Neocaridina "Red Onyx"

Neocaridina Red Onyx Tab

• Scientific name: Neocaridina davidi Bouvier, 1904
• Common name: Shrimp Red Onyx
• Difficulty level: Easy, suitable for beginners
• Color: Bright red, some females with a lighter back line
• Life expectancy: 18 to 24 months
• Water parameters: GH 3 to 30, KH 3 to 30, pH 6.5 to 8.5, temperature 5 to 30 ° C
• Aquarium size: From 20 liters, recommended more than 30 liters
• Reproduction: Easy, after four to six weeks, 20 to 40 young are born
• Behavior: Pacific, can live with small fish, crabs, other prawns, crabs, and snails

Characteristics of Red Onyx Prawns

Neocaridina davidi "Red Onyx" It is a breeding shrimp very suitable for beginners in shrimp farming for its robustness and adaptability like the rest of the colorful forms of Neodaridine davidi. Since this is still a very young morph, the offspring must still be bred strictly selectively because the animals can still spread widely.

La Neocaridina davidi it is very adaptable and is found naturally in hard to soft water and in stagnant and running water, which is usually very rich in humic substances.

For an aquarium with Neocaridina davidi "Red Onyx" we recommend a gravel or sand substrate. The shrimp tank can be planted well. To the red onyx they like to eat thin layers of diatom algae or loose green algae, and they particularly like biofilms. Shrimp tubes or thickly growing moss pillows provide good hiding places for shrimp.

Neocaridina davidi "Red Onyx" they are peaceful group animals. 10-20 baby prawns make a good starting population. It should be noted that not all color varieties of the species Neocaridina davidi they should be kept together, because wild-colored offspring often appear in these mixes. Especially with a new and high-quality color form like the red onyx, such a mix would be a shame, so we recommend keeping the color pure in a species tank, possibly with peaceful snails. A socialization with nano fish would be conceivable, who do not see shrimp as food and are not too curious either.

After mating, females attach 20 to 40 fairly large eggs to their webbed feet below the abdomen. There they take care of the brood until the young hatch from the eggs after 3-4 weeks. They grow in fresh water without problems and can remain in the aquarium of their parents.

Prawns Neocaridina "Red Onyx" they are omnivores and eaters of leftovers. The brown autumn leaves in the aquarium are a good permanent food. In addition, it is better to provide the animals with a good shrimp feed, mainly of plant origin, and supplement this diet with a suitable protein feed once or twice a week.