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Thank you guys...but not all success I can tell you that much, had a few deaths as well, especially with freshly moulted (berried) girls and shrimplets/juvies but it's the circle of life.

One of my tigers berried up last night, I watched her push her eggs from saddle to underbelly, with a hunched back she pushed, it was over in less than a minute! Amazing!

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OK this is in reply to Andrew's (MrShrimp AKA Super Prancer) comment "no photo's it didn't happen"

Berried Blonde Tiger

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OEBT

Before Berry

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Berried (hanging upside down on moss)

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Assuming its not photo shop your on a role chi. Nice work buddy. I call first dips

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Very cool Chi, the luck just keeps coming for you dude, great work :victorious:

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Very cool Chi' date=' the luck just keeps coming for you dude, great work :victorious:[/quote']

Thanks squigs but as mentioned earlier have had my share of bad luck as well...

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Chi, you definitely deserve it, so do pat yourself on the back. Passion and endurance gets us far in this hobby !

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Chi' date=' you definitely deserve it, so do pat yourself on the back. Passion and endurance gets us far in this hobby ![/quote']

Totally agree, give yourself a happy dance chi you deserve it :)

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LOL! Done and done...although it's the shrimp that did most the work!

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LOL! Done and done...although it's the shrimp that did most the work!

That may be but who got the conditions perfect for them to feel happy enough to breed so prolifically & I know you've had your fair share of bad luck but now everything is coming up roses :victorious:

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I was asked to post up a few pics of "potential" Hulks/Jelly's so here we go

Blue Jelly? (was so hard to get a pic of this guy he always hides behind the driftwood, had to shine a torch as he was in the shadows) He is a different blue than sibling panda/kk, he is more clear and blue like a OEBT. Hope you can see him at the base of the driftwood

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Two juvies 11 and 12 0clock from CRS mischling (they are a army green in reality, again very different colour from other juvie panda/kk

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What you guys think?

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Very cool Chi, well done :encouragement: They've definitely got a lot of potential, lets hope they don't get too dark when they grow up :victorious:

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Very cool Chi' date=' well done :encouragement: They've definitely got a lot of potential, lets hope they don't get too dark when they grow up :victorious:[/quote']

Yeah if I compare their colour to others their size you can tell the colour difference unless they are just slow to darken, but they are pretty big now.

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Chi...this is what you need to do...send the Green Hulk and Blue Jelly potential shrimp to me for proper identification. LOL, seriously fingers and toes cross !

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Thanks Everyone!

Chi...this is what you need to do...send the Green Hulk and Blue Jelly potential shrimp to me for proper identification. LOL, seriously fingers and toes cross !
LOL! don't worry BB I wont forget all you have done for me...
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Ok been a while since an update due to some issue with my tank where I am losing adults, shrimplets are fine just the mature adults are dying and it has really got me depressed...:sorrow:!

I am pretty sure it is bacterial...been adding beneficial bacteria to tank to see if it will help with the problem.

On a more happy note here are some pics of a blue jelly I took a snap off today...

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Looking very cool Chi, hope you don't loose too many more & sort everything out soon :encouragement:

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sorry to hear that man! that really sucks... unlike that awesome little blue jelly!! what a beauty!! Congrats!! :victorious:

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Ok been a while since an update due to some issue with my tank where I am losing adults' date=' shrimplets are fine just the mature adults are dying and it has really got me depressed...:sorrow:!

I am pretty sure it is bacterial...been adding beneficial bacteria to tank to see if it will help with the problem.

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Had the same thing happen to me this month. Probably lost half my colony but didnt lose a single shrimplet. Its so strange especially if nothing major has changed in your tank but there is a sudden die off. Mine happened roughly after the time i added some new shrimp.

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Had the same thing happen to me this month. Probably lost half my colony but didnt lose a single shrimplet. Its so strange especially if nothing major has changed in your tank but there is a sudden die off. Mine happened roughly after the time i added some new shrimp.

Yep that is the cause I am pretty sure of it! Will now be quarantining all new shrimp for 2 weeks...For all the $$$ we put in to these TB and then to see them dead really hurts and gets you down.

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