Interbreeding Shrimp

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Yadokari

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Anyone have any useful sites or know any info about interbreeding yellow/cherry shrimp?
I'm also interested in information about crystal reds/black interbreeding.

What is the probability of their offspring (color wise)?
Example- Yellow/Cherry: 25% yellow, 10% red, 40% brown, 25% other

What colors will come out from the yellow/cherry offspring aside from brown?
What about crystals? Will they all revert to crystal black or will there be some black and some red offspring?

Thanks in advance! :)
 
I don't know of a statistical break down for the offspring. I think that with cherry shrimp and yellow that the red would be dominant over the yellow.
 
CRS first:

A Crystal Black Shrimp (AKA Bee Shrimp) is the dominant expression of a double recessive gene so if you were to breed a Bee with a CRS all the off spring would be Bee Shrimp that are carrying the recessive red gene.

If those off spring were to breed, statistics would say 50% of them would be red. Now of course all this goes right out the window if the Bee Shrimp was already carrying the red gene.

Cherry/Yellow Shrimp:

I am currently experimenting with this to see what happens. I expect that the bulk of the young will be wild colored.

Semantics:
Bee/CRS are both the same species and Cherry/Yellow are both the same species so it is not interbreeding. It is just breeding. The young shrimp are not hybrids, they would just be color morphs.
 
Thanks for the input.

And yeah, I know they're the same species in terms of yellow/red and red/black pairing, that's why they even breed with each other. I used the term interbreeding because people most often keep the two apart, therefore, interbreed = mixing the colors, not mixing species. I'm not even gonna go all technical about it...

I'm tempted in experimenting now :s
 
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