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Well I've had a busy long weekend. I have decided to almost completely change direction with my shrimp breeding focusing much more on TB, Taitibees, CRS and CBS. Horror of horrors I actually put up several hundred shrimp for sale - me the shrimp hoarder has finally let go of lots of my lovely shrimpies! I even finally posted off the last of my Cherry varieties and now only have culls in a pond outside. I also sold of all my cull CRS, lots of Taitibees and most of my CBS colony. I have 2 people coming to pick out the remaining CBS and Tibees plus 3 people waiting to see if there are any left. So I have finally taken a step towards quality over quantity and will focus on pure line TB, TBM, Taitibees - I want to eventually put them into colour specific tanks to get them breeding true although with the Tibee genes in some lines that will take a while and hopefully they will still give me some nice surprises.

my push in this direction has come from this seasons babies. My Tibees are at least F8 and having mixed them with F8 Snow White Mischlings, TB and TBM I am now starting to see some beautiful colours - they are too small to photograph but even at this early stage I can see dark BB, RR, pinto types , pandas and KK even some extreme  RR. it has brought back a bit of excitement into the shrimp room and now I will have empty tanks to get ready for colour  coordination . I am looking forward to seeing how the babies progress - just have to keep them alive first!

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Its always a sad day when you have to sell shrimp but you have an aim to improve your quality and its worth it.

You can even use some of that money to fund the purchase of higher quality shrimp to help make a jump in quality faster. 

I am starting to have my own population booms in my PRL & BB sections and I am dreading trying to decide what will stay and what will go.

Cant wait to see some pictures. 

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I may buy some shrimp but I have noticed a vast improvement in my CRS already just by taking out the poorer quality males. I have also culled 90% of my CBS so hope to see improvement in the new babies. I bought some nice pure TB from Jamie plus some of his TBM so have new genes to add to what I have. I may consider buying a male Tiger for my Tibee line but not sure just yet. I'm just very excited seeing the new bubs . When I first started keeping shrimp nearly 4 years ago now I never dreamed I might have a colony of TB and now I might just get there. I remember drooling over Bluebolts ( Marcus) Blue Bolt shrimp and now I have 12. They were way out of my price range back then but now I can look forward to tanks with all my favourite shrimp types in them. What a change in such a short time! 

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Good on you for taking the plunge!  This was my plan too, but I haven't yet been able to bring myself to sell the majority of the colony I've been desperately trying to build for the last 2 years.  I did jump the first hurdle of selling some in the last auction, but then I ended up buying some of your shrimp* so now I have more shrimp overall and two tanks instead of one!  Agggghhhh, shrimp addiction! 

* They're doing well btw, plenty of sheds and at least 2 females berried.

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