Leaderboard

Find A Word Competition!!! (Easy-ish!) Following on from the previous Find a Word Challenge, inspired by Marcus, we have included these in the 12 Days of Shrimpmas Challenge!! This is a relatively easy challenge compared to the last one. Find the words, send me a pm with your findings, post that a pm has been sent and I will announce the winner!! If you haven't found the designated words, I will let you know. Please familiarise yourself with the rules of this competition below. This will be open to all members, within Australia and all international members. Have Fun!!! Competition Rules: Entry is open to members with a post count of 20 or higher Admin/Moderators decision is final and non-negotiable Entries are to be sent to Newbreed via PM to check. Once PM sent, please post a comment in the competition thread stating this Entries posted directly to thread will be removed and treated as invalid Entries will be checked on a regular basis, based upon time of PM being received If entries are incorrect, a PM will be sent back advising this You can resubmit as many entries as required Until a correct entry has been received, an hourly update will be posted advising that a winner has not yet been found Once a correct entry has been received, it will be confirmed by Admin or a second Moderator prior to announcement A PM will then be sent to the winner, and the Competition thread will be updated to announce the winner Competition will begin 9:00am AEDT Wednesday 17/12/14 and will end once a winner is announced - depends on how quick you are!! The Find-a-Word Puzzle will be in PDF format Prize for the competition will be announced on the Day of competitions launch Words will be listed from left to right, and from top to bottom (as shown in image below) Find 15 Words in Total As the other mods are not familiar with the layout of puzzle, nor the answers, they can enter this challenge Example of how words are listed:

Several weeks ago my partner and I put in an order with Aquagreen for some DAS and DRNs. We also picked up some Blue Eyes for his tank that are gorgeous. Because my tank wasn't ready, my shrimp went into his 'fry' tank, which is actually a tank for Mr Shoggoth, the mystery snail. Shoggoth was getting harassed by the danios in the main tank so he got his own space which he seems pretty happy with. Today I went over and we pulled out the furniture in that tank and I transferred them into buckets for the trip home, which was thankfully very short. Everything I've read about DRNs being jumpers is true. Three DRN made desperate bids for freedom during transfer and had to be rescued. I hope that didn't traumatise them too much and they're ok, although one now seems to have a bubble stuck in his carapace. Aren't DRNs supercute? Even though they are the least shy, they seem to be the hardest to photograph, they do tend to move a lot. I can already see that the DAS are extremely under rated. They're gorgeous, variable in colour and pattern, and eat like demons. There was a diatom issue in my partner's main tank, and the DAS he put in there loved it. There was also a strange flat black algae, (definitely not BBA, maybe a variant of green spot algae?), growing on his anubias. It wouldn't rub or scrape off the leaf at all, yet the DAS have almost eliminated it. Here's some of the DAS, showing the variation in patterns in just a handful of them. Some nice black stripes along the sides of this one. Love the white spots all over this one. Terrible colour balance for this photo because it was sitting just under the lights, but it shows some nice black striping with white spots. Finally there was a surprise as well. One night spotted something in the tank and my first thought was 'Red Cherry', but it couldn't be because we don't have any cherries at all. Then I realised it must be a Chameleon, it scuttled out of sight before I could show my partner. Today when we pulled all the furniture out of the fry tank to net out the shrimp we discovered that there were two Chameleons in there, so they came home with me too. They were a dark brown today, but tonight I found one under the driftwood and it was looking red. These guys seem to be incredibly shy and hard to spot. Terrible photo, but it was the best I could do trying to aim a penlight and a camera at the same time. I'd like to give a shout out to Aquagreen. As I've read many times, Dave was great to deal with, simple and easy to order and everyone arrived happy and healthy, quickly and in great packaging. Actually many of the shrimp were berried, but dropped while still in my partner's tank. In fact I'm very tempted to put in another order to double my number of DRNs and DAS, and maybe grab a couple more Chameleons while I'm at it.

My apologies for not making the process clearer. Where we normally rate 3 of 5 stars etc, this was just to acknowledge your three favourites. Based upon that, the winner for this challenge is..... Jimmynich with his entry Berried MKK Thank you to all entrants, and to all whom voted!!! Congratulations to Jimmy for the awesome prize from our sponsors The Tech Den! They will be in contact shortly to arrange shipping, etc.

Having good flow is very important to growing buce, it keep algae from growing on the leaves and i personally believe the grow faster in a strong flow... If you want to grow allot of buce divide the plant often even if you make it look kinda ugly, it will grow back.

