Orange Cherry Shrimp

[joydiv]

Just to share, different colour morph of the cherry shrimps

Orange cherry





Yellow cherry

[beetroot]

So Orange Cherry is different from Orange Shrimp? Bred from Cherry?

I know Yellow Shrimp is bred from the Cherry family, but not Orange Shrimp.

[joydiv]

I think there are 2 differnet variants of orange shrimp. the one available is not breed from Cherries but from Indonesia.

[silane]

Do you mean they are wild caught?

[theanswerseeker]

nice.. i like.. the orange is cool but don't know if they have the sakura version of orange cherry..

[YiDaLi]

Will it grow more red at a later stage?

[joydiv]

The orange shrimp from what i know is called sunkist here. They are wild collected according the LFS guy here.

The orange variant of the cherry is farm bred.

So far it's still orange, but i think as it grows the orange might fade. I also notice cherries in high ph tank tend to be more orange than red. Can't confirm though.

[Fuzzy]

Polyart at C328 has Orange Shrimp available, I just saw last night, Didn't take note of pricing but I think they were $1.00 each. Quite pronounced orange, but more on the translucent side, look quite nice.

But if they're wild caught I don't think I want to try.

[Spid]

Thanks for sharing bro.

Neocardina can have many color morphs. However to make it stable it will take space and time.

I have taken one orange morph from my sakura colony which are neocardinas quite some time ago.

[joydiv]

I am not sure where the ones sold at polyart are from. They could be orange cherries, but if you mix them with the others, I guess the colours will be washed out in the next few generation.

Yup I agree... and I think need to have a few to start.

[Fuzzy]

I'm tempted to buy 10 to put in with my red cherries and see what happens, heh. I'll ask if they're bred or wild caught when I go down next.

[Quixotic]

I am not sure where the ones sold at polyart are from. They could be orange cherries, but if you mix them with the others, I guess the colours will be washed out in the next few generation.

Yup I agree... and I think need to have a few to start.

I am not so sure that they are Neocaridina heteropoda "orange". As far as I am aware, they are not because there hasn't been any reports of breeding at all that I know of (not overseas, not locally). If they are indeed N. heteropoda "orange", then this doesn't quite make sense. I would be happy to be proven wrong if someone could point me to a successful breeding report.

I have also not heard of N. heteropoda "orange" in the market until now. All that I know is that the orange shrimp in the market are Caridina cf. propinqua, so I am rather confused now. Therefore, I have a suspicion that the "orange" cherry shrimp that joydiv (not meaning to doubt you) mentioned are actually C. cf. propinqua (I can't differentiate between Neocaridina and Caridina for my life).

Can this be verifiable just by looking at pictures? Experts?

One other thing that I have read elsewhere that there is indeed another orange shrimp, which apparently comes from Sulawesi. Unfortunately, there is little information of this and no suggested identified species. But it seems to point to it being the "sunkist" shrimp that joydiv has been talking about.

Well, the problem with shrimps is that sometimes colour (or to an extent, pictures) cannot be used to definitely determine some of the shrimp species as they are variable, and with the use of common/trade names, no wonder we can really get confused at times.

Note: For those uninitiated, N. heteropoda is the species of shrimp from which cherry shrimp is line bred from. Hence, "orange" cherry shrimps (mentioned by joydiv) are actually N. heteropoda (or a different species, or even hybrids).

[Spid]

I am not so sure that they are Neocaridina heteropoda "orange". As far as I am aware, they are not because there hasn't been any reports of breeding at all that I know of (not overseas, not locally). If they are indeed N. heteropoda "orange", then this doesn't quite make sense. I would be happy to be proven wrong if someone could point me to a successful breeding report.

I have also not heard of N. heteropoda "orange" in the market until now. All that I know is that the orange shrimp in the market are Caridina cf. propinqua, so I am rather confused now. Therefore, I have a suspicion that the "orange" cherry shrimp that joydiv (not meaning to doubt you) mentioned are actually C. cf. propinqua (I can't differentiate between Neocaridina and Caridina for my life).

