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    Another bite of the cherry ..... shrimp

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    System Control & Engineering has new stock of yamatos and cherry shrimp - the cherries are quite large, almost the size of small yamatos. Already see people snapping them up.

    (BTW, should the plural of yamato be yamatos or yamatoes???)

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    Can't resist... bad joke time.

    What do you call red yamatos (other then dead) since the word 'cherry' is taken?

    Tomato Shrimps.
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    budak, what's their pricing like?

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    cherries a $1.50 per bite i think. yamatoe probably $1. thewy also have a lot of nice plants now: toninas, rotalas, echinos, hygrophilas, ferns, mosses, hairgreas, crinum, crypts, small riccia, najas....

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    cherries a $1.50 per bite i think. yamatoe probably $1. thewy also have a lot of nice plants now: toninas, rotalas, echinos, hygrophilas, ferns, mosses, hairgreas, crinum, crypts, small riccia, najas....
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    Don't mind me say but their pricing is for cherry is hay wire... yamatos the size you are discribing is also too much.

    No offence just a comment.

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    I don't necessary agree. These are the largest cherries I've ever seen. And I didn't describe the size of the yamatoes. No offence either, but I think I recognise quality (or value) when I see it.

    Someone once said that people know everything about prices, and nothing about value.

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    I don't necessary agree. These are the largest cherries I've ever seen. And I didn't describe the size of the yamatoes. No offence either, but I think I recognise quality (or value) when I see it.

    Someone once said that people know everything about prices, and nothing about value.
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    Sorry read your previous msg wrongly... anyway cherry also should not be at 1.50/- and only large I mean real large yamatos should be 1.00/-.

    Anyway agree with the quality thing but anyway got my quality shrimps(at least to me) at cheaper prices too.

    Anyway saw a shop selling malayans at 3 for 1.00/-. Well thats way too much. Can be bought for 100 for 9.00/-. Whats the quality difference that makes it 3-4 times the price.

    Not try to fight out the price here just commenting. Shall be my last msg here to avoid misunderstanding.

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    I'm so jealous! I don't know US$ -> Singapore$, but I paid $12.99 (US$) for three cherry shrimp last weekend. In 72 hours, they all died, PLUS two of my three Yamatos I've had for a long time died . I think there might have been traces of pesticide on the new plant I bought at the same time as the cherries. This store also sells Yamatos at $10.99 for three or thereabouts. They do discount both varieties further if you buy five (e.g. $19.99 for five cherry shrimp). Anyway, the red cherry shrimp are very new in the hobby, here (in the US). I hope the store keeps stocking them so I can try again in a few weeks (after I've gotten all traces of contaminant out of my tank). Very expensive! At least I know to quarantine new plants from now on. []

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    The conversion rate from USD to Singapore dollar is about 1:1.8 meaning US$1 = s$1.8 roughly... so now you can be even more jealous... I've always felt that Singapore has one of the lowest prices in the world for aquatic creatures.
    Allen

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    Eeeep! I'm in the wrong country! Or the wrong hobby. No, definitely wrong country [] ...

    It seems that the cherries are fairly easy to breed, unlike the Yamatos. Hopefully, we won't be limited to importation. Maybe (that's a big "maybe&quot we'll eventually see the price of cherries come down to under the Yamatos. The less-patient (like me) will have to dish out the big bucks, I guess... Or move .

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    Now, who want to setup a shop in US? Can be millionaire soon!

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