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Hi@sdlTBfanUK and@Crabby thank you so much for replying. I finally get it now Omg. No wonder they say its a worlds apart. Now that you mentioned it, the colours really popped after settling down. Although not as liquid paper white as the pure crs I bought at the shop. Can't wait to see how the colours develops further. I'm currently feeding them shrimp king colour. And you're right about the blue bolt. They are really a pretty sight. So unique and mesmerising. Actually the yellows are actually cherry shrimps. [emoji87] I kind of keep the cherries and crystals together. I maintain the water parameters in between hoping that it will suffice cause I saw my colleague doing that for years now and she buys her shrimps from the same seller. First image is the shrimps with my community of cherries and my pure crs above on the sponge. Second image is the blue bolts. Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk

Oooo. Yeah I'm keeping them around 6 plus for pH(more comfortable for the caridinas) and not too low. I'm too scared cause I have a few berried neocaridinas. Don't want them to start dropping their eggs. Off topic, but is there ways to stop a cherry shrimp from dropping its eggs? One of the yellow cherries I just bought from the seller was pregnant and she started dropping off her eggs few days later. [emoji24] Was hoping for her to be the matriarch of the yellows in my tank. [emoji17] I asked the seller what the parameters he kept them and it was similar ; tap water dechlorinated. Considering my country is quite small, the water from the tap shouldn't be too far off Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk

The two supposedly wine reds(red King kong). Second picture is its view from the top. Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk

That blue bolt is stunning, they are my favourites. The yellow cherry witth the stripe are also very pretty. You can keep neocaridina and cherry together! The cherry will adapt better to slightly off parameters than the Caridina! The red stripey in the photo look to be red wine on the left and red crystal at the middle back. The upside down higher grade crystal is also very attractive? If these are the new shrimp they have coloured up nicely? Simon

So the CRS will have very consistent colouring - large white bands that are clear and defined, and a more 'painted' bright red. You can see all their bands go completely around their body, and a higher grade CRS has more white on it. A red wine, however, will be higher grade if it is more red, and they don't always have consistent bands. Additionally, red wines have a deep, 'wine' red. The easiest tell is definitely the colour of red - CRS have a brighter, 'painted' red that looks like it is literally painted on their shell (the white has the same look), and red wines have that deep red wine colour, which is the colour of their flesh, and the white looks like it is painted on to that red-pigmented flesh. From the second photo I see the following (going left to right in lines, and then working down one line at a time from the top like in a basketball play - 2 1 4 2 3 1 - assuming 2 means there are 2 shrimp sharing a lateral line in the image, etc.). These are just my assumptions, I'm not an expert, we'll need side-on photos in a couple weeks to tell properly. Top 2: High grade CRS and a Red Wine Next 1 below: CRS Line of 4 (left to right still): Shadow Panda, Blue Bolt, Yellow King Kong, Black King Kong Next 2 below (right one is higher than left one slightly but I'll call it a line): Low grade CRS or Red Wine (need side image once coloured fully), and a Yellow King Kong Next 3: Black King Kong, high grade CRS, and a Shadow Panda or low grade Black King Kong Last 1: Blue Bolt Hope this helps and I didn't make you more confused ahaha.