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Heavyd Shrimp Master

Heavyd

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Check out this little guy:

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You guys weren't kidding when you say that chocolates throw out some variety. I think I've seen a couple more like this one as well. I'll put them aside and see how they compare to the blues I already have.

Just wondering for those who have started to breed the blues from chocolates. How do you go when you put two of these blues together? What kind of offspring are you getting? How many generations till you start to get good results and nice strong blue?

Cheers,

D

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Triggs Shrimp Breeder

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That's a nice looking little blue!

Congrats on the find and offspring

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Gbang Shrimp Master

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woohoo!!!! in my experience i have only just started to pick out a few blues in my colony of chocolates and have just separated them into another tank so my results should come out in about 2-3 months? a lot of my blues went back to brown but with a blue tinge which is really cool but under black substrate they went very dark. so i'm using a bare tank at the moment so i can keep an eye on their colours with the ones i've selected. so far i have only seen three that i like in my colony. any more pics?

i suppose dean is the closest person to trying to get these blues going?

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Heavyd Shrimp Master

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I'll get some more pics as they grow. Still quite small at the moment.

I'm curious how Dean's experience went with them......

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Dean Shrimp Master

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great find mate,

its still a work in progress for me mate, takes a long time to create lines of shrimp and 1 wrong cross breed and your back to square one :)

i and others are getting some interesting results but nothing 100% yet

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Nice find. one thing I like about shrimp you never quite know what your going to get

Those Chocolate Cherries are like a box of chocolates .....

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