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Baccus Shrimp Master

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Just wanted to share a couple of pics of one of these lovely little ladies. They arrived yesterday and are already starting work out their blending colours for the tank.

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So far they have taken posseion of the log, but once the plants fill out in the tank I am sure they will be all over the place. I was lucky to in that one of the females dropped her shrimplets in transit and the tiny bubs are also finding their way about the tank.

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Great. What are their preferred WP ? Are they considered easy to keep, and presume will breed in tank conditions ?

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It's all a bit of a learning curve with them, but they should be easier to keep than Caridina Zebras since these guys are from the NT and not I guess highland cool water. The main thing said about them is that they need their water aged before being added to the tank, so the standard drop and top and add dechlorinator as you go is not advised.

They will breed in tank conditions, they have large eggs and newborn shrimplets are roughly newborn cherry shrimp sized. The ones I got where pond raised but are used to prepared foods and so far they have shown great liking for a native fish crumble that I have as well as a native shrimp pellet designed for crays and shrimp. They are also throughly enjoying picking all over the log in the tank and sifting through the sand. I was surprised that they are also relatively calm and not freaked out about hands in the tank or a face peering at them through the glass.

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Just be thankful I didn't post the pic where she is looking directly at me, talk about impossible to see. It wsa really hard to find her in the view finder on the camera, she was doing such a good cammo job LOL.

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Some more pictures of one of these pretty girls, if you look closesly she is berried.

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Last picture was with a flash to try and show the bars on her back

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I just received a handful of these guys as well. I also had a lot of shrimplets in the water they arrived in. I'll try and get some photos up when I finally see them.

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the bit on the web site about aged water is me having a go at the practise of putting chlorinated tap water into the aquarium then adding the dechlorinator after. some people do that which is not good for the shrimps. They come from an area near the estuary but will breed ok in fresh. I know this because I caught their grandparents.

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the bit on the web site about aged water is me having a go at the practise of putting chlorinated tap water into the aquarium then adding the dechlorinator after. some people do that which is not good for the shrimps. They come from an area near the estuary but will breed ok in fresh. I know this because I caught their grandparents.

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Here i was leaving mine in a bucket for a week with dechlorinator... A little too paranoid.

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I thought it was high time I updated some pictures of these little gems. They are breeding like crazy but the young seem to take a while to fully mature, which I guess is a good thing it means they aren't growing super quick and burning their lives up quickly.

The tank now has a heavy tannin stain happening and I recently added Australian blackworms to see if the shrimp will eat them (like they do blood worms) and if the black worms will eat the left over skeletons of the many leaves that get added to the tank.

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Thanks, I like their varying patterns and willingness to breed well, even if they are hard to find all the time in their very brown tank.

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Some more pics of my little Blackmores

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The stringy stuff sticking up around her is blackworms, I thought they would help in the reduce food for the pest snails stakes.

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A very berried girl.

??? Not really 100% sure on this next one

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