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Is that the one in the breeder box?

That was berried? Yes

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The highs and lows of shrimp keeping.

Finally see some success in females getting berried and then I've lost them both. Last night that female Misch got knocked up by one of the TB (BB or Panda) and then this morning she is dead.

Lucky I had the egg tumbler already running. But any offspring that make it will have to go into a cull tank, as I won't know what's what. Almost PRL and Misch x TB will be hard to differentiate surely and I'd prefer to keep my lines in check.

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Alive last night

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Dead this morning

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Egg harvesting

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Do u dissect the eggs out? What tumbler do u use?

Yeah dissect them out of the body. Egg tumbler is DIY but going to order one from Kitz.

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Looks like this lady is saddled, w/c time ;)

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A few pics to update.

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Thanks for sharing the pics. How is the egg tumbler going?

 

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Thanks for sharing the pics. How is the egg tumbler going?

 

Well the one remaining egg is doing fine. I lost all the others to fungus due to design flaws in my DIY setup.

The Ziss one is very easy to setup and tune flow rate. It's also really clear so you can see the eggs rolling around. glad I've got it now for the inevitable berried shrimp death.

Such nice shrimp

Thanks Oz

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Some recent pics.... Cold weather brings on the action!

CRS from HeavyD

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My Misch tank

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looking good man

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looking good man

Thanks@disciple once the BB from you and CRS from Ineke join the ranks (from QT) my shrimp collection will stay as it is for a while. Going to work with the bloodlines I now have until I build up my stock levels again.

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So it seems the BB in the pic above I'd figured as being male. Reason is if seen it zooming and chasing a female Misch just after she had moulted. So I'd searched around for a pure female BB as I thought I only had mature males.

Sourced a couple from@disciple which I'm very happy with..... However today I found the male like this... yes those are eggs!

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Slightly annoying but happy at the same time LOL

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d0a1e08d58e8a25e6ed37f518d7246a8.jpg CRS from ineke are looking healthy and ready to join main colony, but I might wait until they breed together so I get more lol before adding the new bloodline.

This is where they will end up

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CB Misch looks to have dropped. 5 spotted so far.

Only BB in there with her but offspring look to be CR or maybe WR?

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Been spotting a few of the Misch Shrimplets the last few days and I'm very excited to say I have my first TBM

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Most of the other siblings appear to be CR or CB patterns, except this one that's hard to ID

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And who doesn't love a video of a berried female

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The action is picking up.

Crs from@HeavyD have had first drop.

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My Pure TB Panda have had first drop

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Tough to spot

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So it seems these dividers have been a failure. Mesh is not fine enough. With all the breeding action I've been finding Shrimplets distributed amongst all the different sections.

It means all my current batch of Shrimplets with the exception of the Shadow Pandas (easily differentiated from CRS and CBS) will have to go into Misch or Other Projects.

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Good news is at least the issue has shown up now and not when new sump/rack tank is built. Won't use the same mesh for the dividers, will have to go finer!

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Latest pics, finally got my slave flash units set up and working for some ok-ish macro pics.

Not all these are DSLR, some were just with iPhone and magnifying glass ;)

iPhone pics

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DSLR
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Loving this series of images! Looks like your shrimp programs are doing great!! Congrats!

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Those DSLR pics are looking great. Focus on the eyes and the rest of the shrimp should look more in focus but doing well mate.

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3 hours ago, NoGi said:

Those DSLR pics are looking great. Focus on the eyes and the rest of the shrimp should look more in focus but doing well mate.

@NoGi thanks for he tip, hopefully this will improve my photos in the future, practice, practice and more practice also need to get one of the lens attachments from @newbreed for those quick photos hopefully bringing those into focus as well.

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I hate losing shrimp, but it allows for some unique pics

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