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You wouldn't need any buffering substrate for those yellows since they're neos. Could have save a little more money and gone with sand,regular gravel, etc. but up side to it you could possibly keep crs/cbs if your parameters were lower. Also use ro/di water. Not using it will just waste the substrate just as Poopians said.

you have some nice coloring going on!

Thanks. I culled a few times. I do get the occasional low grade cherry looking shrimps :/

Yepper. The diamonds will throw rilis as well, so not surprising your BM do too.

Im just glad the offsprings are red and not some other colors lol. For the most part my goal is to get them to come out that dark ruby red color. The only problem is that male i have pictured is 1 of 2 males. I like the darker coloration but not so much of the rili pattern. The other male is more uniform in color but not as dark but lighter.

This is going to be about my bloody mary shrimps I've been breeding and keeping for almost a year now. Lately I've been having success in breeding them true to the most part (i would say 70% lol). As I adore the deep "blood" color I do sometimes come across some rilis in my bloody mary bloodline. Interesting since I've always thought they come from chocolates that can throw out bloody marys or blue diamonds. 

Heres one of the offsprings of my oringinal colony. A very dark red rili patterned male shrimp. I dont know if you can see it in this pics but the bottom pic was when it was a only a young juvie.

Now the next few pics are of my females. These I like the most

Another rili shrimplet. Only a couple weeks old.

Bloody Mary is actually supposed to be see through red with red tissue. Different mutations than PFR or FR.

Many sellers unfortunately now are selling fire reds as BM.

Definitive grades are often done as adults, however you can make educated grades by knowing the strain and stock.

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I totally agree on sellers selling FR as BM. Makes me question about some shrimps I recieve as BM but looks more like a FR. If you've had BM before you can tell if it is or not

I don't know what these are but I just had my first batch of babies a couple weeks ago

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Those are blue carbon rilis

Haha that just happened to me too this morning but i was buying a finnex planted+

Just like whats stated above. Looking for red tb mischlings. TIA.

I got these shrimps and was always curious about them if they were red bolts or not. Got these shrimps from Sean L. And from what he said he breed these from his colony of blue and red tb without adding any SW/golden. Just showed up after breeding them for a long time. Some with the red ears and some that looks just like SW/golden.

You definitely need more shrimps. Buy more mischlings at least and separate males mischlings in other tank and leave only females this way you gonna get good chance of tb from females. All my tbs came from mischlings and it's easiest way.

Yeah. I might have to take that route to get a colony of red tb going if i dont get a female in my next order. Now to breed red tb mischlings i would need a crs correct? Would any grades of the crs be fine when breeding or should i use a higher grade crs to breed to get higher quality mischlings and in return better quality tb?

How old are these shrimp? I can tell Picture 3 for sure is a male, but the age of shrimp will certainly help.

Got them from joes about 2-3 months ago. Im assuming at least 3-4 maybe?

All 3 looks like male to me

That probably explains why. :/

Heres a few pics of 3 of my shrimps that i could get. not the best but the best I can.

Shrimp 1: This one here I've been suspecting is a female but some angles it looks like a male

Shrimp2:

Shrimp 3:

I beleive red rilis will start to have blue rilis after awhile? Not too sure.

Personally its a toss up between the bloody mary and yellow golden back shrimps for me. I like the deep ruby color of the BM but the only thing is you have to cull to have a nice looking colony. The yellow shrimp i like that they have a gold racing stripe down there back. Almost like you got "bling,bling" in there lols

As what was stated above. Ive had my tb for 2-3 months at least now and havent seen any berried. My parameters are:

Gh:5 Kh:0-1 ph:6.4 tds:110-120. It could be that i have all males and no female but whats the typical wait time for the tb shrimps to get comfortable and start breeding?

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And then cycle with tap and baking soda to keep PH Up?

Why would u want to increase ph by buffering up with baking soda and at the same time the substrate is going to buffer down? Sound like its contradicting the purpose of the soil.

It looks like u have a diffuser in the left side of the tank. That must be the cuprit. Fish and shrimp swimming to the top is usually a sign of co2 overdose. Done that a few times before on a diy regulator that had a bad needle valve and i think ive seen one of those turbo diffor before

Wait...i read the story wrong lol

It looks like u have a diffuser in the left side of the tank. That must be the cuprit. Fish and shrimp swimming to the top is usually a sign of co2 overdose. Done that a few times before on a diy regulator that had a bad needle valve and i think ive seen one of those turbo diffor before

Do u inject co2?

So another question to follow up, since these are all interrelated (KK, Tigers, TB, CRS, Etc), are the water parameters essentially the same for all of them, or do we have to be careful to select say a different ph/gh for the different types of caridina? I understand that due to the genetic inbreeding some are more "difficult" or picky about fluctuations than others.

Tigers are more like neos which can do fine in harder water but can adapt to softer water but bee shrimps are best kept in soft water

So if you cross a CRS with a CBS you will get TB's? Now Im really confused, what is an example of a TB?

If you cross CRS x CBS. You will get either CBS with red recessive gene. TB are wine reds, black king kongs, shadow pandas, panda, ruby red, blue bolts, red bolts, etc. Both are bee shrimps but different.

Only selling pandas?

I guess it depends how "Pure" your Bloody Mary is. I have one batch only produce about 60% BM while the other batch produce almostly BM. There may be 10% have lighter red.

On the other hand, I found females have deeper red that males.

Colour will deepen as they grow.

Just keep on culling the ligher colour out and eventually you will have a colony of "breed true" Bloody Mary.

I think its always true for neos. Male vs female color lol