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see attached for quick guide how not to transport your shrimp folks ;-)

no casualties that I have found yet!! I moved my cull tank first as a testrun yesterday before moving the others

I wish I could have taken a video of the "sloshing" while driving hehe.. :-)

keep on shrimpin' ..

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my daughter's expression sums up the whole experience well I think :-)

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may as well share.. their new very own home! - equipped with the best junior primary schooltables money can buy.

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20L buckets with lids are a much better option if you want to keep your car dry, and if your really serious, battery operatored aerators. Hindsights 20/20 hey?

Looks like you have got plenty of nice tanks and equipment.

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Hand net, or drain the tank to a low enough level that you can tip the remaining water into the buckets from the tank.

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Great new homes waiting for them!!

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thanks for encouragement and also thanks for the tip from fishmosy. Im going to have to move again in 1 or 2 years so ill plan better then! I just didnt want to spend the time to catch them by hand esp. the shrimplets and I didnt trust myself to tip the tanks so I used this method instead. it was nervewracking but there was no spillage and no casualties from the move still - fingers crossed!! my only worry is if I had to break suddenly it would not be good!

all the aquariums I use are second hand btw and also so are most of my canisters and all my lighting etc.

these windows are north facing and this will be a learning experience managing the use of sunlight and artificial light to best effect for plant/moss growth. the sunlight doesn't allow for good viewing of the shrimps sadly :-(

also it will be tricky and costly managing temperatures in summer due to the fact I dont use a rack setup and could never afford chillers for all the tanks but it is only a very small skinny room to air-condition.

id like to invest in a much newer and nicer looking aquarium setup for my lounge room one day if all goes well :-)

so far the hobby for me has been a lot of fun and also a learning experience/stepping stone towards my longterm of goal of doing aquaponics -

im hoping to run a system using marron ! wonder if anyone here has grown or even bred marron before and what was their experience like??? I learnt a little about it in tafe but I couldn't complete the course due to family reasons.

id really love to get any feedback / tips / solutions about how to manage the sunlight and also how to deal with the temperature problem I will face come next spring/summer!

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I've bred yabbies before. Highly cannabalistic as they grow, and intolerant of each other as adults.

One food i found that they really like is raw carrot.

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what methods did u use to entertain and mollify them?

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