My Bloody Mary

[NoGi]

It feels like an eternity since I had cherries in my tank but here a few shots I took today. Neocaridina davidi var Red (Brown lineage) aka "Bloody Mary" and I'd say Sakura grade.

[NoGi]

I often see questions around culling and not selling culls etc.. Anyway, the main reason I cull is so that I can remove poorly coloured shrimp like:

So that I can focus on breeding and improving quality of shrimp like:

This is a new colony for me and I'm fortunate enough to get a pretty good start with some great coloured Bloody Marys. In the past I've started with nothing but quality similar to the first pic and it's a long and hard path but worth it in the end. All of the above are Sakura grade btw even though some of the pictures look a little on the higher side there are still a lot of patches of transparency that aren't showing up in the images and the legs are not solid. The grading applied should be consistent with the male/female and offsprings. No point grading something as fire red if all the offsprings are of a lower quality.

And a couple of pics of happy coexistence

[revolutionhope]

Those are very nice Nogi !! Just on the topic of grading as you mentioned. When you say it should be applied to male/female - Being relatively new I'm not as connected as many in the hobby but is there such a thing as a sakura grade male of any type of cherry (in Australia)?

love n peace

will

[NoGi]

Yes most definitely and that is the difficult part, the ladies for me with previous colours seem to colour up a lot sooner than my males between generations. I can't tell from my phone but that cull photo may be a male.

[fishmosy]

I agree. Ladies tend to reach their full colour potential before males. 

[NoGi]

Would be good to get a rilli patter out of these too, so many things not enough tanks lol

[Paul Minett]

great pics of some nice marys

 

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