Are these crystals or what?

kingkano · Post by **kingkano** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:50 am

Was sold these ones as 'cherry' shrimp lol which they definitely do not seem to be. Are they crystals or something??? ANybody have a clue?

Also, what is 'the best' algae eating shrimp.... I heard that cherry's are pretty close??

cheers

ken

Bradimus · Post by **Bradimus** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:36 am

Looks like a cherry to me.

kingkano · Post by **kingkano** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:54 am

hmmm really? are there different kinds of cherry then? coz my other ones are bright red all over. These ones just have kinda red/brown stripes. will try get another better pic in a bit

Post by **Mustafa** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:41 am

No other pic needed. These are Red Cherries. There is quite a bit of variety in this color morph of Neocaridina denticulata sinensis.

Mustafa

kingkano · Post by **kingkano** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:51 am

ok my lfs didnt lie haha. they said they ordered me red cherries. Man these really do look way way diff to my others. they are nowhere near as bright red to me

Thanks for the tip Mustafa. Still shocks me lol.

I prefer the really red ones myself. not sure how I can go about getting those tho. oh well. all still good

thanks

ken

ts168 · Post by **ts168** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:10 am

The picture is a real cherry shrimp.

Infact Cherry shrimp will start to lose it color when it been having too many generation of inbreed.

I do not know why people like to add "Red" to the cherry shrimp?

rs79 · Post by **rs79** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:54 am

kingkano wrote:Also, what is 'the best' algae eating shrimp..ken

I have cherry, ammano, tiger, taiwan blue, red nose, bulblebee, sand, weird longnose, and weird brown shrimp. The ammanos are the best algae eaters I've found. The red nosed shrimp are a close second, the rest a distant third. The ammanos are so much bigger than the rest they just eat more. None of them seem to eat black/staghorn/hell algae (a red algae) but they all devour any green or brown algae.

kingkano · Post by **kingkano** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:33 am

I take it all back. They have really coloured up since being in the tank and are now a lovely reddy colour.

Cheers guys for the ID.

What do you mean add red to the cherry shrimp? DO you mean to the name? I guess its just human, they are red and cherrys are red, it just kinda sets in your mind!

Shrimpmania · Post by **Shrimpmania** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:35 am

wow.. nice looking shrimp . for a while i realli tot it was a crystal

vicker03 · Post by **vicker03** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:26 am

the deep red cherry are normally the female and those pale looking one are male in general.

Shrimpmania · Post by **Shrimpmania** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:16 am

Looks like a red cherry to me

Petshrimp.com Discussion Forum

Are these crystals or what?

Are these crystals or what?

Re: Are these crystals or what?