Have you noticed this about red cherry shrimp?

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I dont know about food, but it seems like the hikari shrimp cuisine is making them shine ;) A little bag of the hikari shrimp food is $6!!! Its worth it. They love munching on it.

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studd muffin;4495414; said:
I dont know about food, but it seems like the hikari shrimp cuisine is making them shine ;) A little bag of the hikari shrimp food is $6!!! Its worth it. They love munching on it.
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Man im gonna have to source some of that, i just won a batch of crystal reds and blacks in a raffle, does that hikari help with colour???
 
Danzig86;4495596; said:
Man im gonna have to source some of that, i just won a batch of crystal reds and blacks in a raffle, does that hikari help with colour???
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I cant guarantee you it will make them shine, but I noticed they were a wee bit more red.
 
This is just color in general.
Red opposes Green ##
Blue opposes Orange ##
Purple opposes Yellow ##

Those attract our eyes even without thinking.
Putting something bright in a dark surrounding is definately going to "brighten" it up,
It's really simple. ##### #####
Put a yellow #2 pencil on something purple.

So technically the shrimp would stand out best on green,
so probably a green or black or red substrate with lots of live plants and maybe a green background would MOST LIKELY (I've never tried it) work best.
And I'm sure lighting helps too. I've always just assumed that saltwater fish get their color from the sun.
 
I have 10 cherry shrimp. They go for my fallen fish flakes over my Hikari algae wafer and sinking wafers and I'm not sure why. I wanted to get the shrimp cuisine by Hikari but if they wont even look at the wafers I see no reason to. I sure wish they would eat the wafers, though. They are eating flakes made of shrimp >_<

On color, I also use T5HO lighting on black substrate. There are 3 cherry's that are very red. I'd say 5 are half red and the last 2 are almost completely white or clear. I do not see a difference in when they are on the substrate and when they are on the plants when talking about color. Also, I know which shrimp is which because their color does not change. I dont worry about health. I do 50% weekly water changes and previde plenty of algae, food, and cover :)
 
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