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So around 8 months ago on my bedside table I had a 25L nano tank with a betta in it. The betta died after a long loving life :(

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so I decided I was going to make it into a shrimp tank, my first ever shrimp! After some tinkering I bought some goldvine and some awesome galaxy rasboras from fishchick aquatics

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and added some javamoss and later on some flame moss. And added my RCS. After now having the shrimp in for 6/7 months or so they are thriving, always new babies around!

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newbreed Shrimp Guru

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Brilliant intro to shrimp keeping!! It's always fun finding new shrimplets!!

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It really is, the first time I saw shrimplets I was so excited!

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Very cool! i have a tank just like yours here at work :) it was the first tank i kept shrimp in too!

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Oh that's awesome Wraithie! I've always liked the shape of these tanks! My shrimp love this tank!

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b00f Shrimp Keeper

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WOW!

Shrimplets are amazing.

My girlfriend spent honestly a whole day just counting them all..

Telling me how they are all different patterns and stuff.

She kept thinking the empty shells were dead shrimp, soon after explaining everything, I'd get a text every single time she found babies or a moulting.

God some nice Red cherries there, so vibrant.

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Thanks b00f! Yeah I was very lucky to get some vibrant females from LFS :D

Haha my gf enjoys looking at all the shrimplets too ;)

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Thanks b00f! Yeah I was very lucky to get some vibrant females from LFS :D

Haha my gf enjoys looking at all the shrimplets too ;)

Wait until a rouge Shrimp ends up outside the tank..

The world basically ends :P

I need to secretly cull some and try and get some better genes, but I cant be certain if I put my fingers in her tank, I will still have them afterwards...

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I would HATE to know what would happen when I eventually have to cull! She hates seeing barra eat gold fish and crocodiles eat zebras.... Let alone her fiancé culling shrimp.

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Culling doesnt have to mean killing, set up a pond outside and put them in that.

Yep :) relatively close, theres a few of us around SE QLD

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Culling doesnt have to mean killing' date=' set up a pond outside and put them in that.

Yep :) relatively close, theres a few of us around SE QLD

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Yeah true, my brother has a pond, he may get some shrimp :p

Oh that's great know there's more around here! Not many people I talk to at work/LFS have any idea about shrimp keeping

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Indeed i have found the only way to get different types of shrimp (without them being insanely expensive) is via forums and talking to people, and this is the best one for it :)

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Welcome to the forum, great start you have there, careful of MTS(multi tanks syndrome) it starts with a cull tank & before you know it you've got ten tanks, lol. Great to see the SEQ'ers are starting to come out in force. Hope you have as much fun here as we do! :victorious:

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