Wild neocaridina shrimp...

[Magnum Man]

so I currently have red, blue, orange, and yellow neocaridina shrimp, all breeding in their own tanks, separated by color...

so today I was wondering what actual wild neocaridina look like???

I found these tank bred, but wild type... will keep digging a little more... looks like the color variety was there, but the color density, was bred into them???

Wild Form Neocaridina Shrimp (Neocaridina davidi), Tank-Bred!

If you’re new to keeping freshwater dwarf shrimp, the Wild Form Neocaridina Shrimp (Neocaridina davidi) is the easiest to keep. This species has been naturally developed into multiple red (cherry), yellow, blue, orange, green, maroon, dark brown, black, and white forms with multiple variations...

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[BigDog]

Please keep use updated on how they are breeding

With there color changes

Hopefully there colors will come back to normal in a few weeks

 

[Essjay]

These were born in my tank. I bought a batch of mixed coloured Neos and after a few months started seeing a lot of this type, which I perhaps naively assumed were wild coloured.

 

[BigDog]

Very nice looking shrimp

How are they doing. ?

 

[Essjay]

The shrimps are thriving. It is interesting that I'm now seeing a few different coloured shrimp - black, yellow, orange - together with the "wild" coloured. And some of ones like my photos ^ have a faint pinkish hue and others a faint greenish hue.


These shrimps are in my main tank; I bought them for a bit of interest and didn't mind what colour I ended up with.

 

[MattW]

I also bought a mixed group of coloured shrimp similar to @Essjay
After a few months the "wild types" are the most noticeable

 

[Ceez]

I want to add shrimp to my breeding tanks but my temps are too high. I run between 82⁰-86⁰

 

[MaloK]

And in between, you have some space ones that might pop.

Like this wonderful Bloody Pumpkin Green Jelly Rili...

 

[Magnum Man]

@Ceez ... I've heard they will breed and thrive at those temperatures, and they actually grow faster, because their metabolism is sped up, with the the warmer temps, the down fall, is their metabolism is sped up, and they don't live as long

 

[seangee]

@MattW @Essjay
Out of curiosity what percentage of coloured shrimp do you end up with after a few generations. My red rilis are now quite low quality with quite a lot of completely transparent shrimp. But i do get some that are clearly red rilis and others with varying degrees and shades of red. So I guess if you want to breed for colour, pattern (or just to sell) you need to be pretty ruthless with your culls. I have neither the inclination nor the time . But I do want to add more colour and perhaps variety to the tank. I have been toying with the idea of getting caradina in summer because you can mix colours without reverting to wild type. But I'm wondering if just adding different coloured neos would be a better option. IMO the wild type is quite attractive and of course the behaviour is the same (I waste hours of my week just watching them ), but I would still like the little spalshes of colour. 10-20% would be enough

 

[Magnum Man]

my cherries started with 2 different breeding colony's of 8 ( from different suppliers ) in an attempt to have a large a gene pool as possible... in around a year, I probably have over a 100... I've not seen any that look wild... I do get a few now and then, that have less color density... I should use those as feeders, as I'd suspect when those get to breeding age, they would throw more diversity into the group... my yellow, orange, and blue varieties are just started, but since they are all neos, I'd suspect the same.... I've heard that bloody mary's red is some how different than the cherry's red, I'd be curious if they are more color stable, or a cross with them might be more color stable???

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[MaloK]

In a little over one year, I think I had something like 6 or 7 generations.

Nice solid color Bloody and Pumpkins are still a good % of the group.

But the Rilis branched to a panoply of different patterns.

I've heard that bloody mary's red is some how different than the cherry's red

Yes they are. Even the form of their body is slightly different. The females have a much larger second pleuron in some case that becomes really over size.

And they also have more babies at each litter, Maybe because their larger pleuron enable them to hold more eggs at the same time.

I'm not sure why, but they have a different shape compared to the others...

 

[Essjay]

I got my mixed bunch in November 2023. After a few months I was getting a lot of 'wild' coloured shrimp, but now I'm seeing batches of different colours suddenly appear. A few months ago yellow ones appeared, a couple of months ago a few black (or very dark red/brown), then in the last few weeks a lot of orange.

The thing with plants like Bolbitis heudeloti in the tank it's impossible to count them, I just notice that there's a new colour juvenile on the substrate or a plant leaf.

 

[MaloK]

I'm experiencing something like @Essjay. While there's different wild type in the mix, there's always batches of solid colours that where never there before, that appears. I had dark red/brown too a couple months ago.

 

[Essjay]

Here are a few photos I've just taken, some of them are blurred, some are partly hidden by plants but they show the colours I could see during a few minutes' watching.




Edit to add -
This tank is in the dining room and I was setting the table for dinner when I spotted this shrimp. It's a young one on a leaf right at the back of the tank, but you can make out the colours.