Shimp Choice

[haleem8777]

Hi i need help on choosing shrimp for my tank, taking part in the survey will help me decide 

 

[Mikey1]

your second question is two questions, they contradict one another

 

[haleem8777]

ill change it , thanks

 

[Baccus]

I so wish it was so simple with shrimp as to which ones to get and keep together but so much depends on your water, ambient temperature and the money you can throw at keeping shrimp.
For example I love crystal red and crystal black shrimp but I know from expensive experience that they will not survive Queensland summers without a chiller on the tank.
Cherry shrimp come in a range of colours and in fact the Sunkist is another morph of the humble red cherry. So putting them together in a tank will just enable them to breed and mostly likely produce throw back offspring.
Depending on which country your in Blue velvet is used to describe two species of shrimp, if your in America then Blue velvets are usually Neocaridina hetropoda, which makes it another colour morph of the humble cherry shrimp. Otherwise I have heard of Blue Crystal shrimp being refered to as velvets on rare occasions.
 
So best advice, if your not worried about keeping colours pure then by all means mix and match the various colour morphs of cherry shrimp together, you can get some interesting colours but are more likely to produce throw back wild type offspring.
Crystal shrimp and cherry shrimp have different temp requirements, so they can go together in the fact they can't cross breed but one or the other of the two species will not be entirely happy with the water temp.
Also mixing any caridina species such as crystals with tigers can produce mixed species offspring.