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Tank trim and maintenance yesterday. Best I can tell, 2-3 batches of babies likely dropped, because they are effing everywhere. 4-5 more females also berried. Some pics for fun.

Cherry shrimp can be very tough, I have transferred them from mmy od tank into the betta tank (culls) (totally different parameters) as food and there is a colony in the betta tank now. I literally did NO acclimating at all. When buying new though, to give them the best chance it is always best to accimate them. I have red bloody mary in my od main tank, but most shrimp are wild type now as I haven't kept up with culling and the tank was set up 5+ years ago. I have never kept tiger shrimp, but that may happen soon as I do have a tank withh just 1 taiwan bee shrimp in it, plus fish though! Over here they aren't sending fish/shrimp at the moment so I don't even need to think about that currently? Simon

Definitely. I’m not new to shrimp, infact, my first ever tank I set up I saw some cherry shrimp at a very small pet shop. My tank had been set up for 3 days. 3 DAYS. I didn’t drip acclimate. The shrimp lasted for like 3 months until I added a kribensis to the tank and they disappeared. I guess those were some pretty hard shrimp, huh? But yea I’ll go to my lfs first and then maybe online. So the oebt can survive in my parameters? That would be awesome. I could get my blue and red. Have you ever kept them?

The tiger shrimp are quite adaptable and sturdy, unlike other Bee shrimp, so I wouldn't think you would have any problem with keeping them in that PH as long as you acclimate them for longer when you get them! Simon

I wouldn't concentrate too much on the names as if it isn't a shrimp expert selling them they could be anything so go by whether you like the colour/shade. For instance, dark blue wouldn't be good in a dark tank/substrate, the reds would be better, or a lighter blue if you want blue, and yellow would really be superb due to the contrast? When I have seen them for sale here for example, blue dream are bright mid blue, blue velvet are dark blue (almost black) etc. Here is a link to a specialist site so that you can see what they should look like, they are as JayC states but it is easier to see than describe; https://www.rendo-shrimp.de/epages/62701010.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62701010/Categories/Garnelen/Neocaridina_Arten/Blaue_Zuchtformen Simon

I wouldn't want to guess from that photo, but if you say they were red (it looks more chocolate) then it is a nice strong density so if you like it go for it, do they have enough to start your collection/breeding colony? It makes sense that when they colour down under stress they wouuld probably go browner so they should colour up nicely when established. Simon

Yeah, they are both so nice. That's why MTS exists. MTS (Multi Tank Syndrome).

Yep! But for $5 more I can get 20. I was just at my lfs and they had blue neos and I’m torn on weather I should get red it blue!!