Mystery Shrimp Breed

[eugenecj]

Hi guys, need some help. I have Golden Back, Sakura and Orange shrimp in my tank; somehow I seems to have "breeded" a new shrimp. Anyone can help identify?

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[Naraki]

Looks like they breed between variant. Are all 3 in the same tank?

[KilliNewbie]

Both golden back and sakura belongs to the neo family. Ofc it'll crossbreed and give you shrimplets that are the color of wild shrimps

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[eugenecj]

Looks like they breed between variant. Are all 3 in the same tank?

Yup, they are in the same tank.

[eugenecj]

Both golden back and sakura belongs to the neo family. Ofc it'll crossbreed and give you shrimplets that are the color of wild shrimps

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Sorry, wild shrimp meaning?

[Naraki]

Yup, they are in the same tank.

Yeah. You'll get these colours when you breed two colour of the same species. It's said that someone found these Shrimps in the wild with the same colour you shown. After breeding them several times, he found that they have slight red pigmentation, thus he selected them and breed only the reddest and vibrant out of all. Becoming what you'll usually see as cherry shrimp. What I see is she is currently berried. Could probably mate with cherry,orange,yellow. They could still give out colours but. The chances of dull,Brown colour is greater.

[eugenecj]

Yeah. You'll get these colours when you breed two colour of the same species. It's said that someone found these Shrimps in the wild with the same colour you shown. After breeding them several times, he found that they have slight red pigmentation, thus he selected them and breed only the reddest and vibrant out of all. Becoming what you'll usually see as cherry shrimp. What I see is she is currently berried. Could probably mate with cherry,orange,yellow. They could still give out colours but. The chances of dull,Brown colour is greater.

Thanks mate! So.. What breed are these? Still under the same family just different color I assume?

[Naraki]

Thanks mate! So.. What breed are these? Still under the same family just different color I assume?

Same breed. Different colour

Cherry is Neocaridina Heteropoda var. Red.

The one you have shown is Neocaridina Heteropoda "wild"

[Urban Aquaria]

All those red, yellow and orange shimps you have are selectively bred from the original wild transparent/dark ones (they are all the same species)... when you mix the different colors together, the selective genes are mixed/diluted and you now get the original wild transparent/dark color back again.

If you continue to keep all those colored ones together and breed them, eventually the tank will be dominated by the wild type shrimps with transparent/dark colors, basically progressively "down-grading" most of the offspring back into wild type.

[lucasjiang]

Just to add on a bit, for the wild variant, whether it becomes transparent or a more brownish colour depends on the colours of the tank environment. I had ever kept some in a tank filled with peat moss and it yieded totally brown shrimp with a cream stripe.

[KilliNewbie]

Loving brown shrimps. Dun get offenced, I feed clear cull shrimps to my cpo lol

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[eugenecj]

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found this shrimp in my tank too, it seems like an accident breed similar to this; http://www.planetinverts.com/Blue%20Pearl%20Shrimp.html

what advice?

[Naraki]

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found this shrimp in my tank too, it seems like an accident breed similar to this; http://www.planetinverts.com/Blue%20Pearl%20Shrimp.html

what advice?

Not sure if its the camera or the lighting. But on the picture its transparent.
Reference

[magpie]

Does it look like pearl blue shrimp?