Shrimp Pictures

Good photos, the second shrimp looks almost orange when compared to the first.

I have a red cherry shrimpery, and 10 amanos in my 125l community. It is true that the cherries look better, but the amanos more than make up for it with their antics and industrious activity. The females from my original batch, are now the biggest things in the tank. They will happily try and compete with the boisterous glowlight danios for food. They would comfortably steal a pellet from a cory. If they can get to "easier" fish food, then the algae becomes second best, otherwise they are cleaning machines, and rarely seem to stop.

However, I think it is important to have a good number, and a mixture of sizes, if, for example, you need algae cleaning from smaller or thinner leaves.
                                                  Skittler

Hello Fiona,

That's a useful website, thanks.

My guess is that the "grading" of RCS is just a marketing tool used by breeders when they have produced a "redder" shrimp than before. If you look at some of the websites, you can see various "new" names selling at very high prices.

It's only going to be a short while until the "painted fire red sakura bloody mary pillar box whatever" becomes the standard ...... at standard prices.

My 4 recent additions have dark red bodies and legs, (which the original ones, bought 10 months ago, certainly didn't). They were marked in the LFS as "Red Cherry Shrimps" at 4 for £10.

                                       Skittler

I'd quite like a few of those "painted fire red sakura bloody mary pillar box whatever" shrimp to go into a tank with the shoal of shenanigans from the other thread. I think that would made a lovely display.
I'd just need to add a snail pooping Olaf singing "let it go" (similar to the one Paddy has), and the "farting naked bottom" air bubbler from MA, and that would be me done. My collection would be complete.