What shrimp(s) do you keep?

[logi-cat]

Hi, I was wondering what shrimp(s) do people keep or want to keep in their aquarium. At the moment i have an Amano shrimp, 8 Cherry Red shrimp and 9 Crystal red Shrimps.

 

[flyingfish]

Re: What shrimp do you want to keep?

Crystal Red and Red Cherry shrimp.

 

[hotweldfire]

As of yesterday, job lots. Had a delivery I ordered ages ago primarily for my nano but that's turned into a shrimp killer so they've all gone in my main tank. Not ideal as lots of potential undesirable cross breeding:

Neocaridina
unknown (large) number of red cherries ranging from decent cherry grade up to taiwan painted fire red
10 blue pearls

Caridina
About 15 CRS (mostly B grade but 3 or 4 S grade)
5-10 CBS, half A and some S and SS
9 fairly high grade golden bees
3 snow bees

Paracaridina
4 blue bees
1 quite stunning black bee, a princess bee I think

 

[daniel19831123]

I never like to keep golden bees and snow bees in the same tank as CBS and CRS as they cross breed. Eventually you will get high grades pattern shrimp with the cross breeding but the white patch will never be solid and it always comes with a tinge of orange. I much prefer CRS and CBS to be on their own and selectively breed it for higher grade.

 

[hotweldfire]

I know. You can spot a crystal that has cross bred with a golden bee a mile off. Unfortunately for me not enough tanks

 

[Matt Warner]

Hi all,
I have a couple of Amano Shrimp in my tank but thinking about adding some more, was thinking of some more Amanos or Tiger shrimp. The Crystal Red Shrimp are really cool and nicely coloured I like them!

 

[daniel19831123]

Hopefully mine will breed like rabbits from now on since the first batch has finally hatch. Can't wait till I selectively breed them to get solid white and red.

 

[logi-cat]

i'm still waiting for my shrimps to breed. Crystal Red shrimps are still too small, but my cherry Red Shrimps look mature and more vibrant in colour. Hopefully i won't have to wait too long.

 

[Westyggx]

I have CRS, Amano and Red Cherry.

 

[kev88]

I have crs, brs, and sakuras. Would love to keep pearl blue, but a deep pearl blue colour...

 

[Ben M]

I only have sakuras ATM, but I'd like to get another nano to try a rarer species.

 

[Derek Tweedie]

I've got a bucket load of tiger shrimps. 6 Hetrapoda wild form. 5 Sunkist shrimp and 1 African filter shrimp who is currently 3 inches so still a toddler.

 

[chrisjj]

Cherry shrimp - hundreds
Sakura - tens
Crystals - 8
Amano - 4

 

[Bungy]

I have approx 2000 RCS,
30 CRS B-S Grade,
20 CBS C-B Grade,
Amano,
Neocaridina Var Yellow
Neocaridina Var Orange
Taiwan Blue Tigers

Expecting delivery of my first 5 x Red RILI shrimp tomorrow.

 

[Bungy]

Cherry shrimp - hundreds
Sakura - tens
Crystals - 8
Amano - 4

Chris
Do you have any pix of your "Sakura"...I sold an LFS ooop Norf 200 Cherries at 40p each last year and they had them up for a fiver each as SAKURA...!!!

Herewith a pic of my Cherries....

 

[chrisjj]

That looks like a sakura....

 

[Iain Sutherland]

These arent my shrimp but thought they deserve a wider audience (someone else had asked to repost and they were ok with it...

Currently just have RCS and amano

Wish i could afford these.. or have the skills to keep them alive!

 

[Bungy]

That looks like a sakura....

Its just a bog standard RCS. Admittedly after 3 years of very hard selectively breeding to produce this deep Red.

Not sure that the freshwater SAKURA is a separate species or just a term for a higher grade Cherry - Sakura being Japanese for Cherry - the Sakura shrimp is actually a Marine species...!!!! What insences me however is thoes whom seek to profiteer from others whom are less informed. I badge mine as RCS and nothing else, selling at 50p each....!!!!

 

[Bungy]

These arent my shrimp but thought they deserve a wider audience (someone else had asked to repost and they were ok with it...

Currently just have RCS and amano

Wish i could afford these.. or have the skills to keep them alive!

Stunning shrimp indeed and stunning photography to match.

 

[viktorlantos]

Additionally to the existing CRS S, SS, SSS, SSSS, CBS S, SS, SSS, SSSS and Black tiger today we've got another beauty. Taiwan Bees. The photos are not the best now and they are only here from today, but i thought i share them.

Bentleys in the house

BTW just found this photo on one of our memory card. CBS B. We had a bit more time here to shoot the image.