Finally

[Baccus]

Finally I have found a non-red cherry shrimp bub, from my selective breeding project involving 3 of my darkest red female cherry shrimp and a black/ chocolate male cherry shrimp that an Australian shrimp keeper sponsored me.

It was really hard to get a decent photo of it, because not only is it small but also blends into any brown backgrounds really well. I am now hoping to be able to find a few more, even with different colours.

The red larger red cherry behind the chocolate is related in that they both have the same father/ sire but posisbly different mothers/dams

 

[Chad]

Very interesting.

 

[Baccus]

I really can't wait to see how this little guy and its brothers and sisters will turn out. I do know on the males side his relations have thrown yellows, blues and blacks.
With the breeding program I had always intended to remove the original dark red females, once I started seeing non red bubs, with the intent of only having the black/ chocolate male breeding back over his offspring and siblings breeding together to strengthen the black non red genes. But now I don't know. Plus I doubt I will be able to get the original females out of the tank again without them already being pregnant to the male or berried. And I have no other tanks that I could put the three females for them to drop any more of the black males offsrping. So for now I guess it will be a waiting game.

 

[Chad]

Me either. It's very interesting. Yes, sounds like you need some more tanks to really experiment with breeding the various cross-species color morphs!

 

[Baccus]

Shhh

I am about to set up another tank ,wholey and soley for a new breed of native shrimp I have coming in the new year. These new ones are another Caridina species and the great thing about them (aside from only being newly discovered

) is that the males are bluish and the females are reddish (or was that vis versa

), really unusual anyway and they will need a tank decicated just to them to prevent any fish scoffing them, while building up numbers of these shrimp for future dispersal through Australian shrimp keepers.

The only trouble is the other half says I can't have any more tanks....he thinks 8 tanks a 1000L pond and an old bath tub are more than enough.

 

[Chad]

Very cool! A question while I we're on the topic of shrimp...what pH do you keep them at?

 

[Baccus]

Just thought I would share an update on my special breeding project. This guy is one of the oldest first offspring from the mating of a black male cherry shrimp with a dark red female cherry shrimp. I think this guy looks like treacle or Maple syrup.

These shrimp seem out to mess with my mind, because they never seem to hold the one colour.

In another breeding project I have going using some almost rili cherry shrimp that occured on their own in my tanks, have started producing young. For now the offspring that I have seen are clear.

Not the best pictures I know but gives you the idea, I'll be happy in a few weeks time once these are bigger and I can hopefully get better photos showing if they do have any rili pattern. Or have I by some weird fluke got the beginings of Snowball cherry shrimp.

 

[Chad]

It looks like rootbeer candy.

 

[Baccus]

Some better pictures of the clear/ white baby shrimp