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northboy Shrimp Master

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Hi All

It has taken a while to get started, but I started yesterday by painting the area, now I have to lay out door tiles, put in tanks and stands, a system and on the Left hand side will be a plant growing area in a sort of Hydroponics system.

The start, it is 6mts long by 2 wide and will be covered in green house plastic and shade cloth, it will hold 15 x 60cm tanks and 12 x low 80cm tanks

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ineke Shrimp Guru

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See they breed 1 in the house 27 in the new fish room. Keep us updated Bob looks interesting:)

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BlueBolts Shrimp Guru

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Thanks for starting this thread .... Outdoor shrimp room ? Fascinating :applause: what's plan b for those super hot days ?

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Sounds like you're going to be busy for awhile with these new projects!! Thanks for sharing, can't wait to see it develop!!

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Hi Bob i am a newbie here, having been to Cairns a few times and knowing how hot and humid it can get, if these are going to be shrimp tanks how you going to keep them cool. Will be interested to see the finished project.

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northboy Shrimp Master

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It makes me think how lucky I am, when everyone thinks it is so hot here, in reality 33 is a heat wave, the norm is 32, so I will extend the solid roof line with shade cloth and hot house plastic for extra shade at this time of year. As for shrimp, I keep mainly Cherry types and natives and they all go to 30c with ease and that is about as hot as outside shaded water gets up here, cooler that Brisbane. YES!!

Most of the time there is a good breeze in the right direction for cooling and I will use fans when there is not a breeze and I am working on Crystal types that take a bit of heat again, I had a strain 5 years back but lost them in a move, that is what happens when you have so many aquatic critters to move. But not at the moment

Back to the plan, I will run LED lights over the tanks with plants in, powered by Solar panels and a battery bank off the panels to run the sump pump, 240 back up for the cloudy days.

Yes its hot here so don't move here LOL, that will keep the population down, If you look at the summer temps it is cooler here than most places down south, I can recall a week of 40s in Brisbane.

There is two more rooms to be built, one will be out of fridge panel inside half the 6x6 shed that is about to be built and the other will be a Lab built out of Blocks and air conditioned. So if I keep reading everyone posts with there nice Crystal types I will have some where to keep them. Stop posting BB

A pile of tanks from the shed I just demolished to make way for the new one and there is another pile at the side of the house and more in the spare room and yes I know shut up

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Can't wait to see your outdoor shrimp room develop, Bob. You are very lucky to live in such a warm climate.

If I tried that here I would get frozen shrimp and fish in Winter. :(

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Good stuff! About time you gave me an opportunity to tell you to pull your finger out and get on with it! :smiley_simmons:

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sounds great Bob :) hows you start breeding cardinal tetra hahaha. although Hydroponics system sounds awesome too

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Cardinals are not space efficient and there is to many more important one for me to play with at the moment.

Bob

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You are right Bob, the temp is not so bad, it's that bloody humidity that kills yah. Bob do you know if you can still find the Cairns Psuedomugil Gertrudae within your local area. The one with smaller fins and larger spots and almost a mauve coloured grey to the body. Used to be able to collect them out towards the airport before all the new development. I think you can still get them down towards Innisfail ( mission beach) but not entirely positive about that.

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northboy Shrimp Master

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There is a White fin form from the Eubenangee swamp, that is the Cairns side of Innisfail and I have some out back to. Very nice

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Hi Bob, I had some of the cairns ones back in about 1982 just a beautiful little fish. If you are breeding the ones you have, i would be interested in purchasing some if you are prepared to sell. You can PM me if you wish with any further information about what you decide.

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I was also given a Redfin form from the Weipa area the other week by someone that use to work at pet country and moved up here, I am sure you can work that one out if you have hung around ANGFA for any time, first name Dean.

Yes there is always a few kicking around.

Bob

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