Picture-style visual source and lineage tree
This tree maps documented source names to advertised phenotype categories. The three subjects are unrelated independent commercial histories. Disconnected ancestry boxes identify unknown parents and missing allele studies without inventing a cross.
Historical Neocaridina changes
MADSHRIMP retrospectively records Cherry, Rili, Chocolate, Blue and Green Jade releases, with Green Jade and Peacock Green around 2016 and Red Onyx/Golden Sands around 2020. Dates are trade memories, not independently proven first breeders.
Purples, Grape and uncounted 90%
MADSHRIMP saw purple tints in Taiwanese Nanacy-related stock around 2015 and reports stabilizing later Purple King Kong; a 90% offspring similarity claim was published without brood counts and is NOT a universal prediction. A first name 'Joseph' is associated with Grape label, no identity or cross documented.
Orange eyes, sex and pattern selection
Golden/orange eyes are a separate observed phenotype that appears on Neocaridina and Caridina labels. Eye pigmentation can accompany weaker body masking, but no specific allelic dominance or cross species hybrid origin is proven here. MADSHRIMP correctly challenges the myth that genes inherited from male shrimp are intrinsically dominant.
Visual family tree is not a genotype tree
No parent fish/shrimp photographs were fabricated, no breeder images republished without rights, and no F1 or F2 numerical ratios are inferred from seller prices, grades, or competition categories.
History and method references
- Demin Wong history of Neocaridina trade selection through 2022 (Breeder first-person regional history)
Founder years and yearly volumes are retrospective recollections, not a primary scientific register
- Demin Wong 2021 Taiwan purple metallic/King Kong trade history (First-person retailer historical account)
2015/2020 year claims and 90% offspring resemblance are uncounted and unvalidated
- 2025 colored-eye Caridina/Neocaridina breeding challenges (Breeder/retailer first-party history)
May mention breeder opinions, not allele tests
- 2023 breeder critique of male-genetic dominance myth (Breeder genetic literacy commentary)
Good critique, but still not genotype assay
- 2023 fancy tiger selection and backcross account (Breeder retrospective cross history)
Unscored F1 images and assertion of black dominance cannot establish a validated gene
- Galactic Shrimps public inventory and family descriptions (First-party retailer catalogue)
Availability/labels may change, species and phenotype assignment require verification
- Galactic Shrimps Polish Caridina catalogue (First-party retail catalogue)
Type category and label not independent genetic certification
- Galactic Shrimps Polish Neocaridina catalogue (First-party retail catalogue)
Trade phenotype currently presented by supplier, not founding pedigree or molecular inheritance