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I was lucky enough to cruise around SW WA a few years ago looking at some of the things that interest me. Of course, aquatic life was one of those things and I got to see some fish that I'd been interested in for ages. The Salamanderfish (Lepidogalaxias salamandroides) was probably the most significant, and one of the dwarf Galaxias (Galaxiella nigrostriata) was another exciting one for me. I do love to find the eastern species of Galaxiella (pusilla) when I'm out and about back home in Victoria. I travelled from roughly Albany across to Dwellingup, not too far from the coast just south of Perth. Along the way I looked in every waterway where it was convenient to stop and found the south-western glass shrimp Palaemonetes australis virtually everywhere. They varied in colour to a certain extent but were always pale speckled and with transverse pale bars. They grow quite large compared to the shrimp we usually keep, about 5-6cm total length, and are really pretty attractive little guys. I heard stories of nice colour forms occurring closer to Perth, and I can only hope some of you Westies get out and collect from a few spots in the hope of finding some. Then you can send some to me too! We headed to Dwellingup for a mates wedding and spent a few days hanging around there, so I was able to check the river there most extensively. The Murray River, as it happens. This river was made up of large open pools interspersed with short rapid sections. We had the canoe in and were able to negotiate upstream through many of these rapids, occasionally having to drag the canoe over rocks to continue. The downstream return trip was invariably much more fun. Murray River at Dwellingup, WA: Palaemonetes australis from Dwellingup: I found some other nice western fish here, including Tandanus bostocki, Bostockia porosa, Edelia vittata and Galaxias occidentalis. Sorry no photos of these fish. For those who don"t know, Tandanus bostocki is a small version of our eastern Tandanus tandanus, and Bostockia porosa (Nightfish) is a dwarf Percichthyid, essentially a mini Murray Cod. The Edelia and Galaxias are the Western species of Pygmy Perch and Galaxias. However back towards Albany at the start of the trip we stayed at a farm Below the Porongorup range. They had a spring fed waterway which had been protected from the usual farm activities and was quite intact. There I found a lovely little Goby, probably Pseudogobius olorum or a related species. Unfortunately my pic of the waterway was too large to load here so perhaps I'll think to resize it later and try again. I do have pics of the origin of the spring water supply and of the Goby. Porongorup Ranges - where the water came from: Pseudogobius olorum? People near Adelaide can also find Pseudogobius olorum (or a similar species) close to home. It's widespread and may have been split up. Obviously, it's time for everyone to get out and about on a field trip to see what's just around the corner from home. We truly do live in the lucky country here in Australia.

Now that you are a Premium member, you should be able to see the SKF marketplace and the For Sale forum. Newbreed has some A/S grade juvie CRS for sale at a reasonable price that you might be interested in. It's certainly a lot cheaper than purchasing them in a store.

I've been meaning to start this thread for a while and I intend to keep it going for some time. A couple of us down here in Melbourne have known for a quite while about a coloured population of Paratya shrimps. A few had been collected but when the shrimp fever really hit me in 2009 I decided to collect a few and have a decent try with them. My big plans came to nothing, which of course is the same as most other's experience with this genus. Please note, these photos are 5 years old and I need to collect this form again before I can post any more. In the next couple of months that will happen, and my big plans will start over again. Red Paratya with typical specimens: close up crop: more specimens: berried female: In this population there are black shrimp, blue shrimp and red shrimp. Some blacks have a blue base colour and some have red. This is an interesting parallel, I think, with Neocaridina davidii. However, these Paratya change colour radically which is quite different from cherries I've seen at least.

Just found this awesome little surprise in my missus tank.

Ah, but is it still in there?????????

Oh no! You will not! :-D

Yep but be careful cause if something cool pops up & she may not give it back to you, lol. I will definitely be making that one disappear.

Sounds cool Jen. Glad this inspired you to build your own.

So this is that habitat in which they came from!

so what is the answer if say all the shrimp die and you want to start again. Do you have to decommission that tank ,throw away all your substrate or can you just clean the substrate and do a total water change clean filters etc recycle tank and start again. It is something I have never seen written anywhere so is an interesting point for any one who may have this problem