Red Cherry Shrimp ( Neocaridina denticulata sinensis)

lauraleellbp

My colony of RCS quickly became my favorite tank! These little guys are beautiful, prolific, and always very active. I can just sit and watch them for hours, they're always running around doing something! Great algae-eaters, too.

forddna

72 - 80 Celsius??? LOL

david10072

Burns

Ozymandias

ya sorry about that i think i was reading Fahrenheit when i was doing this and just transfered it with out looking lol

bulrush

Some populations may or may not eat algae. Mine sure don't. They appear to pick at the algae but I think mine are eating the microfauna that grows on the glass.

SleepySin

I had bought a few of these a couple months back and before they could make themselves at home, my female bettas had a big dinner. The only tell-tale sign was the red-colored poo coming out of them.

I then managed to save the last one and relocate it to a breeder trap in another tank where it seemed content for a couple of weeks. Then it escape/disappear for a few weeks. Then it was found squished underneath the filter floss of our HOB filter.

I took a chance with it living in a tank with my male betta. For a good couple of weeks, they co-existed peacefully until he, too, became red-colored fish poo.

Kolkri

I love these little guys but not easy to keep. All of mine just slowely died.

Bodhisattva

Got 3 of these yesterday. One known dead so far. Can't find the other 2. Water is probably too warm @ 87.5F? Cycling tank for eventual Discus habitat.

Vladdy

I got some of these. Very active little critters. They like to clean the plants.

nerv

Had mine for quite a while in my 30g. Betta never bothers them. They like to pick food off of the drift wood and play in the java moss alot. I keep them at 80F. They started out kinda bland but after a week they got very very red

sajata

I picked up 6 RCS and 2 Amamo in late June, on a whim, then took off for a 2 week vacation. While on vacation I started looking more deeply into the RCS because I too were mesmerized by them. As I read I realized that I had committed them to their Doom. I have 3 yoyo loaches and everything I read said they loved RCS. To my surprise when I got home is had 5 of the 6 intact and both Amano's were still around. It is now late August and I have about 12 RCS in 4 size groups so I assume 4 different spawnings.