Breeding & Genetics
From your first berried female to a colony that doubles every couple of months — plus grading, genetics and selective breeding.
How to Breed Cherry Shrimp: The Complete UK Guide
How to breed cherry shrimp, from a UK breeder's racks: parameters, sexing, the berried female, shrimplet survival and growing a colony that lasts for years.
Cherry Shrimp Eggs: Colours, Timeline & What Can Go Wrong
What berried cherry shrimp eggs look like, how egg colour changes over the 14-21 day carry, when they hatch, and what causes dropped or failed clutches.
Raising Shrimplets: From 5% to 80% Survival
How to take shrimplet survival from a handful per brood to most of them: sponge filters, mature biofilm, moss cover, stability and the right first foods.
Neocaridina Grades Explained (With Charts)
Neocaridina grades explained by a UK breeder: the red ladder from Cull to Painted Fire Red, plus blue, yellow, green and dark lines, with charts and prices.
Berried Female Care: Protecting the Brood
Berried cherry shrimp care done right: why stability is the whole plan, which berried behaviours are normal, and the one time it pays to move her before hatch.
Sexing Cherry Shrimp: Male vs Female (Photo Guide)
Male vs female cherry shrimp made simple: the four tells — size, colour depth, belly curve and the saddle — and why juveniles are near-impossible to sex.
How Fast Do Cherry Shrimp Breed? Colony Growth Maths
How fast cherry shrimp breed, worked through with a modelled 12-month table from 10 starters, honest survival assumptions, and why a real tank levels off.
Selective Breeding for Colour: Line-Breeding Basics
Selective breeding for cherry shrimp colour, from a UK breeder: pick your best 10–20%, remove the rest, keep the line pure, and how many generations it takes.
Neocaridina Genetics & the Colour Family Tree
Neocaridina genetics made clear: one species, a wild-type ancestor, and a colour family tree from red and chocolate to blue, yellow, green and rili lines.
Can You Mix Neocaridina Colours?
Can you mix cherry shrimp colours? Yes, they live together fine — but they interbreed and revert to wild-type brown within a couple of generations.
Breeding Shrimp for Profit in the UK
An honest look at breeding shrimp for profit in the UK: the real maths on prices and colony growth, the costs nobody mentions, and why it's a side income.
Why Won't My Shrimp Breed? 9 Causes
Why won't my cherry shrimp breed? A UK breeder covers the 9 causes — sex ratio, age, temperature, stability, GH and diet — with a clear fix for each.
Culling Explained: What, Why & Humane Options
Culling cherry shrimp means removing them from the breeding line, not killing them. What culling is, why breeders do it, and the humane options for the shrimp.
Crossbreeding & Wild-Type Reversion
Can cherry shrimp crossbreed? Neocaridina colour lines interbreed and revert to wild-type brown; Neocaridina and Caridina can't cross at all. Here's why.
14 guides in this hub, and counting
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