Darwin Red Nosed

[lilly58]

I love these little guys & the helicopter swimming is great to watch. i have mine in with Red Cherries, Darwin Algae eaters, CRS & Riffle shrimp & everyone gets on fine.

I have recently seen some very tiny ones so mine are breeding. Here's a pic of one of my berried girls & another just hanging in the moss.

[Baccus]

One of my red noses blending in to the log

PS Not sure what shrimp is the other one in the shot, it could be a young red nose, a DAS that jumped out of a neighbouring tank.

And out in the open

[jayc]

One of my red noses blending in to the log

PS Not sure what shrimp is the other one in the shot' date= it could be a young red nose, a DAS that jumped out of a neighbouring tank.

DRNs are so underrated. They are such nice looking shrimp with unique patterns and look. Quite nice for a "wild" shrimp.

Talk about well camouflaged, especially the one on the right.

Your photos have captured it very nicely in a very natural looking environment. Well done.

I always have a soft spot for tank scapes that try to mimick the natural environment of the tank's inhabitants.

I have an Amazonian biotope with Apistos, tetras and discus that looks similar, with leaf litter, dark stained water, driftwood and dark substrate.

[Squiggle]

Very cool pics Baccus, thanks for sharing. :encouragement:

[ineke]

The more I see of natives the more interesting I find them. Great photo Baccus

[Baccus]

The tank housing these guys is what most fish keepers would call the muckiest tank possible. Its dominated by a huge hollow log which takes up the length of the tank, it has some non-native plants mainly parrots feather and some java moss, almost everything else plant wise the snails eat to death. The substrate is mostly fine black sand and over that a rather gross amount of mulm. But the shrimp adore the mulm and I suspect that is why I am seeing so many native shrimplets surviving in this tank even with the hydra that I keep waging war on. The shrimp also have their various leaves off trees to munch on, and they spend a lot of time grazing on the log.

Thanks for the encouragement, I too like a natural looking tank, even if it means hell for me on actually spotting the shrimp let alone getting decent pics of them.