Are Rili Shrimp considered RCS or CRS?

lozt

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Are Rili Shrimp considered RCS or CRS?
Do they require RO water or would they do just fine in normal tap water?

 

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They are Neocaridina heteropoda, aka a RCS variant. So tap water is usually fine for them.

 

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a lot of crystal reds are fine in tap as well.

like qwe said they are easy and tap should be fine.

 

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Do you know which crystal reds variant would do fine in tap?
I have had some RCS (until my niece decided to feed the fishes), so now I'm wondering if I could be able to have some other types of shrimps.

 

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the lower grades such as the b-a even s. i have some ss right now in my tap which is hard water and 7.8 ph. there are so many shrimp out there that will be fine in most tap water.

 

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A lot of CRS will do fine in tap water, the problem is breeding. Often if the water is not spot on the babies just don't survive.

 

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thanks for clearing that up for me.