Wine Red Shrimp

Beautiful, deep red coloration helps this little shrimp stand out sharply against any backdrop, plants, or substrate in any aquarium.  WINE RED SHRIMP are the highest grade of red shrimp available, so they are completely solid red - even their legs! These shrimp look great, clean your tank, and are a blast to watch!  Like all dwarf shrimp, they are very active and breed quickly.  A colony of these shrimp works as a very effective cleaning crew for your aquarium, cleaning up algae and waste.   

These are freshwater shrimp and can live in almost any freshwater aquarium.  They are very popular for planted tanks and community tanks, and many people use them in large aquariums for waste management and algae control.  We generally ship young adult shrimp that are already of breeding age (so around 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch in length) and are the highest grade of red cherry shrimp, which means that their coloration is the most intense red you'll ever find!   

 What We Like About This Shrimp:

• Impressive solid red coloration
• Completely peaceful with all non-aggressive tankmates
• Safe with all plants
• Excellent scavenger

RECOMMENDED TANK PARAMETERS:

• Minimum tank size: 2 gallons, recommended 10 gallon minimum for a colony
• Temperature: 64° - 78° F (17.8° - 25.5° C)
• pH: 6.8 - 7.5
• dGH: 6 - 15
• dKH: 0 - 10 
• TDS: 180 - 400

CARE GUIDELINES:

• Diet: Scavenger that feeds continually.  Requires very little feeding in a well-established aquarium containing algae, biofilm, or decaying plant matter. In less mature aquariums, high quality dry foods with high plant content can be fed multiple times daily. 
• Social behavior: Peaceful.  A small group can continually replenish and grow its population
• Origin: Tank-bred , but wild populations indigenous to Taiwan
• Average adult size: 1 - 1.5 inches (2.5 - 3.8 cm)
• Average purchase size: 1/2 - 3/4 inch (1.3 - 1.9 cm)