What Is Your Favorite Shrimp Strand?

[l_l_l]

I think my favorite strand would be the Carbon Blue Rili!
But there are so many I'm not sure!
 

 

[GetItSahn]

There is one on AquaBid called a dream blue velvet i think?
It's one of the best looking shrimp I've ever seen. I'm a sucker for OEBT and Sulawesi Cardinals also 

 

[l_l_l]

Yeah! dream blue velvet are really really beautiful! But I heard they don't stay blue for long

 

[Baccus]

If the blue velvet was breed true, then it will hold its blue and be stunning. The other factor that can really change and alter a shrimps colour is the pH and gH of the water they are living in. I have seen this first hand when a friend sent me a cull black cherry shrimp, and in my tanks is became more of a chocolate colour rather than the black it had been in the other persons tank.

 

[fluttermoth]

I'm not aware that blue velvet shrimp loose their colour.

They're a darker colour variation of the blue jelly shrimp, Neocaridina davidi, I think, which is what I have.

Personally, I think the blue velvets are a bit too bright, but I've been wondering about investing in a few to see if I can get a more medium blue shrimp.

I'm not sure if shrimp genetics work that way though? Or would I just get mix of light and dark individuals? Is either light or dark dominant or recessive? Anyone know or like to take a guess?

 

[l_l_l]

From what I have read so far, the dark trait of the blue shrimp come from the chocolate mutation, and do not breed true.
After a while they will revert to the stronger side- the chocolate color..
 
I'd really like to get a dark blue shrimp or even better, a red rili blue body shrimp,
 

 
Ohhh wow.
Did not see one who bred true tho.

 

[Baccus]

I am not really sure of how the genetics work for making darking and paler shrimp except for culling out the undesired ones and only breeding the desired until they breed true to the colour you want.
I do know somebody who might know more about the breeding potential but he is on an Australian Shrimp Forum, he actually is one of the major breeders and shrimp morph developers in Australia.