Can this be verifiable just by looking at pictures? Experts?

One other thing that I have read elsewhere that there is indeed another orange shrimp, which apparently comes from Sulawesi. Unfortunately, there is little information of this and no suggested identified species. But it seems to point to it being the "sunkist" shrimp that joydiv has been talking about.

Well, the problem with shrimps is that sometimes colour (or to an extent, pictures) cannot be used to definitely determine some of the shrimp species as they are variable, and with the use of common/trade names, no wonder we can really get confused at times.

Note: For those uninitiated, N. heteropoda is the species of shrimp from which cherry shrimp is line bred from. Hence, "orange" cherry shrimps (mentioned by joydiv) are actually N. heteropoda (or a different species, or even hybrids).

Those sold in LFS label as "orange shrimps" are definetly not Neocaridina heteropoda. But those shrimps posted by bro joydiv are and they seemed to me like males.

LFS "orange shrimps" cannot be bred in our normal freshwater as their offsprings are larvaes and not shrimplets. What species they belong to Im not too sure.

As for sulawesi "orange", I think they should be similar to what those orange shrimps sold at LFS, since those orange shrimps do come from Indonesia too.

[silane]

I am not so sure that they are Neocaridina heteropoda "orange". As far as I am aware, they are not because there hasn't been any reports of breeding at all that I know of (not overseas, not locally). If they are indeed N. heteropoda "orange", then this doesn't quite make sense. I would be happy to be proven wrong if someone could point me to a successful breeding report.

I have also not heard of N. heteropoda "orange" in the market until now. All that I know is that the orange shrimp in the market are Caridina cf. propinqua, so I am rather confused now. Therefore, I have a suspicion that the "orange" cherry shrimp that joydiv (not meaning to doubt you) mentioned are actually C. cf. propinqua (I can't differentiate between Neocaridina and Caridina for my life).

Can this be verifiable just by looking at pictures? Experts?

One other thing that I have read elsewhere that there is indeed another orange shrimp, which apparently comes from Sulawesi. Unfortunately, there is little information of this and no suggested identified species. But it seems to point to it being the "sunkist" shrimp that joydiv has been talking about.

Well, the problem with shrimps is that sometimes colour (or to an extent, pictures) cannot be used to definitely determine some of the shrimp species as they are variable, and with the use of common/trade names, no wonder we can really get confused at times.

Note: For those uninitiated, N. heteropoda is the species of shrimp from which cherry shrimp is line bred from. Hence, "orange" cherry shrimps (mentioned by joydiv) are actually N. heteropoda (or a different species, or even hybrids).

The orange shrimp that is wildcaught from Indoesia is Caridina cf. propinqua, its trade name are Sunset, Sunkits or Orange shrimps. They look different of jovdiv's first pic.

[Fuzzy]

I checked with one of the uncles at Polyart. The Orange Shrimp they are selling are a species of Tiger Shrimp.

$1.00 a piece, about 1.5cm length most of them.

[silane]

I checked with one of the uncles at Polyart. The Orange Shrimp they are selling are a species of Tiger Shrimp.

$1.00 a piece, about 1.5cm length most of them.

They know what they are talking or you know what they mean?

[joydiv]

There should be at least two different types, species? of orange shrimps from what I know. I will try to get some more from "wild caught" sources and try to get a picture.

The picture I posted is diffinitely N. heteropoda, as that's the only type in my tank.

And I dont think orange shrimps has anything to do with tigers.

[69efan69]

i got this orange shrimp from polyart few weeks back. very nice looking shrimp to me.

with cherries:

[Quixotic]

The trouble with trade names.

[Fuzzy]

They know what they are talking or you know what they mean?

Just repeating what they told me, I doubt they are tiger shrimp, but that's the official line from the shop.

They are the ones in 69efan69's picture though.