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nick11380 wrote:Most of my female chrerry shrimp are nice and red. A couple of them are almost super red. But I have one female with saddle that is just as clear and colorless as the males. Could this colorless female be the wild Neocaridina denticulata sinensis?

Just because a red cherry shrimp is pale does not mean it's a "wild" N. d. sinensis. The only ones that you can say for sure are wild type are ones that can actually be traced to the wild. Red RCS won't all of a sudden throw a "wild type" shrimp.