Imperial Tropicals 25 Cherry Shrimp - Neocaridina (1/3"-1/2") - USA Born and Raised!

Imperial Tropicals is a regular at Aquatic Experience convention and they always bring a large assortment of livestock to the conventions for sale. I've been ordering from Imperial Tropicals for RCS for years direct from their website. Happy to see they are offering some livestock here on Amazon. I have a 8 gal nano that had a black substrate and I wanted to change it out to sand for my rabbit snails. Perfect timing as I found Imperial Tropicals here and ordered 25 of the RCS with the moss balls. Imperial ships promptly and well packed and insulated. The balls and the shrimps came in separate bags. Shrimp bag had small section of plant for them to feel secure and munching during the trip. My experience is the shrimps were red as they arrived and I unpacked. Surprising since they are known to lose color during shipment and that's when most people complain about the lack of color. A couple weeks now in my tank, all shrimps are still alive, no dead shrimps, the RCS is getting along well with my gold rabbit snails. I don't see a problem with the light colored sand, the RCS are still very red. I do see more poop on the sand but that's good thing for me because it's more visual sign to siphon out and change out. In the past, dark substrates mask all the gunk that eventually settles deep into the bottom. I plan to do an update on the review once I see berries on the females. Excuse me while I go and ask Imperial to add more livestock to Amazon!

The title says it all. These are tiny. They all arrived alive and have been doing very well. They settled right in to their holding tank. I was unprepared for how small these were. Make sure your filter won't suck any of the little guys and gals up. I had to get a few out that were pulled through the small vents. They were fine and unharmed but man are they small. I will order again. They are perfect. 9/16/18-Today was the day that this group would come out of quarantine and move into their final home. One little problem. Several someone's had babies last night! I started with 25 and have no idea how many I have now. They are so tiny and cute!

Received 19 living shrimp with 3 DOA. I was refunded $9 which does not compensate for the shipping costs. Additionally, the water smelled terrible and there was a parasite shipped with them. When reaching out I was told that it was likely a scud and that I should just remove it, but from everything I can find they can invade easily since they thrive in the same conditions as shrimp so this was obviously concerning. The shrimp that we received were placed in a cycled tank that had four thriving shrimp in it for a month prior to adding the new shrimp. After four days, only 10/19 of the new shrimp are still living. Two hours was just not enough time to determine their condition. I guess I'll continue to buy from local pet stores moving forward since they offer reasonable warrantees.

Fast shipping. Got them in two days. All live counted 33 in bag. Took a few hours to bring their bag up to temp as it was 35 degrees outside today. Well insulated with heat pad in box help. Drip acclaimed for two hours and in tank now swimming and eating. Bonus they had some hornwort in the bag with them! Will definitely buy from again

I've purchased cherry shrimp before and know they do not always arrive the reddest and that they often get more red in the aquarium after acclimating. of the 25 "cherry" shrimp I initially received, I cannot find more than 1 'red" shrimp. The rest are pretty translucent.

I was met with some beautiful cherrys. no DOA (came with one extra just in case). arrived sooner than I thought, seller is located in Florida and I live in Florida (one day shipping for me, your may very), a lot of baby’s with adults. I did not see any malformed or sick shrimp. I’ll update the post if anything changes

second time i bought, first time was just cherry shrimp which they arrived perfectly fine, great package. This time i bought the variety and; it wasn’t much of a variety. I had blue (3), mostly brown and small baby’s. One clear and the rest cherry. Wasn’t really what i was hoping for but they’re all healthy and moving around perfectly.

They arrived early, few had already mottled in the bag and 29 were alive, one baby was dead, I drip acclimated them for two hours! They were fine for the first few hours, and then one after the other started dying from molting issues, many had the white ring of death on them straight out of the bag. I know it’s not my water because my tank already contained 20+ Amano Shrimps that have been in the tank for 3 months without a single death. I have a heavily planted tank and the parameters are KH 5 GH 5 TDS 320 PH 6.8-7.2 Nitrate 10-20PPM Amonia 0 Nitrite 0 Temperature 70 I test my water twice a week, do 20-30% water changes religiously every Sunday because I keep sensitive plants. I knew the risk of buying online but this is ridiculous!! 2 out 30 to stay alive is ridiculous. Do your self a favor and buy shrimp from Petco. will have a higher chance of surviving!!