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Got a couple of good shots of some of my cherries. My breeder box suction cap gave way and the yellows escaped back into the tank. Will try get a photo of my greens tomorrow, one of them is berried.

Awesome stuff dude, gotta love shrimplets! Definitely on your way now, congrats!

One of the most useful things I learned about lobbying is that all politicians are itching for an excuse to fight with the other party and make them look bad. It's just a matter of info-bombing enough of them to make sure a few decide to use it as their excuse and the process can get stalled or scrapped if it becomes too expensive in terms of bad publicity.

Ok Buck, just a little peek

Unfortunately Stainless isn't always stainless. There are different grades and all are prone to rust eventually. I'm unsure what grade yours would be but by the look, they could be as low as 308. 316 is generally pretty good in freshwater but the low pH we run in shrimp tanks probably makes them more prone to rust. My suggestion is to go for a plastic alternative, even if that means some DIY to glue some fine mesh into a plastic shroud.

For those with larger tanks, SAE or Siamese Algae Eaters are effective removers of BBA when young, less so as adults. I regularly trade larger SAE out of my six foot planted tank for small SAE and they work really well at stopping the BBA from appearing. I have removed the SAE once and it wasn't long until I noticed little bits of BBA appearing on some plants. Never been without an SAE since. Note SAE get large (>10cm) and there are several fish that look similar but don't eat BBA. Make sure you get the right one. However for a substantial outbreak that you need to get on top of quickly in order to prevent it spreading, I'd be reaching for the peroxide.