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G'day,

I have just joined this forum and thought I would introduce myself. My name is Adam, I am 20 years old and have been into the aquarium hobby for probably 5 or 6 years now. I am about to become an electrical apprentice in 2014 and currently work in pharmacy. Only about a year and a half ago I started to get into aquascapes (looking and researching....not really creating) and doing planted tanks. Along with this came a new world of shrimp. I am joining here to further my knowledge with shrimp and I am hoping that within the next year I will have a few breeding colonies of cherries with different colour variations. I currently have one 2 foot tank set up with red cherries, one 3 foot with chilids and one 5 foot which is about to receive those chilids and therefore giving me some more room to play with shrimp. I don't know what it is but probably like a lot of you I find unusual pets interesting.

Anyways just thought I would introduce myself and I am hoping to be an active member on this forum.

Kind regards

Adam

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Hi Adam welcome to SKF you have come to the right place to learn more about shrimp. There is heaps to see and learn here and lots of friendly like minded people willing to share their knowledge and journey with shrimp. The forum will open for you as you post so the more you post the more you see. We love pictures of tanks , shrimp and fish so post a few pictures and ask lots of questions and some one will be sure to answer them. Hope you enjoy our forum

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Welcome Adam!! They are very interesting pets and also very addictive, don't say you haven't been warned!!!

It would be great to see some pic of your setups.

Ask lots of questions as you go!!

Welcome and enjoy!

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Welcome Adam!

Nice to see another 20 year old on the forum :P

I'm sure once the addiction of shrimp hits hard you will notice your shrimp collection escalate at an alarming rate. It is quite addictive, and can get a little expensive :cower:

Ask lots of questions! And be sure to post up some pics of your tank :smiley_simmons:

Cheers

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Welcome to the forum, definitely the best place to be to learn about shrimp, ask as many questions as you like cause there's no dumb ones here! :victorious:As mentioned, we love pics here so whack some up when you get a chance. Hope you have as much fun here as we do! :smiley_simmons:

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welcome to the family you will find everything here so ask as many questions you want if you need a hand everyone will give you one :D

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