Are these Neocaridina Heteropoda?

This looks exactly like a few of the (Not So) cherry shrimp that are starting to appear in my tank. they are more orange than red and have yellow eyes instead of black.

 

Yes, Although I haven't been able to isolate it and stablize it yet. Mine are more yellow-red in my opinion but they are pretty orange too. It depends on the individual. A while back I did a major cull, by mistake and another one via a loach, so my population was cut back by 99% or so. With that these now are becoming more common and I finally have both a good looking male and a good looking female to show off :hihi:. These are the brightest ones I've had over the years, occasionally I got the yellower male and stared trying to get more of those and then more yellowish females have been coming up too.

I figure three years or so until it is set in stone.
-Andrew

 

Or more! Great Job! Maybe in the future we can trade oranges to potentially diversify the genetics while keeping the colors intact.

 

Maybe, but it may mess things up, I have no idea! Sounds fun!

Very cool. I've got a yellow-orange male that looks like yours among my cherries... would love to isolate him and try to breed selectively, but every time I go to catch him he disappears LOL (it's easy to lose him when he's just one shrimp in a 20gal tank full of 'em, as I'm sure many of you know). He only seems to appear when my net is out of reach.

Anyway, "blood orange" sounds like a good name for this variant. It's an apt description, what with the reddish speckles over an orange background.

It's interesting how all these neat variations on ordinary cherry shrimp keep popping up. Makes me wonder what strains the hobby could develop from the other Neo. species.

If you can isolate him I'll take him, or maybe entocraig will. It has taken me a while and the huge cull made the gene pool and the number of shrimp smaller so it has been easier.

Good to know the name sounds good, it was a long and arduous task that also took years of work:icon_lol:

Awesome job man, I'll have to hit you up in a couple of years when you are a famous shrimp breeder

Haha me famous shrimp breeder? Yeah right. I'll probably be one of those terrible people who just keeps them to himself and occasionally lets people know what is in the vault.

I remember a while ago, someone had their CRS genetics mutate and what happened was that the order of red and white flipped in the DNA so that where it was supposed to be red it was white and vice versa. He just kept them to himself they weren't for sale etc. Now they are calling it red whine shrimp and selling them for crazy prices. I guarantee that person is laughing at how silly everyone is.

Lets get some photos of others with these types of Blood Orange shrimp and see if we can collectively figure out how to make them more common.

-Andrew

 

Very cool. I've got a yellow-orange male that looks like yours among my cherries... would love to isolate him and try to breed selectively, but every time I go to catch him he disappears LOL (it's easy to lose him when he's just one shrimp in a 20gal tank full of 'em, as I'm sure many of you know). He only seems to appear when my net is out of reach.

Anyway, "blood orange" sounds like a good name for this variant. It's an apt description, what with the reddish speckles over an orange background.

It's interesting how all these neat variations on ordinary cherry shrimp keep popping up. Makes me wonder what strains the hobby could develop from the other Neo. species.

 

Awesome job man, I'll have to hit you up in a couple of years when you are a famous shrimp breeder

 

OK heres how to do it Send me all of them for free and ill go from there

 

I dunno about that one...

Maybe if you send me a few gold bars for free we can work something out that I'll send you the shrimp for free. Or maybe wampum?

-Andrew

 

i believe there was someone looking for some orange crs recently. I'm pretty sure you are not selling due to them not breeding true but they might want some of your orange

 

I had orange caridinia in the past actually, WC obviously. They were EXTREMELY low grade black diamonds, mostly just orange. So that may be something to look into.

I think someone here has Orange Caridinia is it DK?

I'm not sure my orange are for sale

-Andrew