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Painted Fire Red Shrimp: What's a Fair Price?

Painted Fire Red Shrimp cost $2.50–$4.00 per shrimp today; the median is $4.00. Based on 5 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 2 US vendors, updated September 2, 2026.

Cheapest per vendor

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 Painted Fire Red Shrimp today ($4.00) is 1.6× the lowest ($2.50). That is a fairly tight range, meaning vendors broadly agree on what this shrimp is worth right now. When judging a price, the median ($4.00) 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. Note that 7 of 9 tracked listings are in stock right now; today's stats come from the in-stock ones.

Keeping them alive once they arrive

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Price history

The per-shrimp market median for Painted Fire Red Shrimp has held steady across all 50 days we've tracked it. That's normal here: US dwarf shrimp prices hold still rather than drifting — genuine repricings are vanishingly rare across the whole index (we measured this across the whole market) — so today's numbers above are a dependable benchmark, not a snapshot of a jittery market.

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 Painted Fire Red Shrimp cost?

The median is $4.00 per shrimp, based on 5 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 2 US vendors as of September 2, 2026. The range runs from $2.50 per shrimp at the low end to $4.00 at the high end.

Which vendor has the cheapest Painted Fire Red Shrimp?

Coast Gem USA has the lowest verified per-shrimp price at $2.50 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.

Which vendors sell Painted Fire Red Shrimp?

2 of the US shrimp vendors the index tracks list them as of September 2, 2026: Coast Gem USA at $2.50 per shrimp and Superior Shrimp Aquatics at $4.00 per shrimp. Each figure is that vendor's cheapest current listing.

Has the price of Painted Fire Red Shrimp changed?

No. The per-shrimp market median has held steady at $4.00 on every one of the 50 days the index has tracked them. US dwarf shrimp prices hold still rather than drifting: the index has yet to observe a single genuine repricing of a shrimp listing.

Are Painted Fire Red Shrimp in stock right now?

7 of the 9 listings the index tracks for them were in stock as of September 2, 2026, across 2 vendors.

Cite this page: Shrimp Price Index, "Painted Fire Red Shrimp price," data through September 2, 2026. https://shrimppriceindex.com/morphs/painted_fire_red

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We check Painted Fire Red Shrimp prices at every vendor we track, every day. How the index works · Cheapest shrimp today