Blacks turning red !!

[Martib]

I've got some black cherries and the offspring are starting to turn red. 

If I get the blackest and put them together will I produce blacks ??

[ineke]

Hi @Martib, most black lines carry Reds - known as Bloody Mary shrimp- and also blue - known as Blue Diamond. I have found nearly all my blacks even when put to only the blackest mate have still given a small proportion of blues and Reds. I did get the blacks to breed fairly true for several generations but then still started seeing a few blues and Reds show up. I have seen adverts for blacks that breed true but most lines seem to have a few other colours show up. The blues and Reds from black are also hard to get to breed 100% true. Most other colour Neos do breed true but not these it seems - I wouldn't argue with anyone saying theirs breed true but over the course of 4-5 years mine never did .