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starting to set up a new tank

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while i was waiting for the plants to arrive in the mail, my mate was heading to the creek to get some food for the fish so i asked him to save me any coloured ones

i was aiming for blue but found some orangey rifles that have now turned bright red (is this a stress thing?)

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and found some other red and blue thing

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Farma where do you live that you kind find these in a local creek? that second blue/red shrimp is berried, was it like that or since adding it to the tank?

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it came berried! i live on the Kalang river just out of Bellingen, im pretty sure the shrimp came from the bellinger river though

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below dorrigo on the river or somewhere either side?

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wow those riffles look real nice! now i want to go shrimping and get some for a native shrimp tank:D

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very nice find mate, not sure about the color change reasons mate as i dont keep riffles.

but most shrimp darken when they are happy.

on another not the last shrimp has very small eggs which i think means that needs brackish water at some stage in babies life??

i seem to remember reading that somewhere.

is the river fresh or salt/tidal

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Dean im not sure as id say these were from close to town in bellingen and in town its not far off brackish, but i find them out here berried too and im at least 5-6kms from anything slightly brackish so i dunno if they move down to it or not?

Loach to be honest if they trample my fissidens one more time their probably gone lol

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Having kept the riffles before (funnily enough from the second creek system south of Belligen), mine tended to go red when the water was warm >25, so i think it may be a stress response, however i never found that they died because of it. Mine tended to find their way out of the tank (and dry up), being wild caught i think they have more of a climbing/escape/migration instinct than RCS or other similar shrimp.

Hang onto them just for the novelty of watching them use their fanned feet to catch stuff out of the water.

Your other coloured ones are probably some sort of glass shrimp, i find they lose their colours when kept in tanks which is a shame cause i have caught some of the most fantastically blue coloured shrimp.

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