Neocaridina red
Fire Red Shrimp: What's a Fair Price?
Fire Red Shrimp cost $3.00–$4.09 per shrimp today; the median is $3.20. Based on 6 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 2 US vendors, updated September 2, 2026.
Cheapest per vendor
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| Vendor | Listing | Per shrimp | Listing price | Stock | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Shrimp Aquatics | Fire Red Cherry Shrimp — 5 (5 shrimp) | $3.00 | $15.00 | in stock | view → |
| Tropicflow | Fire Red Neocaridina Shrimp — Pack of 20 + 2 (Save 10%) (22 shrimp) | $3.41 | $75.00 | in stock | view → |
| The Shrimp Farm | Fire Red Cherry Shrimp for Sale (Shipping 9/8/26) | pack-priced | $54.99 | in stock | view → |
| Shrimpy Business | Deluxe Breeder Pack — Fire Red Cherry | pack-priced | $116.40 | in stock | view → |
Per-shrimp prices are computed from pack size (a $33 ten-plus-one pack is $3.00/shrimp). Shipping and live-arrival guarantee terms differ by vendor and can change which one is cheapest to your door.
Reading today's numbers
The highest per-shrimp price for Fire Red Shrimp today ($4.09) is 1.4× the lowest ($3.00). That is a fairly tight range, meaning vendors broadly agree on what this shrimp is worth right now. When judging a price, the median ($3.20) is the better anchor than the low: the cheapest listing can be a large-pack price or a lower grade. If a quote is well above the median, check the vendor table above to see what grade or pack you're comparing against.
Keeping them alive once they arrive
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A new colony needs stable, tested water and shrimp-appropriate food more than anything else. Chewy — a general pet retailer that sells no live shrimp and is not one of the vendors this index tracks — carries shrimp food, water test kits, and water conditioners.
Price history
The per-shrimp market median for Fire Red Shrimp has changed 2 times in 50 days of tracking. Median shifts here usually come from the in-stock mix changing rather than vendors repricing (how these prices actually behave). Genuine repricings land on the price drops page as we observe them.
Common questions
Every answer below is computed from this page's own numbers at build time, and updates with the daily data refresh.
- How much do Fire Red Shrimp cost?
- The median is $3.20 per shrimp, based on 6 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 2 US vendors as of September 2, 2026. The range runs from $3.00 per shrimp at the low end to $4.09 at the high end. 2 other vendors sell them in packs whose animal count the listing doesn't state (The Shrimp Farm and Shrimpy Business), so those listings are excluded from the per-shrimp figures rather than divided by a guessed pack size.
- Which vendor has the cheapest Fire Red Shrimp?
- Superior Shrimp Aquatics has the lowest verified per-shrimp price at $3.00 per shrimp, as of September 2, 2026. Prices exclude shipping and live-arrival guarantee terms, which differ by vendor and can change which store is cheapest to your door. Pack listings without a stated animal count cannot be compared per shrimp and are left out of this comparison.
- Which vendors sell Fire Red Shrimp?
- 4 of the US shrimp vendors the index tracks list them as of September 2, 2026: Superior Shrimp Aquatics at $3.00 per shrimp, Tropicflow at $3.41 per shrimp, The Shrimp Farm at $54.99 per pack (animal count not stated) and Shrimpy Business at $116.40 per pack (animal count not stated). Each figure is that vendor's cheapest current listing.
- Has the price of Fire Red Shrimp changed?
- Yes. The per-shrimp market median has changed 2 times across the 50 days the index has tracked them. Shifts here come from the in-stock mix changing — listings selling out or restocking — rather than vendors repricing.
- Are Fire Red Shrimp in stock right now?
- 10 of the 10 listings the index tracks for them were in stock as of September 2, 2026, across 4 vendors.
Cite this page: Shrimp Price Index, "Fire Red Shrimp price," data through September 2, 2026. https://shrimppriceindex.com/morphs/fire_red
Related reading from our data
- What Cherry Shrimp Cost: The Red Neocaridina Family, Priced
- What a Shrimp Grade Is Actually Worth
- The Bulk Discount, Measured: What Pack Size Does to Per-Shrimp Price
We check Fire Red Shrimp prices at every vendor we track, every day. How the index works · Cheapest shrimp today