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I have tens of Caridina cf. babulti in my tank. However, most of them are brownish rather than green. They are around 3 months old and some of them are carrying eggs. I can not tell difference between the male (those do not carry eggs) or female (those do carry eggs), there seems no apparent color d...

I believe the food play an important role. I did not feed my shrimp before, they were all feeding on the algae in the tank. When the baby shrimp grows up to about 3/4 inch, they are still pale. I am sure some pale shrmps are female for they are carrying "yellow saddle" in the necks. After ...

I never feed them. There are a lot of algae in the planted tank. I am wondering whether it is enough for shrimps.

My baby cherry shrimps are almost 2 months old, but they are all colorless. And some of them have the "yellow yolk", so I think they are females. But they are also colorless. The only red color is some small red spots on their bodies. How long will they get the red color?

After the eggs are "carried around", how long will the baby shrimp hatch?

I never feed my shrimps, they are always eating the algae growing in the tank. But I am afraid these are not enough.
What food do you feed your shrimps? Especially cherry shrimps.

And I have a question about the cherry shrimp.
How long will it be between the appearance of the "yellow saddle" and the appearance of eggs?
And how long will the eggs be hatched?

So what I think of related to the color variation is water condition and food, if they are belonging to the same species.

Interesting. I bought 4 from LFS, one is reddish, the other three are brownish. All such "assorted shrimp" sold at that store are reddish or brownish, and they seem happy. My shrimps are carrying eggs all, if they are sick or stressed, I can not image they can breed.

When I looked at the green shrimps' picture posted by amanda_h, I though I got a reddish and some brownish Green Shrimp. The color variation does confuse me. I have a question about the cherry shrimp. How long will it be between the appearance of the "yellow saddle" and the appearance of e...

Got two pictures. This is the reddish one, others look same to it but in the color of brown.

The side view:
http://www.pbase.com/cherryshrimp/image/37503533

The top view:
http://www.pbase.com/cherryshrimp/image/37503552

Hei, mine is very similar to the photo at the bottom.

Where can I find the pic of Rainbow shrimp, I want to compare them.
Thanks.

Can not get better pictures now, seems I should invest on a better camera. I will keep on finding chance to get a better picture.

I never feed my shrimps, they are all eating the algae in the tank. Finally got some picturs of these shrimps, but not clear. They never show good poses. :( http://www.pbase.com/cherryshrimp/image/37478941 One brownish shrimp http://www.pbase.com/cherryshrimp/image/37478970 The reddish shrimp, I bel...