Any information on Orange Neocaridina Shrimp?

I turn to fishlore again for information regarding what my LFS have labelled as 'Orange Neocaridina Shrimp'. They are a beautiful orange in colour and are very small at the moment, as I imagined they all start life out like. I was interested in these, for my tank once it has cycled, to go in after a month or so. Does anyone have any information regarding them, or has kept them?

Dan.

 

They have the same care requirements as red cherry shrimp, they should not be kept with red cherry shrimp, or any of the other neocardina shrimp, because they will cross breed and undo all the slective breeding that has been done to bring out the color morphs, resulting in brown shrimp.

Once your tank cycles the tank size is finefor them, depending on what else you plan to stock in the tank. Shrimps like having mosses, like java moss to hide and breed in, I feed my red cherry shrimp algae wafers, shrimp pellets and zuchinI along with what the scavage off the bottom of the tank.

 

Thanks for the reply. So they would be okay to go in right away? It is fairly heavily planted, a lot of moss and many hiding places. I only plan to put in some Galaxy Rasboras at the moment, not decided on anything else yet. What is Zuchini? A vegetable? Sorry if that sounds basic. Are they just as prolific reproducers as RCS?

Dan.

 

Once the tank is cycled and stable they should be safe to go in.
ZuchinI is a vegtable, I believe it goes by a diferent name over there, but I cannot recall what at the moment, they are a long green squash that look a lot like a cuccumber( which the shrimps also like). They should breed the same as the red cherry shrimp, they are the same speices, just breed to bring out the orange coloring instead of red.

 

I believe you may know zucchinI by the name "courgette."

 

I believe you may know zucchinI by the name "courgette."

Ah thank you, that is much more recognisable. I thought there was some mysterious and exotic vegetable I was going to have to source but it turns out now that I can very easily obtain some of these for quite cheap. Do you just put it in raw? Or cook it first?

 

you can do either, I serve mine raw , but it requires something to hold it down so the thin slice won't float. You can blanch the slice to help it sink on its own.

And there are lots of other veggies you can try, spinach and lettuce sometimes work.