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Most definitely, I’m just waiting on the final release version. They anticipate in Summer season for the US so not far now.

It's the only way to go if you want full control over what is in your water and control of the water parameters. Rain water is another alternative. Shrimps and many softwater fish (generally) like low pH, low TDS water. And for many people this is almost an impossible task with their tap water. pH comes out at close to 8.0 and TDS is 80-100, at least the last time I tested my tap water here in Sydney. That 80-100 TDS is made up of a lot of unwanted chemicals and metals. If you also knew what was in our tapwater, you WILL want to swap to use RO or rain water and add your own minerals using products like Salty Shrimp.

There are no "Cherry Red" shrimp. There are "Red Cherry" shrimp, though. CRS = Crystal Red Shrimp (Caridina) RCS = Red Cherry Shrimp (Neocaridina) Your GH is too low for your shrimp (you want at least 6 GH) and the KH is potentially too high for the Crystals and Taitibees. The Cherries and Ghost shrimp can do just fine on sand or gravel substrate with at least 6 GH and a pH of 7.0-8.0. but the Crystals and Taitibees would do best on a buffering substrate with remineralized RO water using GH+ only minerals. Ideally, you want a KH of 0-1 (typically 0, but 0 and 1 read the same on the API tests), or a max of 2, with a pH of 5.0-6.8. Would recommend setting up a separate tank for your Caridinas so they can live in preferred parameters.... unless they came out of Neo type parameters? Do you know the parameters they were raised in?

Thank you @Cloudwarrior the original shrimp were excellent quality and only graded as culls due to the number of higher quality shrimp i had. Compared to what is available now most of my culls would be up there with the best. I was given my original colony by a very very generous man - the original starter of this forum Dean- and at that time probably the best breeder of shrimp in Australia.I no longer keep many Neos- only my Yellows and a few of the blues from the pond- but I did have a lot of different Neos back then -2013/2014- there are very few wild type in the pond even after 3 years of leaving them alone , most seem to have gone back to the original colours however it would take several generations of selective breeding to get them to breed reasonably true to colour again. I'm not sure I want to go there but will see how these few I caught out go. The TDS in the pond was quite a bit higher than the tank they are in and I have noticed some loss of intensity to the lower TDS so will let it get back up to around 200 -it's at 170 at the moment but the pond is over 300 almost 400.

Back in 2014 I showed some pictures of my quite large CRS colony. At that time I was breeding for numbers just to fill a very large tank so the quality of the shrimp wasn't very important to me. Last year I decided to take it in hand to improve the quality and weed out all. The low grade shrimp. I ended with a much smaller colony so put them into 70 litre breeding tanks, added a couple of mid - high grade males and left them to it. Along the way I culled any low grade males and eventually low grade females . I'm happy to say I once again have a thriving colony of about 150-200 shrimp of mid to mid/high grade shrimp. Patterns initially were B & A with a few S and now they are basically S , SS and a few SSS . There is still a lot of room for improvement and I will be doing another big cull soon . I can see a few shrimp still have tiny clear sections but on the whole they are looking much better. I'm getting colour on the legs now too which is good. Hopefully in another year I might have more high grade shrimp