Ghost Fire Red | Golden Eyes Genetic

A solid red shrimp with gold eyes instead of the usual black.

The gold eyes are there from day one. The red body arrives paler and more see-through, then fills in as they grow.

One price, no grades. The eyes either carry the gold or they don't, and a paler juvenile today tells you nothing about the adult it becomes.

Neocaridina — the easier of our two shrimp families, hardy and quick to breed. Numbers in the FAQ.

Ghost Fire Red is a Fire Red grade Neocaridina davidi — the solid, opaque, high-saturation end of the red cherry shrimp spectrum — carrying a golden eye mutation in place of the usual black. Like all Neocaridina, they’re hardy, forgiving of beginner mistakes, and breed readily once settled.

About the photo. We ship unsexed juveniles, so treat the pictured adult as the target, not the arrival. The red body opacifies with age — juveniles run paler and more see-through — while the gold eye is a fixed trait carried by the line from the start.

Two things define this line:

• The gold eye: A genetic mutation that swaps the standard black eye for gold — the trait this strain is named for.
• The Fire Red body: Solid, opaque red rather than the lighter, more translucent tone of a standard Red Cherry, deepening further as the shrimp matures.

We grade by the traits that genuinely vary within a batch — pattern density, colour saturation, how far colour wraps around the shell. Where those differences are visible in the tank from day one, we sort them and price each tier for what it actually is.

Ghost Fire Reds don’t split like that. The gold eye is either there or it isn’t — a fixed trait, not a gradient — and the red body follows the same maturity curve as any Fire Red, so a paler juvenile today says nothing about the adult it becomes.

So Ghost Fire Reds are one grade, one price — robust unsexed juveniles carrying the gold-eye trait from our line.