About Cherry Shrimps UK

Cherry Shrimps UK started the way most shrimp obsessions do: one planted nano tank, ten red cherries, and the discovery a month later that there were suddenly thirty. It grew into a home breeding room — Bloody Marys, Blue Dreams, Emerald Greens — and a small shop shipping high-grade Neocaridina across the UK with a live arrival guarantee.

Then we lost our colony. Every keeper who stays in this hobby long enough has a version of that story, and we're not going to pretend ours didn't happen — it's on this page because it taught us more about shrimp keeping than three years of success did. The post-mortem, the water testing, the honest reckoning with what we'd missed: all of it went straight into the guides on this site.

So this is what Cherry Shrimps UK is now. First, a knowledge base — every aspect of Neocaridina keeping written for UK keepers, UK water and UK prices, by someone who has bred these shrimp and killed these shrimp and learned from both. No recycled American advice, no pretending it always goes right.

Second, a breeding room being rebuilt properly. Our next colonies are growing out now, and we won't sell a single shrimp until they're strong, coloured-up and breeding. When they're ready, the waitlist hears first.

What we stand behind

Everything on this site follows three rules. Guides state real numbers and real ranges, not vague reassurance. Photography and illustration are honest — AI-illustrated artwork is used for design, and when we show you a photo of stock you can buy, it's a real photo of real shrimp. And when we don't know something, or breeders genuinely disagree, we say so on the page.

Questions, corrections, or just want to talk shrimp? Get in touch — we read everything.