Are red cherry shrimps hardier than other color???

Since the only red color cherry shrimps are cheaper (about half of the price) of black, chocolate, blue dream, blue bolt, blue velvet, swallow and so on!
So I wonder are red cherry shrimps hardier for wider length parameter? Or easier to keep and breed than other or what??
Why the red color shrimps only half price of others.
I like blue and chocolate shrimps though.

 

Cherries are usually the first shrimp other than ghosts that are picked. Since they are popular with beginners and were one of the first color morphs bred from wild Neocaridina davidii, their line has been bred the most, and has been the most stabilized. They can handle wide parameter ranges and mine do just fine with huge water changes weekly.

Black, chocolate, and blue are bred from red Neocaridina strains. These colors are less common and don't breed "true", in that black shrimp will produce red babies frequently. Because these colors are not stabilized and don't appear as often, they cost more.

Blue bolts are something completely different. They are Caridina shrimp, and are the result of a mutation from the more common Crystal Bee shrimp seen in the hobby.

 

Reds are cheaper (especially if they're cherry grade) because there's more demand for less popular colors, such as blue, black, and orange. They're also more likely to remain consistent when breeding over time. I don't find the other particularly harder to breed, but I definitely have to cull more. Right now, I breed Bloody Mary, blue dream, and black rose shrimp. Actually, I find that the black shrimp culls turn out more blue than red!

 

Reds are cheaper (especially if they're cherry grade) because there's more demand for less popular colors, such as blue, black, and orange. They're also more likely to remain consistent when breeding over time. I don't find the other particularly harder to breed, but I definitely have to cull more. Right now, I breed Bloody Mary, blue dream, and black rose shrimp. Actually, I find that the black shrimp culls turn out more blue than red!

If I'm not mistaken, you can isolate a black line from either red or blue! The color charts for shrimp breeding are pretty convoluted lol

 

Cherries are usually the first shrimp other than ghosts that are picked. Since they are popular with beginners and were one of the first color morphs bred from wild Neocaridina davidii, their line has been bred the most, and has been the most stabilized. They can handle wide parameter ranges and mine do just fine with huge water changes weekly.

Black, chocolate, and blue are bred from red Neocaridina strains. These colors are less common and don't breed "true", in that black shrimp will produce red babies frequently. Because these colors are not stabilized and don't appear as often, they cost more.

Blue bolts are something completely different. They are Caridina shrimp, and are the result of a mutation from the more common Crystal Bee shrimp seen in the hobby.

Wow!!!
When I start a shrimp tank, I probably go with one color to prevent cull, dull colors, if that I’d better go for red, too. And it probably would be less sensitive with water parameters.
Thank you.

 

Wow!!!
When I start a shrimp tank, I probably go with one color to prevent cull, dull colors, if that I’d better go for red, too. And it probably would be less sensitive with water parameters.
Thank you.

If you're serious about breeding you will still need to cull in order to separate higher grades of reds from one another. Bloody Mary > Painted Fire Red > Cherry > Wild Type Neo (dull brown/clear).

 

Even with red you will still need to cull. Reds do breed brown. Browns need to be culled to keep the red color.

 

If you're serious about breeding you will still need to cull in order to separate higher grades of reds from one another. Bloody Mary > Painted Fire Red > Cherry > Wild Type Neo (dull brown/clear).

I probably not even know that (grading) as long as they are pretty close to solid red, I just don’t want the kind of shrimps color that almost clear, really translucent. I saw those on eBay.
But it seems like they will always be some occasional results of breeding that will turn out cull, dull, clear.

 

I probably not even know that (grading) as long as they are pretty close to solid red, I just don’t want the kind of shrimps color that almost clear, really translucent. I saw those on eBay.

You can always sell culls or give them their own tank

 

You can always sell culls or give them their own tank

Thank you so much, you are super informative, but I can imagine room full of tanks of different shrimp grades. Now I feel like cherry shrimps deserve to be more expensive, we just can’t make them identical like cloning. But they are so cute, so I will get my hands on for sure.

 

Thank you so much, you are super informative, but I can imagine room full of tanks of different shrimp grades. Now I feel like cherry shrimps deserve to be more expensive, we just can’t make them identical like cloning. But they are so cute, so I will get my hands on for sure.

I don't cull mine. They're for me to enjoy, I just like seeing them active and producing lots of babies. If I was breeding for profit it would be different, but for now they all just make me happy.

 

I don't cull mine. They're for me to enjoy, I just like seeing them active and producing lots of babies. If I was breeding for profit it would be different, but for now they all just make me happy.

This makes me grin.

 

Here’s some pics from one of my shrimp tanks. These are cherry shrimp but look at the colors.
this one is one of my best. Notice the red legs.
these two are both nice color red the lower has red legs the upper does not. These are the differences.
this one has a bright red color but clear legs and the next one is a reddish brown.

the whole tank.

 

If I'm not mistaken, you can isolate a black line from either red or blue! The color charts for shrimp breeding are pretty convoluted lol

That's true haha. I've taken the blue ones out before, but usually I sell them as black rose culls since they still have a really nice color. I see a couple small red/brown ones but they're too small to move.

 

Here’s some pics from one of my shrimp tanks. These are cherry shrimp but look at the colors.this one is one of my best. Notice the red legs.

these two are both nice color red the lower has red legs the upper does not. These are the differences.this one has a bright red color but clear legs and the next one is a reddish brown.the whole tank.

Can same shrimp change color?
A while ago before I gave up the cherry shrimps. I bought premium shrimps from the petco then put in tank color looked more translucent since the first day and kept that way.

 

Most shrimp loose some colour in transit and go pale, full colour should come back within 24hrs but if the question is change from red to blue or yellow then no that type of change is only done by breeding

 

Most shrimp loose some colour in transit and go pale, full colour should come back within 24hrs but if the question is change from red to blue or yellow then no that type of change is only done by breeding

It looks more translucent than they were in store.

 

Can you give a photo

 

Photo will help. May have been stressed in the store or may be stressed now. How long have you hade them

 

In my very limited experience the red are hardiest to survive and have way more eggs when pregnant. I prefer virtually every other color but I have mostly red. I know people get down on wild types but those seem more aesthetically pleasing to me than the red shrimp.

 

Can you give a photo

That time. I already gave up, I gave to a neighbor but I am thinking about later I will get shrimps again. But thinking not going to buy mixed, last time I bought yellow, red, blue, black, brown. I think ~Only 2 blue 1 black, 5 read survived. When I bought them 5 each.

Photo will help. May have been stressed in the store or may be stressed now. How long have you hade them

I have them for about two weeks, to be honest I feel like guppy is messing with them but when I took to new tank Without fish they still kept dying so I have to a neighbor.

 

My orange sakura seem to be especially hardy and the girls are huge-mongous, as friend used to say!!