Red Shrimp

[Batty]

I was wondering about growth times, I have 3 red shrimp 1 is 1cm the others about half that, how long do they take to grow to adults and how big will they get. they came in the bag with my BNs.

 

[Doodles]

Do you know what type of shrimp they are?
If they are cherry shrimp, they don't get very big anyway afaik

 

[Irene0100]

yes cherry shrimp only grow to approx 1.5cm and vary in shade from quite a red colour through to pink and almost no colour, especially if stressed.
do you have any photos?

 

[Batty]

no photos as they are hard to see as the hide a lot.

 

[Lornek8]

Are they solid red (for the most part) or do they have white stripes?

 

[bre]

I'd be guessing that they are Cherry Shrimp. They seem to be everywhere in Australia at the moment and people like myself don't mind just giving them away. They don't grow too big (biggest I've had was 1.5cm) and breed like mice. So expect to have quite a few in no time at all.
This first one is a very gravid one.

 

[Batty]

The bottom pic looks like the ones I have, as I said I only gave 3, so not expecting a population boom anytime soon.

 

[GrubbyGirl]

If they all look like that you wont have a population boom period - they are all female!

 

[Batty]

I meant without the eggs sorry I should have said

 

[GrubbyGirl]

If all 3 of your shrimp are all red then they are females. You have no males therefore you wont have babies.

 

[Batty]

they are mostly red, the small ones are too small to see properly.