I Cross-Bred Shrimp for a Year, This Happened

In this video, we'll take you through each step of our cross-breeding project, from selecting the initial shrimp pairs to monitoring their development and documenting the amazing color variations and patterns that emerged. Whether you're a seasoned shrimp breeder or just starting out, you'll find valuable insights and tips to help you succeed in your own breeding endeavors.

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[coasterblocks]

Maybe next put the rili shrimp in a tank together and see if you can improve the quality of the striping.

[jiahturner]

I've done this same experiment, and yes, the warm colored shrimp don't create wild types when cross-bred, they stay colorful. I started my orange and red colony with one orange female and a handful or red males, and I've noticed that only females in that colony can be orange. I'm not sure what that means genetically, but it's very interesting.

[lady_dragoness]

Over a couple years, I've added jade green, black rose, cherry, bloody Mary, gold, and orange to my tanks. A lot of my shrimp have retained this unique copper stripe down their backs that seems to have originated from my original jade green batch. But now its on beautifully orange brown shrimp, clear shrimp, cherry shrimp, and some crazy patterned wild types too. I find all of them equally beautiful in their own ways and they seem to know where they're hidden the best as I have observed that they tend to stay on objects/plants that match their camouflage. I have anubias for the greens, red lava rock for the ones that retained red based colors, drift wood for the browns, and black gravel that hides the clear and wild types well. These observations intrigue me and will entertain my detail oriented mind for hours. I will never understand thinking any one pattern of shrimp is ugly.

[Anonymous-mfj]

Bro pretty much all scientific endeavours start with “I wonder what happens when I…”

[steve-adams]

"Fucking no clue" Now you're speaking my language

[DrGibs]

3:18 in.... uhm, did anyone else see that shrimp swim straight through the flower pot like it wasn't even there?

[Aンナ]

From a genetic pov (I'm an amateur, take this with a grain of salt): Looks like the red/blue gene is a dominant gene (bigger chance of being visible on the offsprings) and a yellow/orange is a recesive gene (lower chance of being visible on the offsprings).
Few things I noticed:
1) blue shrimps probably have a wild-colourpattern genes
2) the orange shrimp have very interesting pedigree (might get interesting colours and variations if you bred them a bit more)

[SitrukSoS]

This is the heart of what YouTube is all about… try cool shit out, and share it with as many random strangers (and bots) as humanly possible

[taylor]

3:16 that shrimp just went to another dimension

[MrBlack]

"i have no clue whats going to happen" is the rawest, purest form of scienitific discovery

write down *exactly* what happens at every stage and youre gonna be doing some serious science, it might not be useful science, but youll be learning alot and produce tons of data that other people likely would love to read over

[Nemesis]

From what I remember, the tree of cherry shrimp is derived from three or four major lines.

The first is the cherry lineage, which spawns all the red shrimp. The rilis have a potential to develop a bluish stripe over the clear one, while another spawns the oranges. The oranges oddly enough spawns a green variant, though I’m not sure how (maybe crossbreeding, I haven’t explored too deeply myself).

The second is the black lineage, which spawns the blue and brown (shoko) lines. Blue makes the blues, carbons, and blacks, the shokos develop convergently with the reds and form the chocolate and Bloody Mary lines (though I’m not so sure the Bloody Mary needs to be bred for in that specific way since some cherry lines have similar coloration).

The yellow lineage is pretty self-explanatory, it develops yellow and can mutate some darker colors to converge with the blue lines to form green.

Between all of these lineages, there are generally four main patterns of color: the cherry (speckled), solid, back-striped, and rili.

I suspect that the rilis’ colors could be bred for a more broken marbled pattern or even bred out entirely for a translucent whitish variety (aptly named the false snowball). Purples have yet to be set in stone as a variety, but I’ve seen some culls that look fascinatingly close stemming from the brown and blue lines, as well as some oddly maroon reds. Maybe try working toward those if you’re bored enough?

[nevadafayy]

As a molecular biology student and an amateur shrimp keeper, wanting to do this experiment and figure out some shrimp genetics myself is so tempting...

[jewbertsheckelstine]

3:15 to 3:18 Holy crap!!! The red one just dematerialized from reality!!!

[amandapittar]

“ Let’s mix my coloured shrimp to see what we get.. by the way I’m colour blind… “ 😂😂😂

[RonixzGaming]

I had blue and red mixed together and I was expecting Purple but instead i got bright Orange Shrimps, honestly Orange Shrimps looks kinda cool lol.

[Pixelbane]

3:18 Shrimp phases through potted plant into Agartha.

[kingbeastie]

Nick, please keep this experiment going. Please!
I'd love to see how this is all going in another 6 months. Cheers.

[egoranonymous]

This was really interesting! I always wondered what would happen if you mixed them. Here in the states you can buy a mix of colors. They are called Skittles after the candy.

[gregghorner]

I still have a few cherry shrimp in my 40 gallon jungle tank that were originally bought 7-8 years ago and have managed to survive various rescapes and predation.
They are now wild type in color for the most part and are stunted. I don't see them much but the largest are less than an inch and most are maybe a half inch.

[Cleeon]

This wonderful, I just started breeding project for neocaridina this month and then you upload this report, thanks so much