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Well today while looking through my over populated 20L I noticed an odd Cherry shrimp that was much whiter than regular males. Is this an albino?

I managed to snap a quick picture, I didn't have time to pull out the tripod so it's really blurry:


Regular male is on the right. I suspect inbreeding is the likely culprit?

There will always be some variation, especially after several or many generations of unregulated breeding. You'll typically have some that are dark red and some that are pale.

However, the shrimp can also express their coloration depending of enironmental factors. I have seen a very large but pale colored female shrimp become incredibly dark red over a few weeks.

Usually RCS males show less red colouration than females so chances are you're looking at a male shrimp.

Shrimp will start to become whiter and cloudy looking when they are sick or on their way out.

I know this is a really really old thread, but I think I have an albino too. It looks like Raul's, but has even less red. The odd thing is, it has orange eyes...Does anyone know of a shrimp species with orange eyes? (I got it from All About Fish in a tank of Amanos and Cherries and it definitely doesn't have Amano markings.)

I don't know about albino, but I have a tank of clear cherry shrimp, I guess they aren't cherry shrimp any more though. Both male & female are clear like ghost shrimp.

This is why I like this hobby, it is full of surprises wether you are expecting it or not. So are the clear shrimp breeding true badflash?

It depends on the food.
The shrimp that were only eating algea in the tank (no other food of any kind provided) were very pale to clear.

TKD

Neonshrimp wrote: This is why I like this hobby, it is full of surprises wether you are expecting it or not. So are the clear shrimp breeding true badflash?

So far the clears are breeding about 90% true as are the greens. The greens are doing about 75% true and are throwing a few browns and oranges.

badflash

Are you talking about RSC ?
Green, Orange,Brown ?

I can not wait, to see pictures of those.

John

You can hardly call them Red Cherry Shrimp if they are green, orange or brown, but yes these are Neocaridina denticulata. I got a bad lot of juvies off of ebay and some turned out to be wild browns. I pulled the brown females out, but had not way of figuring out what brown males were.

The offspring turned out to be clear, orange, red, brown and green. The greens seem to breed the truest, but they still have some red & brown offspring. The oranges seem to throw some reds. Once I have the greens set up in their new tank I'll take some pics.

I am looking forward to that Post.

John

OK, here is a pic of my green cherry shrimp (GCS).

That is a interesting looking Shrimp.

She is nice and big, and it looks , as if you will be having more little ones to sort out in the near furture.

They are, alot clearer than the ones I have. "Wild Type".
Mine have more of what I like to call "Tiger Stripes".

Do they have, the line down there backs ?

badflash
Thank You for sharing the photo.

John

It is pretty green We are going to have to call them "Green Berry Shrimp" GBS

Thanks again.

I have not noticed any sort of line on them. They seem to be more active than the RCS. I like the Berry part. How about Berry Green Shrimp? BGS?

The cool part right now is both males & females are green, so now I can concentrate on getting stronger color. They breed just as easily as cherries too. This strain might succeed in the wild. When they sit on java moss they just disapear.