Purple Cherry Shrimp?

[mUAr_cHEe]

Right after I topped fresh water into my tank, all my cherry shrimps came out of hiding and starts scurrying around the tank. I assume that is a good sign as I have read before of how fauna will get excited whenever there is a water change as it is similar to a raining situation in their natural enviroment. Some species will even get into spawning mode.

One of the cherry shrimps caught my eye. It is purple in colour! I had a bacteria infection in my tank some time ago but I noticed that the situation has already stablised. At first I thought it was dead but when I tried to pick it up with my tweezers, it started scurrying away!

I just did some research via Google and it is mentioned that the purple gene of cherry shrimps are still present in some. So apparently this is normal and I should be glad to get the 'mutant'. As the data is quite old, I am not sure if this is still accurate. Are any of you here familiar with this situation or have the same thing happen to you as well?

[meepokman]

That's so cool! Post a pic?

[mUAr_cHEe]

I did not managed to get a good shot of it. I will try again later if I managed to spot it.

[Urban Aquaria]

I've spotted purplish RCS in my tanks before too... it also depends on lighting, some of them appear purplish or very dark red in different lighting. I guess it's just another color variant that they throw out at random, not sure if anyone has successfully line bred and stabilized that type of coloration yet though.

[Lone shrimp]

Hi, do you still have purple cherries? My wife is interested. And I wanted to surprise her