Red Fire Shrimp male or female

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Byeiksar
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Red Fire Shrimp male or female

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Hi guys,

Can you please help me to identity my shrimp if it is male or female .Thanks
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Re: Red Fire Shrimp male or female

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I think it's female.
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Re: Red Fire Shrimp male or female

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:( Seem like I am in bad luck ,I bought 5 and it turned out to be all females then ,the rest 4 have already eggs.Btw can they interbreed with cherry shrimps? I have 10 more CRS mixed with them
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Re: Red Fire Shrimp male or female

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if im not mistaken, fire reds are just really red cherrys? i think they will breed together.
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Re: Red Fire Shrimp male or female

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At last ,they r fertilized and now i see little shrimps :-D ,,didnt expect to be that small
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Re: Red Fire Shrimp male or female

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Congrats! You got lucky that you had berried females. Yes, most shrimp being sold in stores are imported females. Hard to find males of any species.