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As most of you know I have been away for 7 weeks and had to leave my shrimp to weekly visits from my daughter-inlaw. Came home to find some really good surprises and some also not so good poor quality surprises in my Rili tank. I think some culls from another tank may have been accidently transferred either by net or moss but I don't like what I'm seeing so I will get my older pure girls and a few nice boys and start from scratch -don't want to mix them up but it's a pity because I was just getting some nice colour and pattern happening.

My Crystal tank is alive with babies every where which is a great thing to come home to.

My favourite BlueBolt TBM is finally berried and she herself is showing great colour- I'm very impressed-I don't know who she is berried to but thats OK I'm happy with my mongrels. 

The Tibee population has exploded but I need to get a bit of colour into them as most are Tibee to Tibee so will sort out some TB mates if I have enough otherwise TBM will have to do.

My Blue Velvets have some nice colour coming up and my Blacks have also done well with lots of deep black youngsters in there.

I'm a bit dissapointed with my Yellows -they have gone very pale so will do some water testing tomorrow and do some slow water changes for them as they have all only had pure RO top ups for the last 7 weeks.

The only tank to still not have started breeding is my CBS tank. I know there are males and females but it seems to be a case of the CRS again -no breeding for months and months and months!

I have only gone around and tested the TDS of all the tanks and they are as low as 150 and as high as 190. I will give them all a good water change but will make the TDS of the new water match their current water and then gradually bring it down or raise it up depending on which species they are. Typical that the ones I want lower are the ones that are higher and vice versa but never mind it means I can have a little play with my tanks- I hear you Squiggs- not too much just a bit of fresh water !!!!!

It's also time to do some major culling and reassessing to see which direction the various species should go.

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Great to hear your shrimps have generally done well while you were away.

Those yellows will probably come back to full colour after some TLC.

You're not culling any red cherries by any chance are you?

I'm after some.

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Hi JayC no I gave away all my lovely Reds last year and now I want some too!

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Welcome home! Glad there was no shocks awaiting you!

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Welcome home :-) ....I'm sure al your shrimso are celebrating your return. I've found the same with the red Rillis. Gotta keep culling them on each generation.....I've been selective breeding them for F12+, and still getting 30-40% culls....

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Welcome home, Ineke!

Great to hear that your shrimpies have been very busy in your absence.

 

Good to have you back! :happy:

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Thanks everyone. Had a lovely night of shrimp staring last night- it might have been good to have a break from them because I have been enchanted all over again. Will get down to some heavy culling over the next week or so and see what direction that leads me to.

I would love to keep some berried girls in my satellite breeding box but I feel sorry for them guess its time to toughen up. My Blue Shadow Panda is a definite male and now I know one of my BB's is female I should put them together but they all seem so quiet when they are in the box :(

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Welcome home :-) ....I'm sure al your shrimso are celebrating your return. I've found the same with the red Rillis. Gotta keep culling them on each generation.....I've been selective breeding them for F12+, and still getting 30-40% culls....

Hi BB I was culling heavily but when I caught out all my culls from my community tank I stupidly put some nice ones in with my breeding stock . Unfortunately they must not have been pure and now I'm paying the consequences but that's ok I will get back to a few of the best and keep plugging away. I was going to stop breeding them but now they are a challenge again I am looking forward to improving them. Just a shame I had culled so heavily before I went because I let some nice ones go.

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Very exciting to have many more shrimps to work with. Bummer about the paling though..

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Welcome back Ineke, glad you made it home in one piece after your other little adventures and run in's. The shrimp will bring you back to reality, sure hope you find some really interesting babies when they grow a bit more and start to show their true colour patterns. Anyway good to know you and Alan made it home safe and well.

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Thanks for the welcome home.

I can't wait to have a proper look at them all when I finally find the time to get stuck in. I'm just really happy that there were no losses that I can see.

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