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Hasn't been a lot to update with this one. I lost 4 shrimp during the heatwave but I have installed a cooling fan that seems to be doing the trick. Also the Shrimp just haven't been interested in breeding until now!

first eggs spotted this morning, not a big lot but still pretty exciting! Also are they normally green? Most photos I see they are yellow?

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hopefully this is a sign that the rest of them will start breeding now!

is the small amount of eggs just because it's her first time?

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Congrats on your first berried shrimp!

With the recent super hot weather in Perth I would not be surprised that the shrimp would drop eggs. I have also found once one gets berried a few follow haha so keep an eye out on males doing the mating "dance".

Any full tank pics?

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Tank is looking a little bit ordinary thanks to the heat it went through, a lot of the HC  at the front uprooted and is only just starting to grow back, but here's a shot of it today.

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just saw my berried girl and she has dropped all but two eggs, I assume she will drop those too eventually? Not sure why as the tank temp has been staying steady at 26 since I set up the fan running on a temp sensor.

hopefully it's just because it's her first time and she carries them all next time.

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Another of my girls is berried!

fingers crossed these ones become the first shrimplets in the tank!

how long do they generally carry the eggs for?

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You are looking at about 4 weeks. It could be faster due to the warmer weather.

I have to say your rili have a nice pattern. 

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Cheers, there is a mix of good and bad in there, she is one of the better ones so I am glad she is berried.

she is still holding the full bunch of eggs today so fingers crossed. I'm looking forward to beginning the journey of breeding up a high grade colony of rilis.

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Love seeing green eggs on Rillis.

What's your TDS reading with all those rocks in the tank?

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Probably pretty high. I don't check TDS as I don't have a meter.

the tank is firstly a planted tank and is fertilised with my own mix of nitrate, phosphate and potassium, so that alone would keep the TDS higher than ideal in a tank that's main purpose is breeding shrimp.

It's why I went for Rilis and not a more delicate shrimp. Also these have come from a tank that was high CO2 and EI fertilised (very high levels of nitrate) so they would be somewhat adapted to it over the many generations of breeding in that tank. I don't keep my levels even close to as high as he does but it would be rare for me to let the nitrate levels get below 5 ppm

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