Chocolate Shrimp — one of the cherry shrimp varieties owners search for by name.
Chocolate Shrimp is one of the cherry shrimp varieties people look up by name. This page answers the questions owners actually type about chocolate shrimp, then points you to 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: Chocolate 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 Chocolate 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 We do not publish variety-specific temperament, lifespan or weight numbers that we cannot source.
They graze biofilm and algae and take shrimp-specific pellets, blanched zucchini, spinach or pea. Feed small amounts once a day or every other day and remove leftovers — uneaten food is an ammonia factory, and ammonia is the number one cherry shrimp killer.
Safe: small peaceful fish such as neon tetras, guppies and pygmy corydoras, plus other shrimp and snails. Avoid: bettas (many hunt shrimp), loaches, cichlids and anything with a mouth big enough to swallow an adult.
This is one of the questions people actually type about chocolate shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Chocolate Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
This is one of the questions people actually type about chocolate shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Chocolate Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
This is one of the questions people actually type about chocolate shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Chocolate Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
This is one of the questions people actually type about chocolate shrimp. The sourced cherry shrimp answer lives in our species hub, linked from this page — the same rules apply to Chocolate Shrimp as to any other cherry shrimp variety.
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