RCS wild color

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. This is one of two females I have. Some people call them "Natty Browns", "Black" or "Chocolate" Cherries. From what I've read and seen, I think they're the wild strain of the Red Cherry Shrimp. You can just barely see the golden brown stripe down the middle of her back like Cherries get. Sometimes they're very red, especially if you turn the lights on at night after the tank has been dark a while. Sometimes they're light brown. Usually they're just like the picture during the day.



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Well this is what Ive found in my tank. More green then brown. Is it a green shrimp that got mixed in my shipment or a color morph.

Fishscale, I have no idea. You would probably do better asking your LFS since even if someone here says their LFS takes them, that's no guarantee yours will.


Retoid, the wild form of cherry will cross with RCS and yellow cherries. There may be more they will cross with, but I don't have enough experience or knowledge to say which. I do know they won't cross with a shrimp of another genus, such as Crystal Reds, Wood Shrimp or Amanos.



If I were you, Kunerd, I'd definitely separate it and the others that look like it. I wouldn't get rid of them, though ~ I'd keep breeding them and see what comes of it. That's exactly how red cherries and other different colors of cherry shrimp came about ~ someone noticed a morph, a shrimp of a different color, in their tank and bred them out. Of course stabilizing the strain takes many generations through which you'll have to keep a close eye on the tank, culling any reds out and keeping two lines of them in two separate tanks so you can interbreed later and avoid genetic problems. If you have any questions about that, let me know ~ I'd be glad to tell you all I know about that.

If you don't have enough room for another shrimp-only tank or two and/or don't want to mess with them, I'll trade you a bunch of young Red Cherries for them. And maybe sweeten the deal with first dibs on a few if you want some back once I get them to reproduce (IF I can get them to reproduce AND they end up being something interesting)? Let me know. Regardless, I wouldn't get rid of them until I knew what they'd produce in future generations. You never know what will come of them unless you try it.

[/URL][/IMG]its a wild form, get it out asap and put it in another tank or more and more less than red shrimp will start showing up. they are sold as feeders here and i use them in my planted tank only because i cant get rid of them. they will vary in color from clear, to tiger striped to yellow, reddish or even a chocolate brown. color is NOT permanent like a RCS and will change with the environment the shrimp is in at the time. its not a Yellow shrimp like those being sold now, that color is permanent like the Red form. they are all the same species though so make sure they dont mix or you'll enventually end up with all wild form in the future.