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Are these crystals or what?
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:50 am
by kingkano
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
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:36 am
by Bradimus
Looks like a cherry to me.
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:54 am
by kingkano
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
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:41 am
by Mustafa
No other pic needed. These are Red Cherries. There is quite a bit of variety in this color morph of Neocaridina denticulata sinensis.
Mustafa
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:51 am
by kingkano
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
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:10 am
by ts168
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?
Re: Are these crystals or what?
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:54 am
by rs79
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.
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:33 am
by kingkano
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!
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:35 am
by Shrimpmania
wow.. nice looking shrimp . for a while i realli tot it was a crystal
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:26 am
by vicker03
the deep red cherry are normally the female and those pale looking one are male in general.
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:16 am
by Shrimpmania
Looks like a red cherry to me