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The cherry shrimp and Amano shrimp are not able to cross breed since they are very different species with entirely different requirements for young survival and growth. Namely cherry shrimp give birth/ hatch miniature fully functioning replicas of themselves, while Amano shrimp have larval offspring which require brackish conditions and very specific micro food sources before growing and returning to fresh water. I would think that either you have a male and a female Amano shrimp without knowing it, or the Amano shrimp is doing something one of my single species shrimp used to do. A few years ago I had a single female shrimp of an uncertain family but most likely Palaemonidae family she was the only shrimp in the tank and every so often used to get berried with no other shrimp of any species at all present.

So being very very new to shrimp keeping .... so new it's been three months - REALLY NEW but very addicted! Thought I would pop a few pictures up of some of my gang .... yes I said some .... haven't managed to capture all the different colour variations I have on camera as yet. I sear they wait until I am miles away from the ability to take a picture before sitting in full view in the right light. Grab a camera and the dudes seem to just vanish or you can see a bit of tail or partial bit of body showing between plants ...... I have zero idea as to who belongs to which exact species and you have more chance of winning the lottery than getting me to pronounce let alone decide on their latin species name. They are purely for enjoyment (hopefully theirs as well as mine) a way of trying to occupy my brain cell and calm me down in to a more relaxed state of mind. So unlike most people who are obviously a heck of a lot more into them and into breeding etc I will just blunder along calling them the chocolate ones or the blue ones or the weird strip / clear ones .... Apart from my amano, the crystals and my cherry's I have zero idea what the rest are. One has even gained a name ..... Mr Whiskers.... Yes you read that right ..... and now is the time to walk away hmmm probably more like run away from this post! I currently don't have a nice picture of Mr Whisker (was that a sigh of relief I just heard???) nor a decent one of the crystals or amano, nor my powder blue coloured ones they are running around hiding with their eggs hmmmm also missing a piccie of the electric blue and black that I have..... you will be relieved to read lol. Be warned I may add them at a later date though. Anyways here are a few of my little buddies, if anybody knows what they are please feel free to sing out. If any of them don't look right please also sing out I would rather know than not and rather change my ways and help them than loose them and have them suffer in any way which is my biggest fear.