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So at the end of the day with the new lights im starting to feel like ive underestimated the prime. The ludwigia mini's new growth, there is heaps because it grows so damn fast! Is looking nice and red. The tank needs a trim again so tomorrow ill be mowing the lawn thining the hydrocotyle, topping and replanting the super red. Im going to trim back the ratty belem and see if the new light fixes its fugly growth issues.

I ordered those dividers for the same purpose and didn't end up keeping them. They are clear in the middle with either black or teal ends, but the clear part is a plastic sheet with tiny holes in it, large enough to let shrimplets pass through unfortunately. :/

Lucas Bretz. I don't know if he has any photos anywhere other than on FB... He does have Youtube as well. This is his Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/lbknuggs Which has a link to his own FB group where he documents what's going on in his fish/shrimp room. Some photos of his. Lucas mentioned he also has two tanks of "wild" neos, and they aren't necessarily just brown. They can have green, blue, red or yellow hues to them. I came across someone who kept yellows with cherries. All offspring brown/wild type. I kept a couple of yellows (a 'pair') with a small cherry colony and so far, I've only gotten red or yellow offspring. Granted, the yellow adults are gone now, and I haven't seen any yellow offspring make it to adult-hood, so I don't think I have any yellows left? Someone else had a yellow female with male cherry, and has gotten brown/black, dark blue (almost black with cream stripe), and even cherries with a yellow hue to them.

Who are you referring to? Id like to see purple neos! And also yellow with red?! I kept a tank of cherries, goldback, and orange Sakura for a while and just sold the whole lot to someone on a different forum. They threw mostly reds and oranges as well as some interesting green neos for a few generations, although they didn't stabilize and just ended up breeding out yellows. You'll notice there are a couple brown shrimp in there. Surprised I had only a few as I added in ransoms when I had them (pearls, velvets, red rilis, Orange rilis, etc)

Without knowing the shrimps genetics, it's kind of hard to determine what the offspring will look like. Blood Mary x Painted Fire Red results in red offspring. I do not know how the offspring compare to either parent's coloration. To that extent, I would assume that breeding Blue Dreams to Blue Velvets may also result in blue offspring. However, when it comes to mixing separate colors.... it's really a crapshoot. If both mutations are recessive, and neither one is co-dominant, then offspring should, in theory, be brown. There's a breeder who keeps a mixed tank of Neo's and says he hardly ever gets any brown offspring. He has gotten some unique colorations, too. This includes purple, yellow rili with red spots, and others. Tank does have blue, red, yellow, orange and rili shrimp in it. Possibly even blue pearl and snowballs? It's interesting to see the colors!

Yes, thank you. Here is little weird maybe, even variant from neocaridina can beat the price of Sulawesi shrimp easily, maybe cause no unique (not found in nature) yet from Sulawesi shrimps :) maybe that is what makes all of what I feel happening, I wonder why, every time to try breed other species in aquarium, I'm always back want to breed this little shrimps family :D