Category: Cherry Shrimp

Breeding cherry shrimps is fun, and it is easier too comparirong with other shrimp species. If you ensure the basic things that cherry shrimps need, they’ll breed automatically. You don’t have to provide any extra care. However, for optimum breeding and getting the maximum amount of shrimp offsprings, you’ll need to follow some guidelines. In […]

Cherry shrimp doesn’t require constant maintenance. However, if you want to keep them, you’ll have to know how to take proper care of them. I’ve been keeping cherry shrimps for many years now. I know they can be pretty forgiving. However, if you can’t maintain some of the basic things for your cherry shrimps, they […]

Cherry shrimps are pretty delicate creatures. Cherry shrimp babies are much more delicate than the adults. So, we’ll have to take some special care of the cherry shrimp babies. In your shrimp keeping life, at some point, you’ll obviously see little shrimp babies jumping around in the tank. So, it is always necessary to know […]

Molting is a very natural phenomenon for cherry shrimps. It is a part of their growing process. However, if the conditions aren’t right, unsuccessful molting can occur. It poses a lot of problems for the shrimps, even death. The most common and serious molting problem of cherry shrimp is called the ‘White Ring Of Death’. […]

One of the ‘must-have’ requirements for cherry shrimps is plants. Plants do make a safe and homely environment for the cherry shrimps. However, to a beginner shrimp keeper, choosing the correct plants for shrimps can prove to be a confusing task. That’s where this article will come in to help you out. The best plants […]

If you are keeping cherry shrimps, at some point, the females will get pregnant. At that time, you’ll need to know how to take care of the pregnant cherry shrimps and ensure successful breeding. After hours of research, I have found all the information you need to know and compiled them in this article. Pregnant […]

If you are a new shrimp keeper or keeping shrimps for a long time, then at some point you definitely wanted to know the gender of your shrimp. The curiosity is quite understandable. However, cherry shrimps are so small that it can be quite difficult to determine their gender. So, I decided to do some […]

If you are keeping red cherry shrimps or wish to keep someday, then it is extremely important to know about their grading. Grading is something that can make you quite confused, like me. So, after doing a ton of research, I believe in this article I can explain red cherry shrimp grading simply in layman’s […]

I think there is no doubt that cherry shrimps can be very fascinating creatures. They possess some unique characteristics that set them apart from any other fish in an aquarium. In this article, I’ll talk about some of the interesting facts regarding cherry shrimps. I have collected all these facts after hours of research and […]

This is the most common question I often face from shrimp keepers. Not only the new shrimp keepers, even the experienced ones face the death of cherry shrimps in their tank. Cherry shrimps can die for many reasons. The most common reason for cherry shrimp’s death is not acclimating them. Acclimating is a vital process […]