Blue Velvet Shrimp — one of the 6 cherry shrimp varieties owners look up by name.
Blue Velvet Shrimp is one of the cherry shrimp varieties people search for by name. This page covers what owners actually ask about it, then hands you the sourced cherry shrimp care guidance that applies to every variety.
The hardest-working algae crew in the hobby — breeds in tap water, colors up in clean tanks, and costs almost nothing to keep.
Quick answer: Blue Velvet Shrimp is a variety of cherry shrimp. Everything on this page is cherry shrimp-level guidance — we do not invent variety-specific numbers.
The care below is cherry shrimp-level guidance from our species hub, sourced to Merck Veterinary Manual — Invertebrates: Husbandry and Diseases and RSPCA — Aquarium invertebrates and water quality. It applies to Blue Velvet Shrimp exactly as it applies to every other cherry shrimp variety. We do not publish variety-specific temperament, lifespan or weight numbers that we cannot source.
Adults reach about 2.5–3 cm (1 inch). Females are noticeably larger and rounder than males, especially when carrying eggs; a deep, uniform color means a healthy, well-fed shrimp, while pale or patchy color usually points at water quality or diet.
Typically 1–1.5 years, occasionally up to 2 in very stable water. Because they breed continuously, a thriving colony replaces itself — individual shrimp are short-lived, but the population is not.
This is one of the questions people actually type about blue velvet shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Blue Velvet Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
This is one of the questions people actually type about blue velvet shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Blue Velvet Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
This is one of the questions people actually type about blue velvet shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Blue Velvet Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
This is one of the questions people actually type about blue velvet shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Blue Velvet Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
This is one of the questions people actually type about blue velvet shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Blue Velvet Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
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