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EMERGENCY!!! Hi, total newb here! I have what is effectively a skittles tank of different color cherry shrimp. I’m not a professional breeder by any means at all. I barely know a thing about neocaridina genetics. I just decided to add a few blue, red and yellow shrimp to my tank one day and let them have at it. They’ve since bred to about 50+ shrimp, lots of different colors, a few wilds, and tons of black! In fact ironically I was looking into my tank thinking I might trade some blacks for a few brighter colors when I saw this! Has this ever happened in anybody else’s tank before??! WTF I didn’t even know iridescent cherry shrimp were possible! How do I recreate this??!!! I need a ten gallon tank full of these guys!!!! What color combination can be bred to create this peacock?! Experienced breeders, please advise! I think this guy is third generation, but I’m not sure. Sorry the pics are so bad, my shrimp share a tank with lots of rambunctious male guppies and hornwort, this was the best I could get without reaching into the tank to move stuff and scaring him away. They don’t do him justice but rest assured he is stunning! He has a very nice rainbow shift on the carapace and a beautiful satiny purple iridescence to his tail. I managed to get some video of him too. I’ll try to embed it here in the replies.

It's a beauty that's for sure.

White LED is made up of Red, Green, Blue colours. Yes, that's what I mean. The shrimp's carapace is breaking the white LED lights down into the separate RGB colours. My black shrimps sometimes can show this rainbow colour as well, although not as striking as the one pictured above.

He really is gorgeous. I wish I knew who the parents were! ?

That’s awesome! I didn’t even know that was a thing! Yes and these pics are terrible too! You should see him person! He looks like he’s coated in rainbow titanium!

Here’s some slightly better pics. And a video. I don’t think it’s the aquarium light since the one we have is white light only LED. Unless this shrimp’s exoskeleton is breaking down the colors in the white light… but then I guess it would still be iridescent...right? (Sorry I’m very blonde, almost failed junior high science) <img src=“”> <img src=“”> <img src=“ <source src="" type="video/mp4">

You have created RGB shrimp! Is there nothing safe from RGB. I wonder if it's the reflection of the aquarium lights. How you recreate more is anyone's guess.