Grade my red cherry shrimp?

GagnonElisha
  • #1
Hi! I just got my first ever aquarium, the stocking is just what someone on kijiji needed to rehome, so some neon tetras and Cherry shrimp (a baby assassin snail snuck in on the moss and I put it in a separate container for now) but thats not what I'm asking!

When I was counting the cherry shrimp before adding them I noticed something with one of them, so I separated that one out and lo behold, she's got eggs under her belly!! So what I'm wondering, is what you would grade her, just because she's expecting!
Shes very stunning and also the only one with such deep red and blacks.
 

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ruud
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Looks like a kanoko. I don't think there are any fixed patterns or grades on them. Not really popular I believe.
 
GagnonElisha
  • Thread Starter
  • #3
If she is a kanoko, and she bred with a slightly lower grade male, will that result in wild pattern babies? She's the only one that has the deep black on her, but the rest of the adults are all vibrent red still.
 
ruud
  • #4
If she is a kanoko, and she bred with a slightly lower grade male, will that result in wild pattern babies? She's the only one that has the deep black on her, but the rest of the adults are all vibrent red still.

No, it won't. It's the same line (red sakura). You might get more like these, or more like the lower grades. ...or even something else. Surprises can happen.
 
GagnonElisha
  • Thread Starter
  • #5
Cool, guess its just waiting and hoping my water is good enough for the babies to come!
 
ProudPapa
  • #6
Cool, guess its just waiting and hoping my water is good enough for the babies to come!

If the adults are doing okay the babies almost certainly will also. Juvenile shrimp are often more resilient than older ones.
 

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