Shrimp Id please.

[Adumlee]

I've recently added some Amano shrimp but it looks to me like I have a neocaridina mixed in could anyone confirm please (I've never kept amanos before but had neocaridina) many thanks

 

[KirstyF]

I don’t have great eyes and you can’t really see the side of the shrimp in ur pic but I get a bit of variation in mine.

This one you can see an obvious pale top stripe.


This one not really at all


And IME colour can change with feeding/tank conditions also.

I’m not a shrimp expert by any means but the side markings are usually fairly unmistakable.

If they steal all the food and face off to the fish….and win….that’ll be Amano’s. 😂

 

[Hufsa]

Looks like a brown/wild type neocaridina

 

[MichaelJ]

Looks like a brown/wild type neocaridina

I think it might be a mix between different colors of cherry shrimp, but could be a more "natural" wild type as well. I have some that looks quite similar in my tank (including with the pale stripe) - and I swear I never bought that particular color, so it must have happened when the light was off...💞 Anyway, I love them just as much as the brightly colored ones

Cheers,
Michael

 

[Hanuman]

Same opinion here. Looks like a neo to me.
Amanos will get much larger and not yellow colored although they can get greenish, darker brown or even reddish depending on their diet. The older ones in my tank were ~4.5cm.

 

[Adumlee]

I'm confident some are neocaridina, I've taken this image, I'm unsure on this one could it be a young male amano or a low grade cherry? ( excuse the ignorance I've never kept amano shrimp before ) I've also added some orange rilli shrimp sp would like to remove the poor grade neos. Thanks for reading.