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hi everyone!

thanks for letting me join the forum.

i'v just been back to keeping aquariums a couple of months ago.

prior to moving to Australia, i used to keep cichlids, flowerhorns, and arowanas.

i just scored a small tank when i saw a new petshop open where we normally go for groceries. now have plants, guppies and tetras in it.

then saw a forum post about some shrimp for sale. got myself 10 initially (i could only find 8 lately) and find myself liking shrimps.

am getting another small tank for additional shrimps, if i could find some and before my current ones get decimated :)

hope to admire and learn more from your tank setups here.

cheers!

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thanks guys... yes, i need all the luck finding shrimps here :)

otherwise, i'll just keep on admiring and dreaming about your setups...

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Welcome to the forum, I have to warn you that shrimp are incredibly addictive & MTS(multi tank syndrome) usually follows soon after. Definitely the best place to be to learn about shrimp, ask as many questions as you like cause here's no dumb ones here. Hope you have as much fun here as we do! :smiley_simmons:

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Welcome mate, where did you move to australia from? It's a great forum and gives great advise

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