Green Emerald

A deep green shrimp — glowing emerald rather than the muddy brown-green sold elsewhere.

Arrives young and paler — and often pale or even blue straight out of the bag. The green comes back within about a week, faster in a settled tank. It needs a strong light to show; under a weak light they read as almost black.

One price, no grades. How deep the green goes depends on your tank, not ours, so sorting here would be selling you a result we can't promise travels.

Neocaridina — easy to keep and quick to breed, though holding the deepest green takes a stable tank. Numbers in the FAQ.

Dark green Neocaridina are usually sold as “Green Diamond” or “Green Jade.” We call ours Green Emerald because it isn't the same shrimp. Mass-market stock is genetically unstable and often throws a muddy brown tint — we've line-bred this colony to breed that fault out, selecting for brighter green and denser shell opacity. The result is a glowing emerald that holds, with far fewer brown offspring.

About the photo. That's an adult under premium WRGB lighting. We ship unsexed juveniles, so treat the image as the target: in a settled tank the green pigment thickens with age into an opaque emerald saturation. Like all Neocaridina they breed prolifically and forgive a beginner's learning curve — it's holding the deepest green that takes a stable tank.

An advanced colour line. Three realities worth knowing before you buy:

• Blue flesh underneath: The tissue beneath the shell carries a blue base, so the tone is dynamic — stress from shipping or a new tank can shift their colour dramatically. A Green Emerald often arrives pale or blue. That is normal: the green returns within about a week, faster in a settled tank and slower in a new one. Give it time before you worry.
• Stability locks the colour: Green fluctuates with water parameters. A fully cycled, stable tank is what holds the deep emerald.
• Lighting is not optional: The pigment is dense enough that standard white light can't penetrate it — they'll read as near-black. High-intensity WRGB is what unlocks the glow.

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.

Green Emeralds aren't like that, because their final saturation is set by your tank rather than ours — blue-based flesh, stress shifting, maturity and lighting all decide where a juvenile lands. Two shrimp from one batch can diverge months later on water stability alone. Tiering them here would really be grading our conditions, then charging you for a result we can't promise travels.

So Green Emeralds are one grade, one price — robust unsexed juveniles from the refined line we bred to cut out the brown throwbacks.