will my blue velvets babies ever lose the reds?

[neosin]

So my guys are around 3 months old now >_<

they come from blue velvet parents but none of them are all blue >_<

will they ever lose all the red? If not I'm just gonna sell them and switch to another project\

Not my pic but this is what they look like

[torface]

Blue velvets are from blue gene red rilli so what you have is probably a throw back to the rilli. The shrimps wont lose the red, but that doesn't mean they wont have blue babies. You could selectively breed them by removing the ones with the most red and breed until you get all blue.

Personally i like the blue velvets with a bit of red... this is what we call spiderman shrimp :)

[BlueBolts]

Are all or majority of the juvi's with red blotches...if so the blue velvets maybe F1 from Red Rlli Blue Body x Red Rlli Blue Body parents. By choosing the best and/or getting breeding "true" new bloodline, after F2/3 generation, they'll eventually breed true.

[neosin]

Are all or majority of the juvi's with red blotches...if so the blue velvets maybe F1 from Red Rlli Blue Body x Red Rlli Blue Body parents. By choosing the best and/or getting "true" Luke vegetable bloodline' date=' after F2/3 generation, they'll eventually breed true.[/quote']

pretty much 99% of them have red blotches, yeh i'm too lazy :P

[ineke]

It's worth trying as the generations are so short. I have been breeding and culling my red rili Blue Gene for only a couple of months and I now get a much better percentage of Blue Velvet . I am now setting up a new tank for any juvies that are all blue and will be breeding them together for a couple of generations and then culling again. I had given up too but when I started culling I was amazed at how many were blue- in the tank it looked like they were all red. It really doesn't matter what type of shrimp you get you still need to go through the process of culling and selective breeding unless you buy all top grade shrimp to start with and where's the fun in that??????

[neosin]

I agree with you but unfortunately I don't have any spare tanks so I can't selective breed them :(

oh well, I'm gonna sell my whole colony and someone can continue my work :)

[ineke]

Do you have other shrimp -please don't say you are giving up on shrimp just giving up on the rilis??????

[neosin]

Do you have other shrimp -please don't say you are giving up on shrimp just giving up on the rilis??????

Just going to try something different ineke maybe blacks

I'd never give up on shrimp :)

[BlueBolts]

The blacks are probably more difficult to breed in terms of quality and consistency, in comparison to the blue velvets. The blue velvets through 2+ generations, will breed 90% true from a selective program, whereas my black colony even after F3-4, will still throw our chocs, and even red.....