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Thought I'd update this with some of our newest wild bettas. Love these new guys a lot. Betta dennisyongi Betta rubra

I'm going to make some home-made shrimp food. The recipe is a modified version of Jayc's recipe: Chlorella, Spirulina, powdered Mulberry leaves, Bee Pollen and Astaxanthin bound by Agar Agar. My Astaxanthin is a long way off (group buy from USA) so I was thinking about Krill Oil. It's high in Astaxanthin and Omega-3 but is it shrimp safe? (will probably test in my cull tank) What do you all think?

I wonder if a shrimp safe emulsifier could bind the oil with the Agar (I'm guessing its the water in the agar that is repelling the oil) two options that spring to mind are Egg yolk and Soy lecithin. Time to do some experiments I think *dang no mad scientist emoticon* This will have to suffice:

I don't have the Mulberry Leaf Powder yet but am planing to buy off ebay. most sellers are in Korea. australherbs.com.au used to stock it but seems to have disappeared from their website. They have some other great stuff for shrimp food though, like: (All organic and in powdered form) Spirulina Alfalfa Barley Grass Brewers Yeast Broccoli Chlorella Dandelion Leaf Paw Paw Leaf Nettle Leaf And well priced too, for instance 250g of organic Spirulina powder for $15.70 Well worth a look.

I was able to get a better shot of the newly berried female. By the way, can anyone sex the shrimp in my previous post?