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Looking good Ben, they have nice crisp colour. Oh and I love your new avatar!

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Got some shrimp crack to try out. First impressions are that the shrimp really liked it.

A few seconds after it went in they were lining up.

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The rest soon joined in.

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Best of all, a newly berried female showed up to feed.

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I'd noticed two deaths over three days in the week prior and when I tested TDS, it was 270ppm. Been a bit too lax on water changes and using the TDS meter. Did some large water changes to bring it down to 230ppm and noticed a couple of moults in the last two days. So really nice surprise to see the berried female.

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It's great when they all gather for a meal! When my girls are berried they seem to become bossy at meal time chasing others away!

Your shrimp are looking great, hopefully more berried ladies soon!!

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Awesome pics dude, just wait till they start fighting over it & trying to pick it up & run away with it, too funny! :lol:

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Update.

Well the CBS tank is now decidely CRS.

Oh well, at least my average grade is getting better. Think I'm about an A average now, up from B. Only two generations.

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