Can anyone I.D my shrimp and babies ?.

**lillith112** · 20th Dec 2011, 05:01 PM

I bought this shrimp which was in with some Cherries, I presumed it was a tiger shrimp but am not sure. I have him living with 2 Cherries, 1 Sakura and 2 black bumble bee (not sure if thats the correct name for them ?) and also had some ghost shrimp but moved them into another tank.
This tiger shrimp has never berried up so think its a male but he is the only one in the tank, I have lots of babies now and they all exhibit the dark red band on their back but some look transluscent colour and some are more Cherry shrimp colour, any ideas what they are ?, can you get hybrid Cherry with tiger ?.
Julia
Heres the adult.

And some of the babies.

**magpie** · 20th Dec 2011, 10:29 PM

Hi there, these shrimps are cherry.

**soonsing** · 20th Dec 2011, 10:52 PM

yupe.. look like cherries..

a tiger will look like this

**AznRice247** · 21st Dec 2011, 11:10 AM

looks like a low grade cherry to me

**Fento** · 22nd Dec 2011, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by AznRice247

looks like a low grade cherry to me

<agree. Usually less colured cherry (mostly males) tend to preserve well coloured "kind-of-stripes"
Not so obvious as your 1st picture, but for example check mine:

and "Neocaridina heteropoda blue" (I bought them with this name, they get kind of bluish when they're under stress)

BTW have you seen it? http://www.shrimpnow.com/forums/show...t=cherry+tiger