PeteA
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Hi All,
Got a strange question. I currently have 4 Red Cherries in my tank. Two I 'aquired' as babies when I bought my neon tetra and have both grown to quite healthy female adults. The other two (much more red) my better half bought. They've not grown anywhere near as large as the original two, but I presumed due to the heavy red colouring that they were both female.
The two original developed nice green saddles and on the 17th, one of them decided to go a bit mad (flying round the tank for a few hours) but the next day had settled and tucked underneath it had a number of green berries. "Great!" I thought, "one of the newer ones must have been a male - more shrimps without having to buy any". Now last night I was looking and the shrimp in question (who's shell has hardened a bit and gone deeper red) appears to no longer have any green berries, but is still 'fanning' like she was before. One of the two newer shrimps is starting to develop a saddle as well as I was looking again this morning, so I potentially only have one male (though one chap in a LFS suggested they are asexual).
Now I'm just wondering what could have happened - am I being blind and just can't see the berries? Were they not fertile and she's abandoned them? They surely can't have hatched in less than a week?
Stock wise I have one Endler Liverbearer, some male Guppies, couple of Neon Tetra, couple of White Cloud Minnow and a couple of Amano shrimp.
pete.
Got a strange question. I currently have 4 Red Cherries in my tank. Two I 'aquired' as babies when I bought my neon tetra and have both grown to quite healthy female adults. The other two (much more red) my better half bought. They've not grown anywhere near as large as the original two, but I presumed due to the heavy red colouring that they were both female.
The two original developed nice green saddles and on the 17th, one of them decided to go a bit mad (flying round the tank for a few hours) but the next day had settled and tucked underneath it had a number of green berries. "Great!" I thought, "one of the newer ones must have been a male - more shrimps without having to buy any". Now last night I was looking and the shrimp in question (who's shell has hardened a bit and gone deeper red) appears to no longer have any green berries, but is still 'fanning' like she was before. One of the two newer shrimps is starting to develop a saddle as well as I was looking again this morning, so I potentially only have one male (though one chap in a LFS suggested they are asexual).
Now I'm just wondering what could have happened - am I being blind and just can't see the berries? Were they not fertile and she's abandoned them? They surely can't have hatched in less than a week?
Stock wise I have one Endler Liverbearer, some male Guppies, couple of Neon Tetra, couple of White Cloud Minnow and a couple of Amano shrimp.
pete.