Finally sorted my Crytals

[ineke]

After having to put all my crystals, TB , Mischling and TBM/TBMM into my community tank in January when we went away during the heatwave here in Adelaide I have got them all sorted out again and into their own tanks.

I now have my TB's, Mischlings and offspring in 1 tank, finally got my CBS into their own tank including Squiggs so called "culls" and a selection of nice young CRS in their own tank. I still have quite a few CRS in the Community tank but now there are no other colours or types to breed with in there.

Now I can start some selective breeding and see if I can improve my CRS and CBS. I have put my Goldens and Whites in the TB tank as they are Mischlings anyway. I might actually get some where now.

I know that a lot of my Crystals have come from breeders who kept all the colours together - except Squiggs CBS- so there is a lot of work to do once they start breeding but I look forward to that.

The hardest part is I bought some Mischlings from Ninja some time ago -they were CBS, Goldens and Whites but the quality of her shrimp is so good now it is hard to pick out the CBS Mischlings from the CBS so no doubt I will get the occasional little surprise if I have made any mistakes in picking them out.

I now have all my colours and types including my Cherries in separate tanks at last , the only double up will be the Tibees who will need to be in with something else. I still have my community tank for all the culls and still have empty tanks stashed away just incase I need them. Ahh life is good!:happydance::happydance:

I do have a slight shrimp hoarding obsession though.

[newbreed]

Must be great to know where everyone is now!

Great work Ineke!!

[ineke]

Yes and I think it's time i did some serious breeding with the Crystals instead of just having them to look at! At least they have started breeding again now - there was a drought on with the Crystals!