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Great news, the others will be hiding in there somewhere as would be their instinct, but always good to see one occasionally popping out! Simon

Yes, it's possible for Neos to be kind of stripy like tigers. Also, new info may be coming to light that tigers and Neos can breed... and yes, tigers are Caridina. A tank of reds doesn't typically revert to wild type, even with neglect... chances are, you had a rouge shrimp in the tank *OR* one was carrying genes for another type?

With as few shrimp as you have, you probably only need to feed them 1-3 times a week... and if you are providing natural sources of food, i.e. leaves, you could probably feed them 1x a week or less. If I remember correctly, you want to useceylon cinnamon, not cassia cinnamon, for tanks, so it may also be a good idea if you can confirm the type of cinnamon you have. Otherwise, should be okay to leave in tank.

You are most likely right. I have only ever put red cherries in the tank from one source so assume one had different genes and now they are cross breeding. I got the shrimp off ebay many years ago, so you never really know what you may be getting, but they were all red to start with. I have little interest in that tank anyway, as I have the Taiwan Bee tank now, so can't be bothered to try and fish out all the brown ones as it is pretty densely planted! Simon

I measure it with the JBL test kit. The drops one. And i measure the ppm with a standard TDS meter. The water here is well know, because there is a bottled version of it that they sell for the newborns. It is one of the rare recommended water for the babys. My babys shrimps love it. Sent from my iPhone using Shrimp Keepers Forum

Woke up his morning and snapped a picture of little blue(could be him) in the main tank, this is the offspring of fire red mummy. Is it blue or black, one cant be sure in the light. Is this gonna be a cull? Cant help but think it is too pretty to be one. Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

Its a good sunday afternoon! Spotted one baby shrimp that was saved earlier, wonder where the other 14 went. Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

They could be "wild type" Neos. You can confirm this if you put two shrimp together of opposite sex - one red one brown/clear. If the female gets pregnant by the lone male, then you know it's Neocaridina. As per another post elsewhere, you say it came from a blue shrimp... so "wild type" from mixing two different types of Neos together that were not "compatible" and offspring reverted to "wild type".