Mixing Cherries

[NoGi]

So we know that mixing red and yellow can result in a regression back to wild colour but what about other cherry colour mixes? Like Yellow and Brown/Blue etc...?

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[Gbang]

Hmmmm.... I don't know!!! Has anyone tried this? I remember dean crossed his cherries for the green Colour?

[Heavyd]

I'll let you know soon Nogi. I have in my planted fish tank, Reds, Yellows, Blues, Sunkist, and soon some Chocolates. It looks amazing when you see all the different colours clambering over the leaves etc.

[BlueBolts]

My son's tank is themed with all the colour of cherries, and there's been several berried ones...will have a closer look next week when we return on hols to see the shrimplets they produce.

Yes, Heavyd, really nice to see all the odours in one tank...however, I used pool filter sand (white), which doesn't really show off their full potential colours.

[Heavyd]

Marcus, I think sand works quite well if you have plenty of dark green mosses and plants. I recently added very white sand to the front of my tank with benibachi soil behind it. I think it looks great, and the shrimp can colour up or down depending on which part of the tank they are in.

[BlueBolts]

Does work well, but not really promote all the colours as much as a darker substrate..

Did the scape minimalist in style so that the shrimps are more in view. Over time, they do colour up, but not as vibrant as I know they can be....

Pic of tank and its substrate some months ago now.... Lots of shrimp since added.

[NoGi]

I'll let you know soon Nogi. I have in my planted fish tank' date=' Reds, Yellows, Blues, Sunkist, and soon some Chocolates. It looks amazing when you see all the different colours clambering over the leaves etc.[/quote']

Cheers, how will we know if the red tainted the offspring though? I'm trying to work out if it is at all to have a combination that will be less likely to regress if that is even at all possible. Half tempted to put a couple of blues into my yellow breeding tank to see what happens.

[Heavyd]

In my case we wont know. I just love the look of them all together. The offspring will be a bonus.

[BlueBolts]

Ditto for me too....this tank is just a viewing tank with all mixed cherries. All my wild types came from my brown cherry tank..

[Kaizen088]

Am working on similar thing atm.

Have 4 Chocs, 16 Yellows, some of Gbangs 'Reds from Chocs' and a few Painted Fire Reds together.

Just waiting for the Yellows and Chocs to mature a little, Fire Reds are mature and ready to go.

I like having the various colours in there together.

I chose the Up Aqua Shrimp Sand mainly for the dark colour of the substrate to help keep their solid colour.

[Kaizen088]

I didn't think this would happen so soon but one of the Red from Chocolate parents that I got off Gbang is berried, question now is which is the one that has bred with her....

Chocolate... Yellow... Fire Red..???

[Dean]

great work :) my guess is yellow dad..

[Gbang]

kaizen my friend didn't you know my cherries put out? lol great to hear they are happy