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I have seen some splotched shrimp. But nothing with a defined stripe like she had. Unfortunately, I am thinning out my cherry population, and with her gone now I may rehome the rest and take that tank down completely. The landlord (who is wonderful by the way) realized the volume of water I have sit...

Just letting you folks know that the little lady died a couple of days ago. I'm not sure why, but assume that there was something wrong with her, thus the color mutation. She never spawned to my knowledge. She was well and swimming about, eating and playing in the floating plants at night, and I fou...

Congratulations! I, too, think of java moss as the miracle spawning drug. I have even had bloodfin fry survive a community tank because of java moss. I think most aquatic life sees it and instantly wants to start reproducing...
Take care,
Mary.

I just reread mustafa's article on mutating cherries again and can't help but wonder if my original 6 were hybrids. :?: None of them were adults and they came from a breeder not a shop, but I wonder...? Sorry... Genetics fascinates me. This is fascinating me. I REALLY want to set up a second tank de...

Neon, I'll answer your questions and then try to patiently wait and observe for awhile. It is definitely a new thing that has happened. As I've said, I've had this colony of cherries for a couple of years. I haven't added any. I have a bunch that live in one of my 55 gallon community aquariums. Now ...

Interesting link. Thanks. There's no breaks though. You can't tell in the picture but it's clear shiny shell like the first picture I posted of the striped girl. Perhaps the shell is thin though? :?: It wouldn't surprise me if the water is not hard enough. I'll keep on trying to get good pictures.

Okay, I threw a bunch of algae wafers into the tank last night to draw as many shrimp out as I could. You can see the perfectly striped girl towards the upper left hand corner. I have drawn arrows towards three others with odd coloring. Could this be associated with molting instead of being the patt...

I still haven't separated her and some males. However, I think she may be berried now and while doing waterchanges yesterday it appears that there are others with odd coloration but more mottled opposed to having a defined stripe, as other's have described seeing on occasion. Thanks for all of your ...

I had a red claw shrimp that may have just been extremely predatorial, but he picked off half of my neon tetra population as they slept. Finally caught him "red-clawed" snipping the tail end off of one so he was promptly removed from the tank and taken back to the LFS. I agree with badflas...

Here's a couple additional pics I took of her last night. Still haven't moved her into her own digs with some fellas... rcssnail.jpg rcssnail2.jpg rcssnail3.jpg The snail she was riding on is a geriatric spixi that has an acid burned shell from low ph in a different tank. I'm interested in those env...

Perfect color on the rest of the shrimp. Note female in my avatar. My population seems to be pretty healthy and happy and keep to pure reds.
Take care,
Mary.

I just read this fascinating article by mustafa. http://www.petshrimp.com/articles/redcherryshrimpmyth.html This was my initial wonder when I got a good look at this gal. Could there have been hybrid genes in one of my initial six shrimp that I got two years ago that has taken this long to noticeabl...

Thanks guys. I misworded my subject line. I know it will always be a cherry but was actually asking if they could have color mutations and look like crystal reds. Well, this is just too neat to let go. I think I see in her future a 5 gallon set up for her and some guy friends and see if I see the mu...

Subject says it all. I have had an active colony of cherry shrimp for over two years. The only other shrimp I have added to my tanks were three pinochio shrimp. And no new shrimp into the grow out tank at all. That's my breeding ground for the cherries, and occasional praecox fry or other fry I mana...

I call my cherry shrimp, cherry shrimp is that okay?
Take care,
Mary.