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So speaking of DIY here is the room where the tank will be and here is how the new stand will work (to clean up our messy room!) I've had the steel cut to the sizes 25mm x

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Looking wonderful! Loving the way the endlers school. Mine school like that occasionally but not often - possibly the shape of the tank allows for the way they swim, better than standard tank proportions? 

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Tank looks great and I love the ember tetras, I've got some of those! The scaping looks very natural, well done, it all paid off!

Any plans for shrimps in the future?

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Yeh blink and you miss it!

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There are 7 high quality blue dream shrimp in the tank.. they are hard to spot but will hopefully breed and thrive:)

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Wow, you went the same path with shrimp as I did in my first tank - less than 10 shrimp in a massive tank. Mine was a 110L haha. So hard to see the shrimp in there, and unfortunately they never bred for me. Hopefully you can get a colony out of those guys!

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 I think there are babies !!

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Its a bit hard to tell from the photo here but there are some really tiny shrimp appearing in the tank.  Also I am counting up to 7 visible at any one time - and including my loses I should have been down to 5... so I think they are breeding:)

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Its so very exciting.  There are even some tiny fire reds in my wife's tank so we have been really lucky I think.  

Have a great day all

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12 hours ago, Subtlefly said:

Its a bit hard to tell from the photo here

That photo could be used for a "Spot the baby shrimp" competition.

I can maybe see one or two but that's it.

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Hey JayC!  ?  there are only two shrimp (I think) - the point of my photo was to show that the one on the left is much smaller than the one on the right!

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Great news, those do look quite young and newborns will hide a lot of the time especially with preditors in the tank so you are unlikely to see them wit fish in the tank.

Have you seen any berried females? The larer one looks to be a male.

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Yeh its funny we haven't noticed any berried females, but maybe they are hiding during this phase?  - there is plenty of places in this tank to go unseen- I was freaking out because a couple of shrimp had died and I thought it was going to fail as a shrimp colony, but I have noticed recently that there are a lot of shrimp out and about and have been regularly counting five, six or even seven visible at one time.. so that combined with the appearance of a few really tiny guys (I am sure that they are smaller than the juveniles I put in originally) has me quietly confident that it is all onwards and upwards from here.

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Hey JayC!  ?  there are only two shrimp (I think) - the point of my photo was to show that the one on the left is much smaller than the one on the right!

? LOL.

And here I was straining to spot a new born in amongst that gravel.

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Me too, I even enlarged the picture. I saw lots of ember tetra hiding by the Java fern and some snails though!

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Wow , that's so beautiful now that the tank is matured.

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Tank looks great and good to see the ember tetras and blue shrimp also doing well!

Happy 2022 to you and everyon that reads this also.

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Always great to get an update!

Good to see the ember tetras and shrimp are doing well still.

That duckweed is vile stuff (looks ok when only a small bit in an aquarium) and so difficult to get rid of once in an aquarium and over runs so quickly?

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The duckweed can certainly be a pain!  I think the trade-off is that it is doing a great job mopping up all the nutrients

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      I've attached a small bit to the rock as the tank is currently cycling that had the crystal reds in it . I've always been torn between blue bolts and shadow pandas but blue bolts always wins. I never thought about taking some from my other tank and using them a tester but that is a good plan, saves me getting some blue bolts and then all of a sudden i have a big issue again. Hopefully not . That's why i am glad i have the bigger tank and also any of the lighter blue bolts can go into the bigger tank for culling. I've attached a few more favourite. My favourite shrimp which i think this is correct is an extreme bkk . I've also got a photo of one of my many red wines.  https://ibb.co/BVhDMMK https://ibb.co/42Q3ZYc https://ibb.co/gTD403T
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      It may be worth holding off on the subwassertang as when you set up the new tank you can then use it in there? I think I could see a few red wine, if they aren't full size, could just have been the light though! There are 3 half size white shrimp with a red head between the large crs in the third photo of the sponge (about half way down), they are beautiful also .They may just be crs but the photo looks redder than those, but may again just be the light! My overall favourites are blue bolts also. I would use some of the crs though for about 3 months as a tester before getting blue bolts for the re-setup tank, you can then remove the crs. You have lots of the crs and you know they are healthy so it makes sense to use them (free) to 'test' that all is ok first, before getting the blue bolts! It will help mentally also, just think how devastated you would be if for some reason the blue bolts died because there is a problem (you won't know with them whether it was the shrimp or the setup), whereas you would still be upset with the crs dying but not as much - they were free and you have plenty of others in the other tank. If you want blue bolts only in the tank you may well get offspring of other colour/pattern depending on the genes of the parents, but then they can be moved to the other tank. ie Blue bolt mother and blue bolt father may create something not blue bolt, depending on the genes etc. 
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      Thank you, i enjoy a simple scape although i really need to try and take both sections of subwassertang out for a trim. They have just gone mad.  Things are doing great in this tank, i love my red wines as well bit couldn't find any at the time of taking a photo.  There is but i'm not sure they would breed true, i suppose it could be a project for me to breed them true but wouldn't know where to start. My other project i was thinking is just blue bolts in that tank , i love the colour.  I also suffer from slow breeding in winter although i've never had so much success with my taiwans/mischling that i hope it continues. 
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