Tampa, Florida · summer 2026

The
Shrimp
Crash.

"Join me as I attempt to crash the red cherry shrimp market. Red cherry shrimps are overpriced. I am breeding them and I will sell them for a very, very low price, forcing the other people to sell them at a low price also."@smaq.adri, Tampa · July 10
June 1

It started as a poll.

Muhammad had a spare nano tank hooked to his "inter-aquarium travel system". The plan was a puffer fish. He asked the internet instead.

The puffer fish
Crash the market
"More people would rather see me crash the red cherry shrimp market than see a cute puffer fish in my aquarium, so I'm going to buy a bulk order of red cherry shrimps now and start breeding."June 2
June 6

Twenty overpriced shrimp.

"My plan is to breed them and sell them for a ridiculously low price, so everyone else that is overcharging will be forced to sell it at a lower price."

$5 each
July 10

Twenty-seven.

Two weeks away on a trip, then an update: zero deaths, seven babies. "I don't think a small colony of 27 cherry shrimps will be able to help me crash the red cherry shrimp market. I need help." That video did numbers.

20shrimp in the colony
43likes on the update
July 25

"Don't make the same mistake as me."

"I was getting pest control done in my house and I made sure the spray does not get near my tanks. I completely forgot about my air pump because it sits lower than my tanks, so I sprayed directly onto the air pump. It injected the air right into my tank, which caused three of my shrimps to die."

July 12 – August 10

They joined.

Within days, strangers were buying shrimp to give away. A guy who "thought it was just a joke. And then I went to Petco." A breeder called OVR Exotics. A student in the UK.

"I'm going to help this guy breed shrimp, and then give them out to people who want them for their fish tanks, in hopes of bringing down the shrimp pricing by at least like one penny."@jackmarusa · July 12
"I got a couple berries, hopefully we got more babies. Big Shrimp wants to stop us."OVR Exotics · August 1
"I've teamed up with Muhammad to give away a colony of cherry shrimp to one lucky winner in the UK. Let's crash the shrimp market."UK · day 16 of trying to reach 1,000 followers · August 10
August 11

Big Shrimp.

"Pet Supermarket is selling the lowest grade of red cherry shrimps for five dollars. That's a ripoff. They should cost at most 75 cents."

$8high grade, shop
$5lowest grade, shop
75¢the crash price
August 14 – 19

Then all the colors.

hygger sent 24 high-grade shrimp — highlighter yellow, blue dream, orange. He put them all in one water system. "Once they start breeding with each other they lose their colors and they revert back to this color that is a wild type." So every color needs its own tank.

August 16 · Left mixed, they breed back to this: wild type, no color.
"I originally planned to crash only the red cherry shrimp market, but now I'm planning to crash the markets for all of the colors from the Neocaridina shrimps."August 19
August 19 – 20

A tank for shrimp.

He needed tanks to separate the colors. A follower DMed: a 10-gallon tank, paid in shrimp. "It came with, he gave me a free air pump with it and the free queen ant. It's alive."

One 10-gallon tank
+ air pump + queen ant
Some shrimp
That's the whole site. Free, cheap, or trade. Pay in shrimp.
Now0

people joined.

of them are breeders on the chart. Columns are colors; rows are people, each one holding the pledge: never more than a dollar a shrimp. Culls free. Bring a cup.