So today's been pretty exciting. I've been setting up and cycling my tank, and finally today my shrimp came home. I wanted to do a divided 2 foot tank with sump at the back and a Matten filter system. It took some fiddling but I got there in the end. I used dark grey transparent perspex sheets to divide the front of the tank in half, and then divide off the sump. Two large square holes approx 20cm x 20cm were cut into the sump divider, one for each side. I siliconed a fine mesh screen over these. It's Stainless Steel 60 mesh with a nominal aperture of .26mm. I wasn't sure how small the native larvae are, so I went for something very fine. There's a sheet of 45ppi Porex foam in front of these, forming a background for the front of the tank. Working out the airlift pipes for each side wasn't too difficult once I got a more powerful airpump, the one I had just didn't have enough power to run two airlifts at the same time. I'm using the Fluval Q2 airpump, which may even be overkill but it can certainly run both pipes without an issue. I used 20mm pipe, drilled a hole for the airline to thread through and popped in an airstone. An elbow at the top and I predrilled the holes for the pipes to run through the perspex divider from the sump. I wanted the outlet pipes to be shrimp-proof so I put some generic flyscreen over them so that the shrimp can't go wandering. I've heard a lot about how adventurous DRNs can be. Some generous application of mesh at the top of the dividers to make up the difference in height between the perspex and the lids, and it was ready to go. Meanwhile I'd had some driftwood sitting in tanks, one with fissidens and one with mini pellia, letting them get established a bit. The fissidens was actually done with DSM for a fortnight by my partner while I was out of town then filled with water. A couple of anubias nana tied on there too. The upshot being that by the time I got some substrate and other plants into the tank, I hoped the driftwood would be well established. The fissidens was well attached, but the pellia wasn't, I had to tie it down. Both became covered in algae within a day of moving to the tank, so I guess that was getting established too. Here it is: I brought home a sponge filter that had been in my partner's tank for a while (he lets me co-own that tank and add things to it as well), let it run through a cycle and finally it was ready for the shrimp.

I can't believe the amount of PRL available these day. Just because your crs doesn't product cbs/Sw/gb etc... Does not mean your crs is prl crs. LMAO. Low grade prl. WOW! What next?? LOW GRADE TWB? I

not SLu7 words in this one but there is a hoe..... lol :P

Thank you!

It's Tuesday again (at least on this side of the world) and time for a new post. I'm glad you're not bored so far, so lets continue! . This time as promised: antenna coloration. For me, a PRL shrimp is only complete with white colored antenna's. Without it, it looks like a normal shrimp. I cull out all shrimp with no or bad antenna coloration. So far just one exception of one piece with very very beautiful red and white, I keep that one and hope the offspring will have full white colored antenna's instead. When talking about the antenna's we are talking about a lot of parts. I'm not an biologist, but I've looked it up: The antenna starts with a thicker part and then the actual small antenna. A total of 6. But most people talking about antenna coloration are talking about the thick part. I've never seen the thin part also colored like Sulawesi shrimp have. This is very very rare among Cardina shrimp. Still I hope to breed it one day if possible. 1. This are a 4 small antenna attached to the upper tick antenna part. 2. This are the two long antenna's attached to the thick part below. 3. This is a part in the middle. I believe you should not call it an antenna, but with the naked eye it just seems to be a part of it. Sometimes the shrimp moves this parts sideways (to clean them?) and you can see them. Sulawesi shrimp, full colored white antenna's up till the end: Back to the PRL antenna. When you look close, almost without exception there is some red in it. Especially on the middle antenna part (nr. 3 in the illustration). When the antenna is red, it looks like it has no color with the naked eye. Because of the contrast I guess, so I always aim for a least full white of the upper tick part (nr. 1 in the illustration). This has the most effect when you see them in real life. Red colored antenna's: Looks nice hu? But only on a macro image, in real life this looks not very nice at all. This is an example of a piece with white colored upper part (nr. 1) but red or no color at the other parts: Or this one, with more red in it: Most of the time this will be enough to give the shrimp a good look. But when the other parts are also white it shines even more. Like this one that has almost completely white only, just a small touch of red. Again, with the naked eye, you can't see this small red spots: This is the same shrimp as used before in this topic: I'm sorry if the pictures a not top quality. I've had little time and to show the antenna's I have to use a lot of 'digital zoom' (crop) an this makes it even worse. But beside that I think this is a good example of antenna coloration. Next time I hope to show something about.... surprise . I will first contact some people with PRL/JRB to see if they got some images of the subject I have in mind.

Im sorry I have to disagree but there are such things as low grade PRL. Just because the parents are top grade PRL doesn't mean they'll have 100% top grade PRL bubs...So what do we call these PRL culls if not low grade PRL then? I have seen first hand in Vietnam my mate have super sexy PRL but only 10% of the offspring are high grade and kept for his projects, the rest are low-med grade PRL and are sold as such. Pinto Gene is anything that came from a PINTO x ...so what do we call them if not pinto gene? I mean anything that is X with a shadow...offspring are called Shadow gene even if they are normal looking panda etc. No?

Christmas tree updated, I'm sure people will prefer what's replaced the mug lol

I have to agree, the term "low grade"is being thrown about to boost prices way too much lately. I have to agree with Fishmosy, definitely buy off breeders you know & have proven quality, I also have to agree with something that Shrimpy Daddy said in another thread & that is if a breeder is saying they are "low grade" anything(especially PRL, PBL or any other high grade shrimp) then they probably aren't. I also have to laugh at everything being labeled as "pinto gene" basically just means it's been crossed with a tiger, lmao.

Loving this thread right now! Keep up the good work. Once JRB colors up within 2 weeks I'll try to assist by adding pictures.

bring it! ;) lol jk :) I need a new camera. I got wroughted by harvey norman. Come on people get involved lets make this the biggest photo comp so far! Get out your phones, cameras, imaginery cameras, ipads and tablets!