Help with identifying these shrimp

[Camreyon Eckhardt]

Ok so I've had ghost and I believe cherries before, and I'm just getting into the shrimp hobby, and I got a tank off kijiji.CA I didn't look to close when I got it, it had "cherries" only, but after getting a light going I see that I have reddy orange, with orange strips and clear with red stripes... Now I recall the cherries are red, lol but if someone can help me identify what these are as I was going to put the cherries and I'm getting bark / light blue tiger shrimp (I've looked into it all and these two can go together with out hybreeding) but I'm not sure what these are so I don't want to get good grade of tigers and ruin my stock with a mishap...

[Dscheng]

Cherry Red Shrimp, seem like Sakura grade. You might want to know more about RCS grading on the sticky thread.

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...re-Red-Shrimps

[Urban Aquaria]

Yeah, neocaridina shrimps (aka cherry shrimps/RCS) come in many colors, patterns and grades... they are all the same species, you just happen to have gotten a bunch of various colors and grades in that tank.

[Camreyon Eckhardt]

Ok that did help, thank you. I'm going to leave them and see what I get most my females are the high grade sakura/ low grade fire red. But that might bleed out the color right? All all being cherry's they can go with the blue tigers I'm getting, that was quite interesting to figure out. Now I haven't looked to far into it yet, but if I were to mix say cherry and yellow shrimp what might they come out as? And I know they could be brown, I'm just wondering this is how most the breeds were made? Like the blue bolts its all so intresting

[Urban Aquaria]

Yeah, if you want to improve the coloration and grade of those existing shrimps, then just have to remove/cull the lower grades ones and only allow the higher grade ones to breed. You'll have to keep culling them regularly to gradually improve the overall breeding quality.

RCS can be kept with blue tigers, they are different species so will not interbreed.

If you mix the red cherry shrimps with yellow cherry shrimps (assuming the yellow ones are also neocaridina species), then that will tend to re-mix their genes and variable colors and grades in their offspring, so it'll muddle their quality over time.

The various colors and patterns of shrimps are developed over multiple generations though line breeding... basically selecting only the same colors and breeding them together, culling and separating them, then breeding the same colors again. As this process is repeated and generations of shrimps are bred this way, their specific colors become more and more stable.