johnnytran Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Was just wondering if the darker jet blue/black shrimps are the same as the black rose. Here's a pic of some from my blue diamonds off springs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pictokid1983 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 yea i had the same result, one of my offspring was very dark and had shades of dark brown like chocolate shrimp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0pey Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 My dark ones eventually became really really blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Blue diamonds, black rose, and bloody marys all come from the chocolate diamond strain. Then they were selectively bred. pictokid1983 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnytran Posted August 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Oo I jus started separating the blues n darkblue/black into different tanks n throwing the reds n browns into a cull tanm johnnytran 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yeah. The chocolate diamond strain is probably the one with the most potential, however it is such a genetic milkshake it will take years to get anything to come near breeding true. pictokid1983 and jem_xxiii 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pictokid1983 Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Yeah. The chocolate diamond strain is probably the one with the most potential, however it is such a genetic milkshake it will take years to get anything to come near breeding true. lol @ d milkshake hahahah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Water7 Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 I'm interested in this chocolate diamond strain. Did it come out of the regular chocolate neos, or the other way around? How do they compare for ease of keeping with other varieties of neos? I had heard at one time that the blue diamonds were more challenging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 As far as I know, there's no written record of how it came about.. One theory is chocolates were bred from chocolate diamonds to breed more true. Another theory is different colors were mixed with chocolates to see what would come out. Take your pick. heh I have chocolate diamonds. They are no more difficult than red cherries in my opinion. BD were very sensative when I first bought them as a new import years ago. I lost maybe 2/3 in the first month. I was able to work with them to be more hardy- as other people have done too. When I sold off my stock, they were able to take what shrimpers in the US did to them. I think they may be pretty hardy in general by now, but I have no idea what the true breeding ratio is now. When I sold them off, they were maybe 20% true. I recently bought some black roses. Hopefully they'll do well for me. Usually they only breed 5% or so true, but the person I bought them from claims to have done a higher percentage pf 10% or so. My aim to to create a much higher percentage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Water7 Posted August 14, 2015 Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 Thank you so much Soothing Shrimp for that explanation. I am glad to know they are not especially difficult to keep. I had never heard of chocolate diamonds until I saw a picture you posted of them a while back. They are definitely interesting! Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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