what shrimp is this?

[kross]

these came along with a bag of supposingly 100 malayans that i bought from a lfs..... turned out that i got around 60pcs of malayan and the rest are these....

[Polypterus]

Hello !
You are sure, that it's not the male one and the female one are having the colour ?
Florian

[TKD]

Hi,

It it me or do they look like washed out cherries...

TKD

[Mustafa]

These shrimp are not Red Cherries. The above shrimp is female and the shrimp below is a male (or an immature female). No idea what they are...never seen them before. They are most likely some type of Caridina native to your area.

[Ljung]

these came along with a bag of supposingly 100 malayans that i bought from a lfs..... turned out that i got around 60pcs of malayan and the rest are these....

we found a new species?
can name as krosshrimp?

[gnome]

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!! This looks like the "odd" specimen I found on Sunday! I visited the LFS where I usually get my shrimp and I looked in their "algae-eating shrimp" container (which was littered with a lot of dead beasties) and saw this ONE shrimp that looked neither like a Malayan nor an Amano. I'd never even seen it in photos, so I decided to take it. Incidentally, they didn't even charge me for it.

Mine had that goofy bug-eyed look to it indicative of a male . JK. But yeah - mine resembles the one in the male photo. At first I thought it might be a really small "red spotted shrimp" but it didn't have the long arm and big pincers. In fact, the pincers are even smaller than what I see on an Amano shrimp of the same size.

This is cool. I hope it gets identified soon so we know what we have. In the photo of the male, is that a bloodworm it's eating?

-Naomi