birth, the females will carry the brood until they are a little bigger, then release them.  You can keep blue and red together just fine if you are not worried about or trying to have them reproduce in your tank as the babies will be regular cherries.  They are estimating the added bioload to any tank, with other fish or without.  So if you had 10 shrimp in a tank, it would account for a gallon of the water in that tank.