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Just remember when you have different colour cherries in together they will interbreed and the quality of your shrimp will go down. You will end up with wild type cherries and lose the bright colours of your red or black. The wild type can be nice but people have worked hard to get good colours in Red and Black types. It's fine to do it but just be prepared for lighter shrimp that may not sell well down the track.

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Wow mate you've got a few nice cherries. Your lucky to start out with a few different colours :)

haha yeah thanks i was really surprised my self when i got all of them at the moment i prob have around 40 shrimps in my tank but i wont to start up a new tank so i can have more different kinds of shrimp

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Just remember when you have different colour cherries in together they will interbreed and the quality of your shrimp will go down. You will end up with wild type cherries and lose the bright colours of your red or black. The wild type can be nice but people have worked hard to get good colours in Red and Black types. It's fine to do it but just be prepared for lighter shrimp that may not sell well down the track.

okay thanks for letting me know but i had no idea that they would breed this fast i will make sure i change them around so it wont happen in the future :)

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Yeah mate' date=' welcome to the forum. You are very lucky to be able to ask questions on here, everyone is helpful. I had to learn the hard way and are still learning from some of the more [b']modern breeders.

thanks and i really am glad that everyone on here is there for me if i need any help with my little shrimpers

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I can see at least one cherry that is berried in the first photo. Maybe two. Difficult to see at that angle.

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