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There's no doubt that yours are Neocaridina KaridinaGal! :) The orange female is stunning in that group! Sorry though, can't answer your question on the genetics part of it! Wish I knew! Shrimp genetics gets so confusing! Particularly in Neos!

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Hi Zoidburg, thanks for all the info. I didn't know about Caradina orange shrimp. Both my types of orange are neocaridina. I have had the regular davidii in orange for a while now, that's the darkest girl in the pics I posted. About a year ago I bought a small colony of Sunkist orange that had a number of rili in there too, but their hue of orange is totally different to my other orange davidii, more of a burnt yellow. So I was wondering if genetically they are the same colour being as it's so much deeper on my original ones than the newer Sunkist. The babies from the cross appear to be mostly the same colour as the Sunkist but none with rili patterning. There were two that were darker true orange but not as dark as the mum. Sent from my Elephone P8000 using Shrimp Keepers Forum mobile app

A while ago I took all the shrimp out of my black cherry shrimp tank and put all the nonblacks (chocolate or not dark enough black) cherries into another tank, but left a tub of water with remaining shrimp too hard to catch from the black tank sitting around. The tub remained in the shed for a while and then migrated outside and was left where frangipani leaves along along with flowers and leaves from golden bells shrub fell into the tub. Fast forward to this afternoon and I needed the forgotten about tub to pre-age some water for my native shrimp tank. Simple enough idea, just tip out the tub rinse it and then refill. But when I went to the tub low and behold not only was there 2 small guppies living quite happily but also quite a few shrimp. After painstaking catching we removed the shrimp and I found a rather nice surprise colouration. The main really surprising thing was that the frangipani ( horrid white caustic sapped plants in case anyone is not familiar with it) is not apparently toxic to shrimp, which was not something I ever planned to test nor would I have considered trying. Any way here are some pictures of the nice coloured shrimp saved from the tannin rich soup that was in the tub......next question is what on earth do I do with this one?