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So I have a female that has berried twice and lost eggs both times. Suggestions?

Ok I bought a cull from a guy that breeds red rili. I didn’t want to buy top quality shrimp yet because I’m new to shrimp hobby and bound to and have (bought a internal filter tank my 1st mistake) make mistakes. I have been researching the subject but as you all know there’s a lot of information out there. Now I think the females I have has recessive rili gene in them but they are all red bodies and don’t show rili markings at all. I am guessing they fire reds....but unsure. The males I think are low grade rili. Red head and red tail somewhat clear middle. What’s my chances of getting a good rili out of this batch? Do they get their looks more from their mothers or dads? If they have shrimplets I plan to cull them by putting unwanted ones down stairs in community tank. When I feel ready to buy a good batch of rili should I just put all these ones down stairs and focus on the good quality shrimp or do it the hard way and breed all and see what I end up with?

I recently bought 40 neo shrimp and out of the 40 shrimp one was berried. I was and (still want to) going to put them in a 8 gallon tank but it had a internal filter with huge slits where shrimp can easily get through and within hours most of mine got into that department. I sadly loss 7. So I had to move them to my smaller tank which they seem to like. Only issue it’s way too small and has no filter. Now I know there’s 1 berried shrimp in this tank:) I’m not sure if it’s the original.... but I do see a molt. Should I leave them all in this tank until shrimplets are born? I don’t have a filter for it. Right now bare bottom, heater and Java moss and driftwood with Anubis as its only decorations. Oh piece of almond leaf too. The other tank is now fixed and set up I now have a shrimp safe filter, shrimp substrate that cloud up the water although it’s slowly becoming clear. should I move all shrimp but mama to 8 gallon?

I have moved berried shrimp dozens of times successfully. The trick is to always keep them in water. Don't lift them out with a net without water. What I do is get a plastic container (clean and free of oil), use my normal net to catch the shrimp, but before lifting the net, slip the plastic container under the net and lift it all up making sure the net is still in water within the container.

I love the pisces & Oliver Knott line of substrates. There's something for everyone, they look and work great, and they're reasonably priced.

I know I have a berried shrimp... one came that way but I just noticed another molted..... so maybe more on the way....I still want to move them to 8 gallon eventually...but I’m unsure when the little shrimplets be born.....

I know they aren’t cherry...they too red and I don’t think they are Bloody Mary their flesh aren’t red and I believe Bloody Mary has red shell and flesh. They do have red legs though...

The shrimp would be fine in the 5 gallon if you want to leave them in there? There may not actually be much difference as the 8 gallon looks taller and shrimp only occupy the base are so what is best is the largest base area, rather than volume, that is why specialist shrimp tanks aren't very tall! Getting shrimp from the rear sections of the original tank can be done using a 'turkey baster', they are cheap enough to buy and I cut the tip back a bit to make the opening bigger. Simon

What do you mean she's lost them? Dropped them completely, or in a molt?

I mean, the shrimp you have there is already a beautiful shrimp. If you want to turn that line into a rili line, using the low grade rili males, it'll take a few generations to get some nice ones popping out, and at that stage you'll probably want to bring in someone else's rili line anyway to increase genetic variation. It's up to you whether you want to go for the more interesting alternative of breeding your own line, or just buying one. Just know you're not likely to get anything special from the first batch.

It's difficult to tell. You should ask the person you bought them from what he thinks it is. I wouldn't call them Fire Reds, as that will confuse the situation. Rillis do not revert to Fire Reds. And an almost red Rillis does not make it a Fire Red. If the guys says these are Rillis, than what you have are just Rillis, albeit low quality Rillis. Yes, separate them. Breeding these current low quality Rillis with a better quality Rillis will just produce poorer quality overall. Say you buy new A grade shrimp and breed them with C grade shrimp. You end up with shrimp between B and C grade, never A grade. Offspring will get traits from both parents.

I actually like the set up in the little tank.... wonder if I can make it like this in the 8 gallon. Funny thing is I just plop it in without thought. After chasing 17+ shrimp out of the filter area 2x within a day I was tired.

Well they got through again...so I took them out and I think issues were I use the whole mesh and didn’t glue it down well. This time I cut it to only go over the slits and glued it down well. I also got shrimp and plant substrate called flu also stratum. The tank refilled and set up but without shrimp in it. I bought a shrimp safe filter. Right now water foggy. The shrimp are in my smaller 5 gallon tank for now....to bad it’s too small they seem to like it better....