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You will get low grade cherries and some medium grade cherries! I'd cull all the low grade males. Make sure you keep a few of the best males and go from there. That way, you'll get max production as well as best colors possible with what you have. Then start culling the lowest females too once you've got a decent number of mature mommies. (And by cull, I don't mean kill. My culls live in my community tank. I admit probably 3/4 of their babies end up as fish food...but not all!)

How's it going everyone? I have been breeding red cherries and parataya australensis for a year or so now along with other native inverts. And I've recently moved into fancier shrimp. My other main focus is all things plants and planted tanks. Great to find a shrimp site with such knowledgable folks, Thanks @fishmosy for the help with my zebs from day 1. :) basically saved my whole colony of Caridina Zebra, and just straight up Kudos for your trip report on them. I have set up a few tanks (originally for the zebs) that I'm looking to breed some CRS and other beautiful more high end shrimp. I also have a Pari of Amazon live bearers with some fry too, and various other planted tanks and fish. Thanks for having me.

All things going well, I'll try to move the server backend stuff on Tuesday so if you try to access the site and it errors, don't worry it's probably because I'm in the middle of moving it. The new URL will be http://www.skfaquatics.com/ but this site will autoredirect anyway so don't stress.

Love it. Can't wait to start my bigger tank. Got a very similar piece of drift wood as you centre piece. Looks awesome man! Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

Thanks mate, once again a bounty of knowledge. Update: they are all stable for now and feeding from the feijoa leaf/ huddled under it when lights are on. Tds still 17ppm, nothing changed. Starting to notice the reddish and milky colors fading and whites becoming more crisp.

We need the FB-style "reaction" button so I can click "wow" and not just thumbs up! That looks awesome !

Welcome mate, I'm enjoying following your zebra progress ( in so far as enjoying could apply given the sad losses :-( ) I hope you continue to update us on your progress.@fishmosy is very knowledgeable you will get nothing but top advice from him! [emoji111] [emoji173]

That is likely a female, although I can't quite see if she's got a saddle or not. If I sell ones about her level of color, they go for $0.50 each. I admit I usually don't charge much for the redder ones either.

There are the low grade cherry shrimp, the mid grade sakura shrimp to fire reds, and the high grade painted fire reds. If you breed these with bloody mary shrimp (from the chocolate line), you get red offspring. The first 3 colors, the shell is red, the flesh is clear. The BM line, the shell is clear but the flesh is red. Bred together, I suspect you get something in-between, if not both. As for the other colors... well, it varies. You could get wild colored offspring, or you might get something else. There are so many different strains and not all of them breed true. There are at least two strains of yellows... Neon Yellow and Goldenback Yellow. At least one of them has the ability to occasionally throw green shrimp offspring. I hear that Blue Diamonds and Blue Carbon Rilis can throw red, black, blue and chocolate offspring. It's pretty much that unless you are willing to do a mixed tank, or set up tanks to breed pairs in, you may never know for sure. Even if you do, your results may be different than someone else who does the same setup.

If you mix them, even if you get decent looking shrimp, most people would be cautious about buying them and they'd be worth less than whatever the original separate colors were worth.

Nice work!

That is awsome. Im thinking about doing something like this. Do you water the moss and emersed or is there enough condensation for it to grow on its own Sent from my SM-T815Y using Tapatalk

That was my thoughts from the description - temnocephalans. Unfortunately the current assumption by many people is that any organism on the shrimp is a parasite, but in fact some are symbionts. In fact, I've often come across shrimp with temnocephalans in the wild, but only once came across shrimp heavily infected with parasites in a creek with heavy siltation due to a road crossing just upstream. Any shrimp doing loop-de-loops is going to die IME, so best to remove it sooner rather than later. I'm against putting Eucalypt leaves in with shrimp because the chemicals within the leaves are likely more harmful than good. Assuming the chemicals do kill bacteria - they are more likely to kill your filter bacteria than the bacteria inside a shrimp. The filter bacteria have a hard enough time staying alive - remember water with a very low TDS is very difficult for bacteria to grow in. I think this is one of the reasons why zebras get bacterial infections in high TDS water - a high bacterial load in the water overwhelms their immune system which is used to very low bacterial counts in the water. As an aside, my student and I have been doing some feeding experiments lately with Paratya australiensis and we found that Eucalpyts are one of their least favorite leaves to eat. From personal experience with zebras, they don't eat the Eucalypts either. At this point, I think you need to stop changing things and just let everything settle down. Don't be too worried about food, the shrimp can survive on very little food. Just ensure the tank gets enough light to grow a healthy biofilm and feed sparingly with pellets, snow or powders. Turn on the light for a longer photoperiod to get the biofim growing.

Moving day! Got busy and shuffled things, im liking it more already, now to collect a few more stems and plants and it will be closer to my vision. Well as long as the belem and tonina live

interesting discussion, so till now the only way is still from selective breeding only ?

Welcome @Gelelalah