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Ye, there is a difference between the normal red cherries, fires and PFRs vs bloody mary's. Although all are red to varying degrees, there is a difference in flesh color. Kind of like the different between a carbom rili (clear body, black patches on shell) vs a blue bodied carbon rili (clear blue body, black patches on shell). As far as the stripe, it's genetic. I could be wrong here, but in the PFR line, they have been bred up to the point that the red stripe has encompassed the entire body, thus making them look 'painted'. Male coloration can vary a lot more than females. A BM line on the other hand is completely missing that stripe because they have a clear shell but red flesh.

sorry, but based on My experience, I must suggest no fish for shrimp aquarium, We can not only think about is this fish will eat the shrimps ? but I suggest We must think about other too, like will the shrimp not disturbing by fish waste/ammonia, fish activity, the fish maybe vegetarian but the shrimps maybe can not understand that, they will have fear and no joy in aquarium for the shrimps, but have some fish can be important, sometime We can send few fish to shrimps aquariums if the aquariums have too many other little bugs which disturb the shrimps colony, after the task finished, We must take the fish back to their own dedicated aquarium, I think it's more naturally :)

The general rule of thumb is that if it's big enough to fit in their mouth it's going to get eaten. That said, I've kept my choc cherries with endlers without much issue in the past. They were breeding so much I probably didn't notice juvi's going missing. On the other hand, those same endlers chomped away at my sulas. AFAIK, the only shrimp safe fish is the otto. I understand, in some cases having fish in the same tank is unavoidable. In those cases, you have do what you can to ensure the shrimp and the juvis have sufficient hiding places that the fish can't get in to. Looking at the size of those tetras, once they get the taste of shrimp, there won't be any going back.

It can be hard to ID true colors if they haven't fully 'de-stressed' once in the tank and colors are still off from the stress of shipping and new environment....