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Hi guys,

I'm a relative beginner to shrimp/fish keeping, but I'm loving it. I currently keep CRS, red cherries, yellow cherries (separate to the reds of course), DAS, Darwin Red Nose, blue and white zebra (sold under that name, not sure what they really are).

I also have a couple of tanks of various fish.

My setups are not fancy at all (yet), but I am learning all the time :)

My other main hobby is photographing all those fish and shrimp! Hope to contribute and learn from this forum.

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Welcome to the forum Watfish!

Im very happy you could make it and im sure everyone else will be seeing those amazing macros you take which i hope you share with us on here :)

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Welcome to SKF Watfish,

sounds like a very good mix of shrimp you have already, will be great to see how the Blue & white zebra caridina go for you as not many people have had to much luck.

we all love a good photo on here to and look forward to seeing many cool pics.

hope you enjoy your stay and learn a lot from out great members and forum.

:encouragement:

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Welcome to SFK

please share some photos of your shrimp.

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Welcome mate. You will be another invaluable source of knowledge on this forum, and I'm sure found a lot of helpful information as well.

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Hi mate, welcome to SKF ENJOY!

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Thanks for the warm welcome guys :)

Hey nogi, remember how I was so impressed by your 4ft main tank? I've finally been given the approval to get a 4x2x2, but mine will be for fish, not shrimp :P I'll still have a tank for shrimp and another for my Betta.

Where's the forum for photos?? :)

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Thanks for the warm welcome guys :)

Hey nogi' date=' remember how I was so impressed by your 4ft main tank? I've finally been given the approval to get a 4x2x2, but mine will be for fish, not shrimp :P I'll still have a tank for shrimp and another for my Betta.

Where's the forum for photos?? :)[/quote']

Not sure you ave full access yet? Why not just post them up here. :)

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Lovely photos mate! Can you share your photo recipe for those?

If you use Chrome as your browser' date=' install the [b']EXIF Viewer plug-in. You will be able to right-click and show EXIF information which will contain part of the recipe for you. ;)

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If you use Chrome as your browser' date=' install the [b']EXIF Viewer plug-in. You will be able to right-click and show EXIF information which will contain part of the recipe for you. ;)

Thanks Nogi! I'll install it later. I was more thinking about location of flash (soft box or not) to the angle of the camera, etc.

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Wow I'm blown away by your zebra pics, would love to know how long you have had them, your conditions for keeping and if you have had breeding success. I think this is my next shrimp to delve into over the newer kk etc, very keen to see the local option expanded into the hobby!

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welcome to SKF by the way ;)

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