Hey all I'm Stu from Swansea in South Wales UK.  I have kept various tanks over the years ranging from cold water to marine, but never really got into the dwarf freshwater shrimp. I always appreciated their unusual colours and was drawn to them because let's face it they are damned cute little critters lol. So recently at one of my LFS I was nosing around with my fella and found a Nano tank that originally was meant for a betta and a bamboo shrimp, so he bought it for me and we set it up let it run with RO water and some filter bio additive (like cycle) and let it run for a little while. We went to another LFS and while I was looking at the betta's my fella was looking at these stunning crs called me over and that was it tank plans changed and now I've got a shrimp tank. He bought me 3 crs followed a couple days later by 10 cherry shrimp a few days later 2 sunkist and then I bought a bamboo shrimp because they are funky looking filter feeders that are really gentle giants (compared size wise to the dwarf shrimp). So far so good every inhabitant is active, feeding well and at least one crs has moulted so happy healthy shrimp. 

Sorry for the very long introduction. 

Sounds like a great collection of shrimp you are starting to get together.

Just be aware that keeping cherry and crystal shrimp together is always advised as they have slightly different requirements when it comes to water parameters and one will tend to out-breed the other (typically cherries). Also be aware that the different colour strains of cherries will interbreed.

A great solution to this is to get more tanks for your shrimp so you can keep (and breed) them separately!

 

 

Thank you for the welcome, funny enough my partner warned me about mixing different colours because the offspring would be wild-type colours, I'm nit interested in the breeding side of things, just the beauty of the shrimp. If they do breed then fair enough lol I'll cross that bridge if and when it happens ? As for parameters I'll be careful don't worry.