Cherry Shrimp babies!

[TheFighterFish]

I've successfully bred cherry shrimp. Yay! At first, I was worried that my platies would eat the adults. There was one case, where I found a dead cherry shrimp. Automatically, I assumed the others would share it's fate.

However, as I was doing my routine feeding tonight, I noticed that there were little red things. It turned out, there are 2 smaller cherry shrimp babies.

I'm kind of excited. Just sharing my smiles with everyone else.

 

[Lotus]

Congrats on the babies

 

[TheFighterFish]

Thanks Lotus.

I was wondering, do cherry shrimp ever get that bright red as we see in the pictures?

 

[Dino]

With clean water, lots of light, and color enhancing food, you will see almost glowing red cherry shrimp.

Congrats on the babies.

 

[MemnochsKat]

What kind of color enhancing food would you feed cherry shrimp dino?

 

[Dino]

Any fish food flake that says color enhance will also work for shrimp.
I use Omerga One products.

 

[jen0910]

Congrats. I wish I could get baby cherry shrimp, but, I have 2 females and no male. I would have bought more if they hadn't been so expensive. They were $4...seems expensive for a little shrimp...

 

[MemnochsKat]

Kewl! Thanks Dino.

 

[TheFighterFish]

jen0910--yeah, I was very lucky to find a cherry shrimp breeder. He sold me each for a dollar but they were all young. I had five originally that went down to four. And then they had babies!

I happened to find the breeder on craigslist believe it or not.

 

[jen0910]

neat, i just looked at mine and one of them has eggs! I doubt they are fertilized though because mine both seem too red to be males.