Red Cherry Shrimp
Neocaridina davidi
Family: Atyidae
📍 Taiwan
Red cherry shrimp are the most popular dwarf shrimp in the hobby, bred in a variety of red intensity grades from pale pink to deep 'painted fire red'. They are tireless algae and biofilm grazers that thrive in established planted tanks. A mature tank with mosses and fine-leaf plants provides ideal conditions for breeding.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – biofilm, algae, shrimp pellets, blanched vegetables
- breeding
- Prolific in stable water conditions
- lifespan
- 1–2 years
- max size
- 4 cm (1.5 in)
- tank size
- 5 gallons minimum
- temperament
- Peaceful
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Tanks keeping this 🐟
Kept by 3 hobbyistsCommunity tanks featuring Red Cherry Shrimp.
Water it likes
- ph
- 6.5–7.5
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 6–20 dGH
- temperature
- 64–79°F (18–26°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
61°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Jul high)