Green Rilli

A green shrimp with a see-through middle — green head, clear body, green tail.

Arrives young and paler. The three-part pattern is there from the start; both the green and the clean break sharpen as they grow.

One price, no grades. Every one carries the pattern, but the bands are never perfectly neat, and how deep the green reads depends on your tank and light — sorting for either would just make them expensive.

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

Green Rilli pairs two of the most striking Neocaridina traits in one shrimp. The "Rili" trait is a genetic mutation that naturally suppresses pigmentation through the middle of the body, breaking the shrimp into coloured and transparent sections — a jelly-like effect that looks spectacular over dark substrate. Here that pattern comes in green, the rarest of the rili colours.

Like all Neocaridina they are hardy, prolific breeders that forgive a beginner's learning curve — green is simply one of the less colour-stable lines, so expect honest variation across a batch.

About the photo. We ship unsexed juveniles, so treat the pictured adult as the target, not the arrival. Both the green tone and the clean rili break sharpen with maturity — juveniles show a fainter, less-defined version of the same pattern.

Honest expectations, before you buy:

• The rili break: Green over the head and tail with a translucent, glassy midsection. The exact ratio and symmetry of the bands will not be flawless — in some the clear section runs wider, in others the green bleeds slightly into the middle. That is the gene, not a fault.
• Green needs light: Green pigment is dense — under a weak white light it can read as dark and muddy. A strong light and a settled tank are what let the green glow.
• Beginner-hardy: Wide tolerance of pH and hardness, no special substrate needed — a stable planted tank suits them.

Achieving a visually "perfect" rili pattern takes extreme, continuous culling, which drives prices to unreasonable levels — and green adds a second variable, because how deep the colour reads is set by your tank and lighting as much as by the shrimp. Grading here would really be grading our conditions, then charging you for a result we can't promise travels.

So Green Rillis are one grade, one price: robust unsexed juveniles from our colony, every one carrying the three-section rili genetics.