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MrOrange Be nice I'm new here

MrOrange

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Since starting off getting shrimp, in the first week, I started w/ 5 yellow cherries, then 2 blue/choccy's & 2 sunkist. I found a couple molts. Then, last Wednesday, I got a few  red cherries, and now upon investigating my tank, (a now daily ritual), I found I have a berried red female!... woohoo! :)

.... now its just the month or so wait for shrimplets :p

(sorry, don't have pics up as yet)

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waffle Shrimp Lover

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Yay!! It's so excited to get started! Keeping them in the same tank at the moment?

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For now, yes. Yesterday was the first i noticed her berried, so I reckon I'll let her do the work and let things go natural as I'm not totally in it to breed... yet.. (we all know how 'plans' go :p ). atm I reckon if it's meant to be...

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Sounds like things are about to take off for u.if u eventually want to breed certain colors bare in mind they will breed together and affect your colouring :)

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Congrats MrOrange!! Now the long wait for the shrimplets to drop!! 

 

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...make that two berried now... both fem. are red cherry, but one w/ yellow eggs, the other w/ darker eggs. Haven't done my homework yet, but I might get an answer here a bit quicker on the question of what  the difference is?

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shrimplets now coming out of hiding into more open waters. It has resulted in red cherries.. and upon closer inspection, the two blue/choccys must have had some as well well.. woo hoo!  ...now just waiting for the Sunkist & yellows to hatch :)

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