Green Shirmp!!

[Kuec]

So i have green shrimp...and now they're turning red....
WHY?!
haven't fed them anything but shirakura pellets...so yeah
just general question

[effox]

Usually it's attributed to diet, so that's really weird man. I've never had that happen to me before with any of my shrimp.

Let's see what others can come up with.

[Kuec]

i just realized i wrote shirmp...hahah

i heard if they eat other pellets/food they stay green...could be wrong

[Tn23]

The shirakura wouldn't make them change colors.... perhaps your just looking at your cherries and you thought that 1 green shrimp morphed colors or something

[Kuec]

no i know the difference -_-

guess no one knows why they are red....

[Tn23]

They mated with your red shrimp

[Kuec]

does someone ACTUALLY have a reasonable explanation......other than they "mated with my red shrimp"

[jkam]

maybe they were originally red shrimp but they were dyed when you purchased them?

[Morainy]

What species of shrimp do you have? Here is an article about dark green shrimp with photos. Notice that in the photos, young green shrimp are red.
Dark Green Shrimp .:. Caridina sp. "Dark Green" .:. Freshwater Aquarium Shrimp Species Information Page

[curtisonrad19]

There are two types of green shrimp.
The dark green (cant find the sp. name -.-)
and the normal green- Caridina babaulti sp. "Green"
Basicly, the normal green shrimp sometimes change color during their life time (often to red/brownish shades)

The dark green, stays green. The shrimplets also grow much faster.