I got these guys three weeks ago, so far so good they seem to be doing fine. I got the little harlequins and dark maroons before, some of them survived a few weeks but they all died, the shop I got them in told me they didnāt survive very long in their tanks either, they never seemed very active. I just got a few cardinals to try them out, I used half RO water this time as their water is very soft though alkaline. They seemed healthier from the start and were active from the beginning. I keep them with a few female cherries and mandarin shrimp, the cardinals can push the other shrimp about and the presence of the other shrimp seems to calm them and I wanted the other shrimp to eat any dead ones I didnāt find. They are out and about with the other shrimp all the time.
Anyway here are a few pics, the colour varies a lot from red with white dots to almost black with blue dots. They look great with the little white feeder legs moving constantly they donāt swim at all they can hop and move backwards as easily as forwards.
Anyway here are a few pics, the colour varies a lot from red with white dots to almost black with blue dots. They look great with the little white feeder legs moving constantly they donāt swim at all they can hop and move backwards as easily as forwards.