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The next wave of test shrimp have dropped in the rack!

Oh and my Ada soil has sprouted a plant...

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Great that you are at moving in stage!! ??

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  • 2 weeks later...

I've moved the blue bolts and tigers over now and they appear to be doing ok a few molts and no deaths. Now grow! Groowwwwwww my pretties!!!!!

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Love the setup......looks mint!

where did you source the push fittings for the standpipes?

You make me want to build a new rack 

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Love the setup......looks mint!

where did you source the push fittings for the standpipes?

You make me want to build a new rack 

my tank builder got them for me but you can find them else where I'll pm you! 

Man racks are great you should definitely get one :D 

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This is what I've been waiting for, first berried CRS must be 3 weeks now since I put them in so I guess they are happy! 

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Nice blue bolts Buck

:love: 

cheers mate I hope they breed true (TB) like the seller said they would:| 

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@buck that isn't too long to wait. I had to wait for at 10 weeks before it happened and only happened on the weekend. Mate I hope they all start berrying up now. Good luck.

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Thanks mate, I'm really happy it only took this long, the tanks are so full of biofilm and algae so I know the shrimplets will do well too! 

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Its amazing how some peoples shrimp take a break during winter times.

Must be the Barry White music I play all the time.

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No idea mate, I've dosed crap loads of bactor ae while I was cycling and still dose once a week, the tanks get some natural arvo sun so maybe that helps but the shrimp love it 

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So some changes to report! The ss mesh guards kept getting blocked up by the algae, this caused a flood that let some crs escape so ive been tinkering with ideas to fix it and so far this is working the best, its some sponge sut in to a strip and rolled up. So simple and easy to clean, just pull it out and replace. Clean and kep aside to repeat. I was literally cleaning the other strainers once a day. 

Ive got the chiller hooked up to this rack now just in time for springs first hot days. Im using a powerhead to run the water though it and returning to the sump near the main pump. The big rack is definitely more work for it.

Ive moved my snowballs over now and they seem happy, lots of saddles so hopefully soon lots of berried girls! 

Ive found 3 berried crs now! ones due to drop soon so that's exciting. The rest are growing slowly so as they start breeding ill be adding some pandas to the top left rack with the snowballs. Then when $ permits  ruby/ wine reds to the bottom right! 

The blue bolts i got ages ago are starting to show there colours (a couple their lack of colour) im debating culling the bad ones already but cant bring my self to do it untill im sure of there sex. 

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Ive started to try and line breed snowballs that have a silverish line down their backs, today i found the first berried girl in the program! Oh and a couple of pics of my favourite blue bolt! 

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Exciting times!

Reminds me that I should do a little update on my tanks.

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Beautiful setup and inhabitants!! 

Looking forward to a backstripe Snowball!! Awesome!!

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Some kind of better pics of the line im trying to breed in the snowball project. The image quality its self is crap but it gives you a better idea 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Any day now.... Ive seen a few shrimplets already from another girls drop so thats exciting 

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