[Fresh fish]

Wondering if this is a cherry shrimp or maybe bloody mary? the tank they came from had red rili, cherry, bloody mary and tiger shrimps, she has alot of eggs, hopefully she keeps them! been 24hours so hopefully! as i just got her along with 24 others, i know 2 tigers , maybe a rili in there too, will they interbreed and then what might i expect from babies?

 

[Opare]

Looks like a Cherry in the photo, Bloody Mary's have SUPER intense red colouration. Then again, it could just be the photo or that it's dulled from moving tanks.


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[Fresh fish]

pic was taken with my phone, they are pretty red, heres another pic

 

[latchdan]

Definitely berried

 

[Fresh fish]

Whats this on? excuse the molted shell, was from one of my older shrimp

Bump: Is this a tiger? they are so small, lol

 

[dukydaf]

All look like RCS, males and young shrimps have spotty and less intense coloration.

 

[dzega]

all RCS.

 

[bsherwood]

looks like RC to me

 

[Cmeister]

You have a cute cherry shrimp pair

 

[Zoidburg]

Agreed, all RCS. If the different colors breed, then you may get brown/natural wild color... except the Tigers are Caridinas and will not breed with Neocaridinas (the cherries/rilis). Hopefully, the Tigers are opposite sex so you can get more of them.



From my understanding, Bloody Marys are like a red jewel or gem and kind of see-through. High grade red cherries on the other hand (yours appear to be Sakuras) have a more red-ish orange coloration, or opaque. They have a "painted" look to them.


Bloody Marys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkrt5Zzli9c



I have a 20g tank full of cherries, a couple of yellows and a handful of what may be bloody marys sold as cherries. I'm interested in seeing what the offspring may look like. Most of them for now will be cherries but the yellow female is berried and should have babies within 2 weeks? And don't know who she mated with.

 

[Yukiharu]

After a lot of looking around and asking I think the difference between bloody mary and cherry shrimp is as zoidburg said a jewel-like red as opposed to an opaque, red shell. I believe that this is because the flesh of the bloody mary shrimp is red.

Bloody Mary also come from the chocolate line, making their red coloration genetically different from that of cherries.

 

[Fresh fish]

ok, thanks guys for the input! the berried one still has the eggs so i think shes ok, now to wait, its exciting, as i dont what she bred with either, like i said in the tank they came from had red rili and bloody mary, the guy said he had a cross sakura/tiger, thats why i asked what hte clear one might be as there is a couple, they have no red on them at all, as you can see in this pic

 

[Zoidburg]

The brown one looks like a wild type cherry. They may be sold as "feeder shrimp" or just regular "algae eating shrimp".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASlYi2mhydw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhk5iHs8Vs

Wild Type Neocaridina
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevensquid/14868476177
Wet Pet's Borneo: Neocaridina Heteropoda




I wonder what the supposed sakura/tiger looks like...

 

[Yukiharu]

Unfortunately it's impossible to cross cherry shrimp with tigers, as one is neocaridina and the other is caridina. They are different species.

 

[Zoidburg]

More specifically, they are different genera and not closely enough to hybridize. Some species within the same genera can hybridize.

Will These Shrimp Interbreed? .:. Information on keepign Freshwater Aquarium Shrimp Species in the same Aquarium without creating a Hybrid Shrimp
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/88-shrimp-other-invertebrates/596330-tibee-shrimp.html
Project Tibee - Revealed - Shrimpy Daddy
Crystal Red Shrimp: Tibee Shrimp



Searching through threads, apparently Rili x Cherry results in possibly lower grade Rili's.

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/88-shrimp-other-invertebrates/187121-cherry-rili-crossbreed.html

 

[Fresh fish]

thanks guy! lots to learn about shrimp! I suppose as long as i can keep them alive and happy ill be doing good! now to check out the links posted above