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If you keep black and red in the same tank and they interbreed what do you get? ( besides shrimplets)

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oK thanks for that I thought that might be the case.

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Ineke

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I'm just asking because I now have an empty 34 litre tank. I was getting some Rilis but I don't think that is happening now. I don't know whether to get some CBS or to try and source some Rilis- just can't have an empty tank!!!!

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I'm just asking because I now have an empty 34 litre tank. I was getting some Rilis but I don't think that is happening now. I don't know whether to get some CBS or to try and source some Rilis- just can't have an empty tank!!!!

Woah...extremely rare in our hobby to have a spare tank, nice problem to have...sigh. Selective breeding for quality is always encourage.....my advise, anything that makes you smile when you see it, is the one to get !

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Thanks BB Now I know not to put CRS and CBS together it is probably going to be CBS that will make me smile!!!

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Great choice, we need more hobbyist focused on CBS, as it's quality in Aust isn't very good. Would love to see you colony of CBS ?

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I only have some of Gbangs CRS C grade at the moment just to make sure I can keep them alive. I will go and have a look at some SS CBS here in SA someone is selling them for $6 . Don't know if they are members of SKF but as I'm still on restricted budget it would be a start.

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Woah...extremely rare in our hobby to have a spare tank' date=' nice problem to have...sigh. Selective breeding for quality is always encourage.....my advise, anything that makes you smile when you see it, is the one to get ![/quote']

Black tigers it is then!.... Good choice ineke! LOL!

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CRS and the like are not hard to look after its more about making sure you have a stable environment for them to go into :)

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CRS and the like are not hard to look after its more about making sure you have a stable environment for them to go into :)

I read your earlier reply about leaving things alone once they are stable and I fully agree with you. I think we do tend to play around with WP especially when new like me.

My main problem is I am doing this on limited funding and I would be worried about losing a more expensive shrimp ( I worry about the cheaper ones too) because I can't really afford it. I am no longer working so losing a $25 or more shrimp would hit me hard. Apart from my red cherries my shrimp are all culls so they were cheap when you don't count the delivery costs. As I am just doing it as a little hobby to keep me busy the quality isn't so important and the really bad ones can go and live with the fish -the ones I have in there have survived for 2 months so I don't think my fish will worry them. But if I start to pay higher prices the fun would be gone with the stress of not losing anything!!!

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I know what you mean, i only brought my first SS shrimp recently from 2OFUS and GBANG for the same reasons. I started off with 10 CRS and got lucky with some females and got them to breed. Never to the point where i had any to sell. Unfortunately i moved house and someone looked after them for me in one of their tanks and nearly all of them. Now I have started again with the ones i brought from 2OFUS,GBANG andf my survivors :)

My main aim atm is to hopefully breed some nice looking shrimp and some decent numbers that i can use to fund my goal of having a set up for BB's and similar which is 3 years away :). my inspiration is the pic of Ace's shrimp tank with like 1000 CRS in it :). I think the benefit of working on a limited budget allows to reap more reward once you have established a colony and they are giving back to you in the sense you can sell your culls and buy some nicer shrimp.

I am on a limited budget to so know what its like, i am making my final shrimp purchase on Saturday from 2OFUS and then its up to my own devices with whats in my tank :).

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Yes that's it . It will be a nice achievement to get some nice shrimp from the ones we can afford. I just hope that as the culls and lower grades still come from parents with good genes I might be lucky and get some half decent ones. I have quite a few nice cherries now and one male that was born here is really nicely coloured better than some of the females. I am leaving all together in a 100 litre tank to breed for a few months then I will cull all the light ones and see how the others go. Some of the really little one are showing lots of colour already.

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