Daniel Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Has anyone witnessed Neocaridina mating? Is my imagination just running away with me? Have I been in quarantine too long? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 yep...will the babies be green? 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 @BrandyI hope so! That would be so cool if it works that way. It’s probably like mutt guppies where whatever you end up with it’s pretty cool no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Agreed, I think I had a chart once, and sadly it is not that straightforward. Genetics rarely are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwise Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 I did a search, not sure which of these is the best chart: https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=neocaradina+shrimp+color+chart&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ange Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Neocaridinas typically revert to wild type when color mutations mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 Just now, ange said: Neocaridinas typically revert to wild type when color mutations mix. That would be so cool to see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ange Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Skittles tanks can be a lot of fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Lizzie Block Posted September 17, 2020 Administrators Share Posted September 17, 2020 So neat! Is the yellow shrimp a female? I struggle to tell them apart sometimes. At first glance, I thought they were both male. Anywho, came here to share a red and blue shrimp I accidentally got when my cherries spawned with my 'blue dream' neocaridina. Super cool! Tie dye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 5 hours ago, ange said: Neocaridinas typically revert to wild type when color mutations mix. I think LRB has blues and yellows in a tank and gets tons of greens..... I don't see a lot of shrimp breeding back to wild... Similar to other species it takes awhile to get completely wild unless your stock has odd genes. Bettas for example don't turn out wild breeding 2 different colors normally... but if I breed 2 blue bettas, I may get some more wild looking or washed out colors because blue is not dominant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 15 minutes ago, Tre said: I think LRB has blues and yellows in a tank and gets tons of greens..... The blues and and yellows in the my aquarium, the ones you see in the video came from LRB, maybe green is a possibility after all. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ange Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 My understanding of neo genetics is that the colors are a result of a single mutation causing the pigment on the exoskeleton to be a different color than normal (excludes lines such as bloody mary where it isn't just the exoskeleton that is pigmented), and since the mutations are recessive it's more likely that mixing strains will result in wild types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 Yogi Berra once said, "In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In practice there is." The exciting prospect we have before us is all of these blue and yellow and red shrimp living and loving together in the same tank. Soon we will learn what comes from mixing strains from different colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ange Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 That's the fun of skittles tanks! I personally prefer Caridina shrimp so haven't gotten to keep one myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 At 40 minutes he talks about his cull tanks...too many live Q&A to remember where but he has shown off the green in the skrittle tank.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Ah....hiding on Instagram....I rarely look at Instagram. He has photos and vid of a lot of his shrimp tanks there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 I think I like all the colors. How could you go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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