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Very cool, they look like an awesome addition to the family, thanks for sharing :victorious:

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Very cool' date=' they look like an awesome addition to the family, thanks for sharing :victorious:[/quote']

Thanks their a start .... im in the process of moving poorer grade males into my cherry tank so I can breed the poor quality females with the quality males only. I have that no entry original ss girl, so hoping that I can refine them and then be ruthless culling the next batch of babies ... hope that makes sense om a total noob to selective breeding

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I thought it was about time for me to do a update of the rack and shrimpies within !

Tank 1 still not divided :sadface: housing yellows and sunkists

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Plants have grown in nicely

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Tank 2 ! Blue velvet and Choc ... again no dividers yet !

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Mama choc always in the food dish

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Can never seem to get a clear pic of the bv

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My other 2 choc mamas hangin on the filter sponge :)

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The baby nursery .. u can see a pale one what looks like a bv and orange ines but way darker than the normal cherry .... im starting to wonder if one of my chocs was berried when i got her and now the ornge ones are her bubs and the bv looking ones are mr shrimps shrmpy babies..... will see time will tell :)

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Tank 3 chrystal blacks only housing 3 high grades :-)

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Their the shyest of the lot always in hiding grrrr

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Tank 4!

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My only berried girl ...it seems as though she has been berried forever grrrrr

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Feeding time at the crs farm

And here are some individual mug shots of some of the inhabitants

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One of my goldens ...I have just firked out some cash for 5 snow ehites to put in this tank to tey and pretty up the white in the crs & goldens

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One of my uglier gals

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Well I hope you enjoyed looking as muvh as I enjoyed sharing :)

Now I hope they breed :)

Soon...

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Nice pics blackcat, very cool shrimp. :encouragement: Just a thought, it would be better to put one of each colour cherry in each tank & same with the crystal/GB shrimp, then you wouldn't have any worries with cross breeding, rather than putting them in together & not knowing if they've crossed or not. :victorious:

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Hm tank sharing chrystals with crs n cbs never thought of sherry with crystals... the cherry tanks despite all efforts remain very high ph 7.4-7.6 and the crs and cbs tank is 6.4...

I am getting dividera in there and in the mean time I will drop the bubs into one of my red cherry tanks and let em change the genetics in there for some fun.... :thumbup:

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Most of us due to lack of tank space seem to double up ,just remember the cherries can withstand ph changes better than the Crystals so best put Cherries in the Crystal tank rather than Crystals in high PH .

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Lots of people have sucess breeding cherries in ph 6.4. I would rather do that instead of mix cherries due to lack of tanks.

But you couldn't keep crystals in cherries tank with ph 7.4

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Looking very cool, can't wait to see the little ones when they get some more size & colour :victorious:

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Did u c the ones that look charcoal Grey? When they sit on the gravel they blend. post-3786-139909863356_thumb.jpg

Enlarged can u see them

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Tonight its Rili nighta5u9azev.jpg

Due tonight most likely :-)

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More berries

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Family picnic

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All saddled :-)

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Ahhhh lovey rilis realy getting a group going :-D

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Very nice rilli's , thanks for sharing the pics.

Yeah, the previous pic does look like a wild throw back, best to observe them over the next few weeks to see how they develop.

:applause:

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