Blue Diamond Blue Diamond is the best shrimps we own. We sold a hundred of them a month. They help us to build the reputation and trust of customers until today. Blue Diamond is origin in nature but derived from the hybrid environment that began to appear on the market in 2012 from a shrimp farm in Taiwan. Start from Chocolate shrimp in hybrid pools. The first individuals are born mutations that create Black Rili (black ink in the middle of the inner body, like other rili) in mutants hey it's been discovered that there is pale black blue. They separated themselves for a new more pure bloody and black species decreasing is the new Blue Diamond Shrimp (Blue Royal) today with a very special green color Traditional. CARING - Blue Diamond is easy to care for as they can adapt to a wide range of water parameters, they can be kept in either soft or hard water. We recommend keeping them in hard water with a gH of at least 5 for them to show their best color. The aquarium should be fully cycled before introducing any shrimp. There should be no trace of Ammonia and Nitrite, Nitrate under 25ppm. A weekly water change of 10-20% is suggested to keep the nitrate low. Feed only 2-3 times a week as overfeeding will cause shrimp death. BREEDING - Breeding Blue Diamond is fairly easy, if there is a male and female in the aquarium, they will breed. Female shrimp will carry the eggs for about 30 days until they are hatched to the miniature size of their parents. It is important to have a well-established aquarium in order for the shrimplets to survive as they can only consume biofilms until they grow older. We recommend only keeping one strain of Neocaridina shrimp per tank because of crossbreeding, which will revert the offspring back to wild color. Water Parameters: pH 6.5 - 7.5 gH 6 - 12 kH 0 -10 TDS 150-300 Temperature 18-28°C