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chabbs Shrimp Enthusiast

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Hey everyone,

Today I was at Aquaristic and noticed that they had Chocolate shrimp for sale. However, they don't look like the ones sold here on the forums. I'm just wondering if they both belong to the same species (Neocaridina heteropoda) or not.

The ones at Aquaristic looked like this:

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They look very different to these ones:

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Robert Shrimp Breeder

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Are you referring to the shrimp in the top right corner tank? or the middle left tank?

One has C grade CBS the other had chameleon shrimp from memory.

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The top right tank, from what I remember. "Chocolate shrimp" was written on it.

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The chocolates in aquaristic at the moment are borderline black :)

The shrimp you are referring to in the top pic is the native chameleon shrimp. They don't have them up for sale anymore but still have a few lurking in some of the tanks. They wont breed with cherries.

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Ah it all makes sense now. I was really confused haha

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Robert Shrimp Breeder

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Just to confirm, they are chocolate cherry shrimp in the top right corner, the middle left is all rilis (ALOT OF FEMALES). Most of the chocolates are sold.

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Thanks for confirming Robert. I just dropped by today and had a look myself. They have a lot of nice Rilis :)

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A couple of weeks ago the tank of rilli's was 90%++ berried... then they all got sold :P

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I tried to buy one of the berried ones today. But apparently they're not for sale anymore. So I just settled for a nice looking female that hopefully will berry soon.

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