Mixed cherry colors and offspring colors

I began with 10 red cherries and 10 dark blue cherries, and had a berried (red) female give birth. When the shrimplets began to color, it became obvious that her sire was a blue shrimp. The offspring are either blue, red, or wild-type (brown), and some of them have really interesting shades!
Today I saw this tiny black shrimp. I didn't even know you /could/ get black shrimp.
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Ended up adding a variety of different colors to the tank. Now there are a few black rilis, orange rilis, yellow, and orange shrimp. At least one dark sapphire blue shrimp as well.
It will be interesting to see what their shrimplets will look like!

 

That's so cool! I definitely would like to breed shrimp! It seems so fun!

 

Yes some are black! On the top of the wood.

 

The majority of my blue+ red cherries have been clear or brown. I did however get one Neon yellow one from a yellow female and either red, blue or clear male.

Some of my culls.

 

I think what you are seeing are chocolate shrimp which is a side branch from cherries. But yes , you’ll definitely get some interesting shades.

A side note is that rili is a recessive gene which will eventually breed out, so if you wish to keep rili’s then I suggest you separate them or they’ll disappear eventually. They are certainly something you could sell in the future if you separate the colours , people love home bred shrimp compared to imports

 

Yes some are black! On the top of the wood.

It's so cool looking!!

The majority of my blue+ red cherries have been clear or brown. I did however get one Neon yellow one from a yellow female and either red, blue or clear male.

Some of my culls.

Really? I'm surprised to hear that! I genuinely saw more red offspring from my red + blue. Mostly red, then some blue and wildtype. I did notice that the wildtype took longer to show color than the red and blue did, which was interesting.
Neon yellow looks really cool!

I think what you are seeing are chocolate shrimp which is a side branch from cherries. But yes , you’ll definitely get some interesting shades.

A side note is that rili is a recessive gene which will eventually breed out, so if you wish to keep rili’s then I suggest you separate them or they’ll disappear eventually. They are certainly something you could sell in the future if you separate the colours , people love home bred shrimp compared to imports

Oh no well, I did figure that the colors would disappear eventually, as I am mixing them. I guess rili will be the first to go.
I honestly did not think about selling them! I figured that people would not want to buy shrimp that were housed mixed, since their color genepool is not pure. But maybe some people will want the wildtype!
Eventually I will keep light blue shrimp with snowballs, which should stay pure since they are different breeds (I think).

 

People do like skittles to start off or even wild type , if people aren’t confident with shrimp or haven’t tried before they don’t want to spend $6 per Bloody Mary etc if they’ll just die. Home bred shrimp are so much more desirable, compared to Taiwan ( etc ) imports.

 

Update with some pics! There are a few different offspring from the red x blue pair. Some really dark blue, red, wild-type (splotchy brown), black, and one wild-type that is almost entirely clear! The wild-type have such amazing camoflauge that I never notice where they are!
It has been amazing watching them all grow up.
One of my reds is berried again. Will see how the shrimplets turn out!