neocaridinia Cherry shrimp: red to orange

[Kat_Rigel]

I was pleasantly surprised to find an orange shrimp pop up amongst my red cherry shrimp colony! Due to this, I suspect some of the reds might have been culls from an orange line or something; it must be in the genetics somewhere. I'd like to propagate this and ideally start an orange line. I think it will be pretty tough, but I'd like to try- it should be good fun. Based on the classic color chart of shrimp, it looks like I should just breed the orange one with... any solid red? Thoughts?

[KBOzzie59]

Yes I'd probably try orange male with red female.  If that's an orange male then you are all set!

[Fish Folk]

That's interesting. Total shrimp novice here, so I'll just look forward to seeing if anything happens down the road for you with this. It honestly looks nearly "yellow" to my not-so-discriminating eyes. Bought a bunch of Reds, Blues, Yellows and Greens recently. Housing the Reds / Blues / Yellows+Greens in three divided tank sections of a 33 gal long with different guppies (photo shows community fish -- has since been restocked). I'm interested in seeing how the Yellows and Greens cross for us.

[Kat_Rigel]

11 minutes ago, KBOzzie59 said:

Yes I'd probably try orange male with red female.  If that's an orange male then you are all set!

I actually think it's a female, but I suspect that the genetics should work out the same. Would be easier with a male though (one male and many females.) Do you think it would be more successful getting orange offspring with an orange male? Or is it more just the ease of having one male mate with multiple females?