Are these Neocaridina Heteropoda? (Shrimp ID Help)

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Here's some photos of one next to a cherry. The mystery shrimp seems to have more of a hunch in his back than any of the 3 cherries I had in the container with him. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos, the plastic container isn't as clear as the tank and the auto-focus was having some issues. Mystery Shrimp towards the back, cherries towards the front.

Some have orange eyes, some black. The one I grabbed had black eyes.

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Hey Magpie, thanks for your feedback. I'm confident they are not amanos. I've got amanos in 3 tanks, and while the color is similar to a few of these guys, when you see them in person you can see the difference.

Schorpioen, I've only had them a few days, and none are berried or saddled. The only thing I have to go on in the guy I got them from was told they were Neocaridina when he contacted the supplier to complain about not getting the amanos he ordered.

Definitely not amanos. You'll know if it's amanos almost immediately if you know what they look like. I'll venture a guess... caridina babaulti.

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Took some photos of one of the mystery shrimp next to some female Cherries. Was trying to show the size difference, the mystery shrimp are a few MM larger than my largest cherries. The mystery shrimp also don't seem to have as obvious differentiation between male and female that my cherries do.

Some have orange eyes, some black. The one I grabbed had black eyes.

(Mystery shrimp is the one furthest from the camera)









The body type seems simliar to Sunkist Orange Shrimp:

Hotlinked Photo of Sunkist:


Mystery Shrimp:

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Anyone think this shrimp looks like my mystery shrimp?





This is from another one of my tanks, this tank has only had the following in it:

Fire Reds
Sunkist Orange Shrimp
Green Rocket Shrimp (or whatever the shrimp are that MsJ sold as Green Rocket Shrimp)

This leads me to believe the suggestion these might be Sunkist Orange Shrimp that have turned brown due to the season might just be right. I've been told by two store that carry shrimp that Sunkist are "out of season" might just back that up.

(The tank hasn't been up long enough for fire reds to reproduce and grow to this size, and I never put a non-Fire Red Cherry in it, so no way its a cherry cross that's revered to brown)