Common name: Red Cherry, Cherry Shrimp, Fire shrimp
Scientific name: Neocaridina heteropoda var. red
Size: 2.5 to 3 cm or 1 to 1.2 inch
Water temperature: 15 to 28°C or 59 to 82°F
Water parameters: pH 6.5 to 7.5
Origin: Taiwan
High or low breeding form: high
A well loved species for its color, hardiness and prolificness. Cherry shrimps make a good beginner shrimps in a planted tank or delicated shrimp tank. They reproduce at the age of three months with the size of about 2cm. They are very easy to breed and can become a problem in small tanks because of overcrowding.
Variations of the red are normal, it varies from solid red to wine red or brownish red. The coloration depends on the food, the mood and the genes.
Males are often pale red or even colorless with single red stripes. They show no yellow ovaries, nothing yellow at all. Often they also show no strip on the back and the whole body looks different from female's body. They are slimmer and the body has a different shape. The abdomen is slimmer and more straight on the under side where the swimerrests are, not curved like a females one. Males are often smaller and seldom they reach their maximum size of about 2.5cm. The antennules (the two pairs of small antennaes) are also longer, they are approximately 1.5 times as long as the antennules of a female of the same size. This is a (quite colorful) male cherry shrimp:
Sometimes colorless or brown offspring occurrs. These shrimps show the coloration of the normal Neocaridina denticulata sinensis. The cherry shrimp is only a color morph of one of the nine sub-species of Neocaridina denticulata. The wild ancestors and other subspecies are brown, grey, transparent or blueish. Sometimes the mutated allel of the cherry shrimps does not work correctly anymore and the offspring looks like one of the mentioned wild subspecies.
Frank
16th Apr 2007, 01:27 PM
English name: Red Cherry Shrimp
Scientific name: Neocaridina heteropoda var. red
Origin: Taiwan
Size male/female: 2 cm / 2.5 cm or 0.8 inch / 1 inch
Water temperature: 18 - 28 °C or 64 - 82 °F
Water Parameters: pH 6.5 - 7.5
High or low breeding form: high
Behaviour: non-agressive
Difficulty: easy
Description:
Female Cherry shrimps are more colorfull. "Saddle" and eggs are yellow, later they are turning grey/brown.
They can crossbreed with other species of Neocaridina heteropoda and maybe Neocaridina cf. zhangjiajiensis (I´m not sure about that, I don´t keep them together).
My experience on this species:
I keep them in tanks without heater or cooling system. They can live in a wide range of water parameters.
It´s a prolofic species and a good choice for higher temperatures.
Remarks:
Nothing special.
English name: Red Cherry Shrimp
Scientific name: Neocaridina heteropoda var. red
Origin: Taiwan
Size male/female: 2 cm / 2.5 cm or 0.8 inch / 1 inch
Water temperature: 18 - 28 °C or 64 - 82 °F
Water Parameters: pH 6.5 - 7.5
High or low breeding form: high
Behaviour: non-agressive
Difficulty: easy
Description:
Female Cherry shrimps are more colorfull. "Saddle" and eggs are yellow, later they are turning grey/brown.
They can crossbreed with other species of Neocaridina heteropoda and maybe Neocaridina cf. zhangjiajiensis (I´m not sure about that, I don´t keep them together).
My experience on this species:
I keep them in tanks without heater or cooling system. They can live in a wide range of water parameters.
It´s a prolofic species and a good choice for higher temperatures.
Remarks:
Nothing special.
Scientific name: Neocaridina heteropoda var. red
Size: 2.5 to 3 cm or 1 to 1.2 inch
Water temperature: 15 to 28°C or 59 to 82°F
Water parameters: pH 6.5 to 7.5
Origin: Taiwan
High or low breeding form: high
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http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/3/cherry01.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/cherry_shrimp2.jpg
A well loved species for its color, hardiness and prolificness. Cherry shrimps make a good beginner shrimps in a planted tank or delicated shrimp tank. They reproduce at the age of three months with the size of about 2cm. They are very easy to breed and can become a problem in small tanks because of overcrowding.
Variations of the red are normal, it varies from solid red to wine red or brownish red. The coloration depends on the food, the mood and the genes.
Males are often pale red or even colorless with single red stripes. They show no yellow ovaries, nothing yellow at all. Often they also show no strip on the back and the whole body looks different from female's body. They are slimmer and the body has a different shape. The abdomen is slimmer and more straight on the under side where the swimerrests are, not curved like a females one. Males are often smaller and seldom they reach their maximum size of about 2.5cm. The antennules (the two pairs of small antennaes) are also longer, they are approximately 1.5 times as long as the antennules of a female of the same size. This is a (quite colorful) male cherry shrimp:
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/1/cherry_male.jpg
Sometimes colorless or brown offspring occurrs. These shrimps show the coloration of the normal Neocaridina denticulata sinensis. The cherry shrimp is only a color morph of one of the nine sub-species of Neocaridina denticulata. The wild ancestors and other subspecies are brown, grey, transparent or blueish. Sometimes the mutated allel of the cherry shrimps does not work correctly anymore and the offspring looks like one of the mentioned wild subspecies.