Pure Red Line Collection

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Pictures of nursery:

[WiNd08]

Just beautiful ! would love to have a PRL tank one day

[downxxer]

get some now. hehe

[kendrick_86]

Been a while since i updated:

Some background for the many people who have asked me,

The term Pure Red Line (PRL) is actually referring to the gene pool which has not been crossed with golden/snow white shrimp or any other shrimp for that matter. As a result, the genes, particularly the red and whiteness are very stable resulting in a higher grade shrimp in terms of thickness of colour.

Below are sample group pictures taken from my tank. These shrimps that i have originated from Japan by renowned Shrimp Breeder Munechika Fish Farm aka MFF. These offsprings are well accustomed to Singapore waters and are breeding well.

Pure Red Line CRS does not mean they have reds. In Japan, some breeders focus on the white, even entire legs being white are PRL as gene is undiluted, Benibachi have some very nice Whites on his PRL.

Contrary to common beliefs, the coloration of the prl legs, esp red is hardly visible when shrimp is small, unless viewed under very high magnification. In most cases, they only become strikingly visible close to 1cm onwards.

bro thanks for this detailed description. much more useful then what i have seen here. hope it is sufficient to clarify doubts among peeps here. thanks again. nice collection.

up for you, top grade breeder.

[anakkucing]

Been a while since i updated:

Some background for the many people who have asked me,

The term Pure Red Line (PRL) is actually referring to the gene pool which has not been crossed with golden/snow white shrimp or any other shrimp for that matter. As a result, the genes, particularly the red and whiteness are very stable resulting in a higher grade shrimp in terms of thickness of colour.

Below are sample group pictures taken from my tank. These shrimps that i have originated from Japan by renowned Shrimp Breeder Munechika Fish Farm aka MFF. These offsprings are well accustomed to Singapore waters and are breeding well.

Pure Red Line CRS does not mean they have reds. In Japan, some breeders focus on the white, even entire legs being white are PRL as gene is undiluted, Benibachi have some very nice Whites on his PRL.

Contrary to common beliefs, the coloration of the prl legs, esp red is hardly visible when shrimp is small, unless viewed under very high magnification. In most cases, they only become strikingly visible close to 1cm onwards.

May I ask, what is the percentage of your PRL's offsprings to have red/white legs colour after reach adulthood? Will some of them have transparent legs?

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bro thanks for this detailed description. much more useful then what i have seen here. hope it is sufficient to clarify doubts among peeps here. thanks again. nice collection.

up for you, top grade breeder.

Thanks Ken, hope the info will clear up the doubts

May I ask, what is the percentage of your PRL's offsprings to have red/white legs colour after reach adulthood? Will some of them have transparent legs?

Hi anakkucing, transparent legs do occur once in a while, but very rarely will it be totally transparent. With good genes and through selective breeding, the % of transparency is very low

[spinex]

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I saw in Japanese website, their Pure Red Line has mosura, do you have? They have those super thick shell, it really stand out from normal crs.

I think if PRL does notlook different from normal CRS, it does not worth for collection. Partial red legs is common among normal crs too.

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Hi spinex,

Mosura for prl is very rare. Yes i do have a few pieces over a few breeding cycles. Will try to showcase them once they are bigger for their photoshoot.

If you put the normal crs together with prl, there are obvious differences, the red hue is different for one and i don't think our normal crs would have such high success of red legs for that matter. Normal crs do have very nice coloration but its not the entire batch. PRL have stable genes, meaning every batch of offsprings are more or less consistent in coloration

[Navanod]

Pardon my confusion but I thought snow white and golden CRS crossing only occurred in recent years. Prior to that, all CRS are considered PRL? So in essence, after so called "improving" the CRS stocks by adding white and golden genes, we now value the original strain again? Came full circle? Or did the breeders realized that hybrids are now common and its time to bring out the old original with a mark up?

[anakkucing]

I am also confused about this PRL.. Correct me if I'm wrong, from what I read in few forums, Snow white/golden is used to get better pattern not better colour... And without crossing with snow white/golden the chance of getting nice mosura with head pattern is none or very small. So maybe the trend now is thick colour and not pattern

[eviltrain]

yap, the trend now is more of colour, not pattern. its like you can almost see them "glow in the dark" when you switch off the lights.

[kendrick_86]

i agree. at least personally, it is more about having quality colors. however, many people still come to me wanting flowerhead or pattern biased crs. sadly, i already diverted my vision towards better color quality..

[marle]

I remember in the past when Crs was vband and tigertooth it made a big impact on hobbyists. Those were the times when hobbyists chase after better patterns, and it was then when I felt the shrimping scene was at it's most fun period. People would be comparing how big the tigertooth was and how acute the angle of the vband!

Now for Crs specifically, we have probably reached a peak in pattern development in flowerhead ( I will be very happy to be proven wrong here) but of course there's still king kong, wine red etc. Somehow or rather the general feel of keeping Crs just feels different compared to the past.

Maybe as an individual, i find it more satisfying to see fellow hobbyists achieveing new patterns never achieved before compared to more solid colours. The fact that patterns has already reached it's peak leaves me little to look forward to for Crs. But don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy the sight of solid colored thick white Crs too.

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yap, the trend now is more of colour, not pattern. its like you can almost see them "glow in the dark" when you switch off the lights.

i agree. at least personally, it is more about having quality colors. however, many people still come to me wanting flowerhead or pattern biased crs. sadly, i already diverted my vision towards better color quality..

Yes, of late, many breeders are focusing on coloration. Pure lines have been around but very costly in the past.

I remember in the past when Crs was vband and tigertooth it made a big impact on hobbyists. Those were the times when hobbyists chase after better patterns, and it was then when I felt the shrimping scene was at it's most fun period. People would be comparing how big the tigertooth was and how acute the angle of the vband!

Now for Crs specifically, we have probably reached a peak in pattern development in flowerhead ( I will be very happy to be proven wrong here) but of course there's still king kong, wine red etc. Somehow or rather the general feel of keeping Crs just feels different compared to the past.

Maybe as an individual, i find it more satisfying to see fellow hobbyists achieveing new patterns never achieved before compared to more solid colours. The fact that patterns has already reached it's peak leaves me little to look forward to for Crs. But don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy the sight of solid colored thick white Crs too.

PRL have very rare mosura percentage. Perhaps sometime down the road, there could be flowers amongst the hinos! But the baseline is still for enjoyment and passion

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Bro Cross,

Your shrimp are beautiful,,you really professional on keeping shrimps