I have a shrimp tank right now with a small colony of Red Cherry Shrimp and was looking to add something else. New shrimp or invertebrates would be great!
20 gal Cherry Shrimp Tank Mates
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Shrimp-wise, anything other than Neocaridina specimens should be fine -- to avoid interbreeding of colors. I'm planning on adding Green Babaulti shrimps to my Red Cherries tank to have an year-round "Christmas" effect in that tank. 
Inverts wise, maybe snails? Nerites or Brigs? Tylos?
Have you considered fish?
Inverts wise, maybe snails? Nerites or Brigs? Tylos? Have you considered fish?
They really are.
Try googling images -- once they are established and mature, they look very nice. MissJinkzd (Queen of Inverts) is actually selling some right now and I'm purchasing them from her. I'm really excited -- Christmas in my tank 365 days of the year. 
Here's a link for her sales thread. I highly highly recommend her.
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219112
xsdbs- i have a few pictures on my DSLR at home, ill post them tonight on here if i can figure it out. The Cherry Shrimp are really cute lil guys i got like 20 of them back in the summer and they just love it now
I keep a sexed pair of Dwarf Cajun Crayfish and lots of Malawa shrimp (they won't interbreed with RCS) in my RCS tank with much success. They're all breeding, though I've had low survival of the cray babies.
How are Malawa shrimp? I have not heard much about them. I would be interested in trying microcrabs but I cannot seem to find them for any less than $75 V_V
Malawa shrimp are great! They're more active than Neocaridina shrimp (RCS, yellows, snowball, blue pearl), very hardy, and very prolific (probably moreso than RCS). They prefer a higher PH like Neocaridina shrimp so they're easy tank mates. I have Malawas in almost all of my tanks.
The only downside is that they're more subtly colored - meaning mostly transparent. I have some that are slight shades of blue and some that are a pretty rust-red color. Most are fairly transparent. I can tell them from the other shrimp because they have distinctive eyes and heads, apart from their color.
I stayed away from micro crabs due to their cost and the fact that no one's gotten them to reproduce successfully in an aquarium.
The only downside is that they're more subtly colored - meaning mostly transparent. I have some that are slight shades of blue and some that are a pretty rust-red color. Most are fairly transparent. I can tell them from the other shrimp because they have distinctive eyes and heads, apart from their color.
I stayed away from micro crabs due to their cost and the fact that no one's gotten them to reproduce successfully in an aquarium.