Simply Red Cherry Shrimp

**frostbyte88** · 5th Jul 2011, 15:54

Wow, your cherries have really reddened up! They look great! Congrats!

**jeffteo** · 5th Jul 2011, 17:02

Originally Posted by frostbyte88

Wow, your cherries have really reddened up! They look great! Congrats!

Thanks.

Initially I only left with 4 normal Cherry with 3 female and 1 male. With some Sakuras additions from a kind bro now I have this.

**chumzhujun** · 5th Jul 2011, 17:26

Originally Posted by jeffteo

Then will keep the RCS in the Nano. CRS will really need to wait till I got the budget and time for another tank. See how ba...
Is CRS cheap when get directly from LFS?

It will be More expensive from the lfs as they sell their shrimp as a job. You should look out for.post in the wts section.its cheaper.

**chris168** · 5th Jul 2011, 17:54

Beautiful RCS... Solid and nice clour.

**jeffteo** · 5th Jul 2011, 18:56

Originally Posted by chumzhujun

It will be More expensive from the lfs as they sell their shrimp as a job. You should look out for.post in the wts section.its cheaper.

Wow that question was quite sometime ago and I am a regular in WTS now. It really depends. At times you will find cheap and nice shrimps in LFS. Like what I got in my CRS tank.

**longcheeze** · 5th Jul 2011, 19:59

Very nice cherries, good job.
Thanks for sharing.

**jeffteo** · 28th Jul 2011, 12:18

Growing... More.. More...

**Goldfisher** · 30th Jul 2011, 09:59

Hi bro,

I am also breeding rcs. I got myself some neon tetras, Otto and horned nerite.

Question. How u all distinguish a male rcs and female rcs? Thanks bros!

**xXXXx13** · 30th Jul 2011, 12:19

Originally Posted by Goldfisher

Hi bro,

Question. How u all distinguish a male rcs and female rcs? Thanks bros!

Hi, the males are smaller and slender while the females are bigger with a saddle like on its back, kind of yellowish. The picture above clearly shows one on the left. Happy shrimping. Cheers

**jeffteo** · 31st Jul 2011, 01:03

Originally Posted by Goldfisher

Hi bro,

I am also breeding rcs. I got myself some neon tetras, Otto and horned nerite.

Question. How u all distinguish a male rcs and female rcs? Thanks bros!

If you want to breed, remove the neon tetras to give the baby shrimplets higher chance of survival. If not i believe almost all of the shrimplets will be eaten by the tetra. Only Oto is 100% safe with shrimps.

**Goldfisher** · 31st Jul 2011, 11:23

Hi jeft,

I read about tetra eating all the small offsprings. I was contemplating very hard whether buy tetras as I am worried on my depleting colony of shrimplets.

However, I found out after researching many posts online, the shrimplets can survive when they are given enough hiding space. I have seen my shrimplets evading the tetras real fast as the zoom around my tank in flashes. My female shrimp just give birth to like 10+ about 2 weeks ago. Now they grew bigger and painted with my color of red. I guess their size now really cannot fit into my tetras mouth.

In another aspect, tetras can be used to control the shrimplets colony as I do not want my small tank to be over flooded with shrimps

**jeffteo** · 31st Jul 2011, 12:37

Yes. if with enough hiding place and since you don't mind then it is ok. Usually breeder will not keep them together. Anyway RCS spawn faster than any other shrimp so should not be a real issue.

**frostbyte88** · 31st Jul 2011, 13:14

If you want to keep fish with shrimp, boraras are a good choice. From what one seen in my tank, they've never attacked a shrimplet. That's from what I've seen.

**Goldfisher** · 31st Jul 2011, 13:49

I researched some fishes like cory, raspora (or only boraras?), otto. Any bros know any more?

**Goldfisher** · 31st Jul 2011, 13:50

Just curious, is my shrimp red as compared to anyone of you here?

Should this shrimp be classified as RCS or Fire Red? I got them from Polyart and they labelled it RCS and it was not that red that time I bought!!