Red Onyx Shrimp (Neocaridina davidi), BREDBY: Aquatic Arts
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- Backordered, shipping soon
We are extremely proud to offer our very own Aquatic Arts Bred line of the Red Onyx Shrimp!
USA bred shrimp right in our facility means healthier shrimp that have never been shipped before and have grown up in our care from hatching. These shrimp will be hardier, will acclimate better to your tank, and you will be more successful with them because they will only go through the stress of shipping one time from their grow out tank to yours! These will be young shrimp, as young shrimp not only ship better, but they will adjust to new water parameters better than adults.
***Average purchase size: 1/6 - 3/4 inch (0.4 - 1.9 cm)***
This combo box is designed for optimal health, tank, and breeding conditions for your new Red Onyx Shrimp.
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Combo Box will include the following:
- Red Onyx Shrimp (Neocaridina davidi), BREDBY: Aquatic Arts
- 10 shrimp that will range from unsexed juveniles to small males
- Aquatic Arts Starter Shrimp Food Pack
- Botanical Breeder Combo Pack
- Aquatic Art's Choice Live Moss Loose Portion
Planted Tank Combo Box will include the following:
- Red Onyx Shrimp (Neocaridina davidi), BREDBY: Aquatic Arts
- 10 shrimp that will range from unsexed juvenile to small males
- Aquatic Arts Starter Shrimp Food Pack
- Botanical Breeder Combo Pack
- Amazon Frogbit (Limnobium laevigatum), Aquatic Arts Grown - 3 Pods
- Cardinal Plant (Lobelia cardinalis) - 1 Plant
- Anubias Sp. - 1 Plant
- Banana Plant (Nymphoides aquatica) - 1 Plant
- Java Fern (Microsorum pteropus) - 1 Bunch
- Aquatic Art's Choice Live Moss Loose Portion
Start your shrimp tank the right way with this great deal!
The Red Onyx Shrimp shows brilliant hues of maroon and dark red on a chocolate and black base shrimp variant of the popular Neocaridina davidi species! Females of this color variant will be much more colorful than the males. Most males will not exhibit the rusty red coloration, but most females will. This is one of the newest forms in the ever-growing varieties of this hardy, easy-to-keep dwarf shrimp species. This color gene is still too new to breed true the vast majority of the time so colors may vary upon arrival but they will all be from the colony we are breeding.
These shrimp are young (around 1/6 inch to 3/4 inch in length), but will grow up to be 1 inch on average as fully grown adults. Young shrimp will ship and acclimate better to your aquarium. Just be weary when adding them to a tank with fish as some fish may find these young shrimp as food.
Some of the younger shrimp have not reached their full potential yet and will become brighter in color as long as they are comfortable in the tank. Lower intensity lighting and dark substrate also helps them achieve the brightest coloration.
- Healthier, hardier, and will adjust to your tank better than other shrimp
- Distinctive rusty red on a maroon to dark brown/black base
- Completely peaceful with all non-aggressive tankmates
- Safe with all plants
- Excellent scavenger
- 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
- 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.
- Aquatic Arts Snowflake Premium Shrimp Food & Aquatic Arts Pollen Granules Premium Shrimp Food are excellent supplements to the diet of any shrimp. Give them a try and your shrimp will thank you for the tasty treat!
- Natural Botanicals are a great way to boost the immune system of your shrimp and they will also provide lots of essential biofilm for the shrimp to graze on.
- Social behavior: Peaceful. A small group can continually replenish and grow its population
- Origin: Tank-bred in our facility, but wild populations indigenous to Taiwan
- Average adult size: 1 - 1.5 inches (2.5 - 3.8 cm)
- Average purchase size: 1/6 - 3/4 inch (.4 - 1.9 cm)
For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air. If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with 2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air.
UPS 1 Day is a description of the duration of time a shipment will spend in transit once it has been shipped. This does not guarantee the package will be shipped the same or next day from which the order was placed.
Shipping Schedule for this service
Current Handling Time:
1-9 business days
Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days.
Shipping Rate
Pricing is by size of package needed to fill entire order and distance it must travel. It will be calculated at checkout.