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Oh Waow! They are really gorgeous!!! Remember Ineke, my proposal of helping you in clearing your tanks. This is also for these shrimps , I would be glad to help

Very nice...... You have some generous friends!

Hi SKFers! I"ve been a member for a few months and and I'm thinking I'm finally comfortable enough to make a journal that will be documenting my journey with breeding Japanese Black/Red Bees. A little info about me - I've been a shrimper for 5 years now and been into aquaria for 7-8 years. It all started with the GF getting me some goldfish to fit her theme of asking me to Prom (i'm older by 2 years and it was her prom and I didn't go to the same school) and since then have been involved with aquaria related stuff. What started off as an attempt to keep the goldfish (those $1 for 10 goldfish) quickly turned into a betta hobby which lead to breeding with lead to live plants which lead to aquascaping which lead to where we are now... Shrimping.... Currently, I'm keeping only Caridina species but did start off with Neocaridinas but have recently decided to drop keeping neos to clear up space and narrow my focus. My shrimpy passion is a little "excess" to say the least. It has driven me to travel all over Asia to visit aquascaping and fishkeeping as it is bigger there but the food was also a good incentive to visit. Of the Caridinas that I keep includes: Crystal Red Shrimp in the form of PRL and Japanese Red Bees, Japanese Black Bees, Red Wine - Ruby Red Taiwan Bees, Panda Taiwan Bees, Blue Bolts, Pintos, and Orange Eyes Blue Tigers (OEBTs). It wasn't until my most recent trip to Japan and getting to know a close friend that I discovered Japanese Red/Black Bees. These are (to me) a higher and purer form of Pure Red/Black Lines that we see available today. Originating from Japan, these bees were the predecessors of what we see today as Pure Red Line. I'm very happy to have been able to travel to Japan and bring back these precious guys. Although it did cost an arm and a leg, I'm very happy that I got the chance to experience the culture, the food, and the people. A little insight on my plans regarding the breeding project. I'm planning to do rack style setups where as I can have 2 main rimless 25G cubes whereas I can breed the main colony of Japanese Black Bees (JBB) and Japanese Red Bees (JRB) and have subsequent 10g tanks underneath whereas I can cull and selectively breed for specific traits. Apart of being a shrimper I'm a growing macro photographer (thanks part to said friend and his patience with me) and so as my shrimping abilities grow, I also hope that my photography skills also developes in the same positive manner. Nuff said, please enjoy photos I've taken so far. Japanese BlackBees: Japanese RedBees: The colony of RedBees and BlackBees started off very small but is growing quite rapidly. I'm very happy that I've been thus far successful. I hope to grow out my population within a few months and be able to start my selectively breeding process very soon! Thank you for reading!

Just a couple of not so good pictures of my new TB boys and also a fancy Tibee- I have a few of this variation now with some a very nice blue and white instead of black. The boys have very sexy red legs woohoo !

Just glad they've gone to a great home. We all know Ineke will treat them like Kings!!

looking good mate!

Wow they are sexy! Good stuff Jamie

I feel a tad spoilt! Jamie was very generous.

Happy belated Birthday Ineke..... Glad to hear you had a great day!

Happy birday Good luck in your breding pogram

Be interesting on what your water parameters are . Ummm i'm not sure , i got the tank second hand but the substrate was already in the tank but never used . its meant to keep the ph around 6.5 When i got the shrimp from dave, the water in the bag had a tds of 250ppm

Disagree inverted. One thing I stand by is lfs get in amazing bettas. Aquabid/imported bettas normally are horrible for showing. All the crazy/wacky colours may look good to the eye, but by ibc standards are rather poor. First Vic Betta ibc show we won reserve best of show female, with a female we bought for $7 from a lfs. Main issue with shops is how some keep them doesn't make them appealing. Boronia aquarium are probably the best example of keeping bettas in great condition.

Very nice Ineke..... Beautiful betta and better(see how I did that) than 95% of the stock that you see in the lfs. I think you have to start a line somewhere it's almost impossible to get show winning quality without any flaws first up. Where you go from the starting point up to you.

Awesome stuff Ineke & well done Jamie!

Is it safe to assume you are using Salty Shrimp GH+ when you say you're using GH+? Most of the time, the minerals derived from the substrate and not use much the mineralizer itself. Most Mineralizer on the market only contains Calcium and Magnesium salts that together increase the general hardness of the RODI water. As such, the mineralizer itself has little to do with providing the complete needs of shrimps. More often than not, breeders will rely on their substrate to provide the trace nutrients for their shrimps but the only problem with this is the substrate is deplete of trace minerals very rapidly (usually within the first 5 months of the substrate's life). Most breeders will need to add supplemental trace nutrients to keep their shrimps happy and healthy. I'm using an entire lineup of Shrimpy Daddy Products. He is a sponsor here incase you were interested to checkout or ask him any questions.

Ok after procrastinating during the week and most of the weekend I spend the putting together a my tank cabinet and a set of shelves I got from ikea for my shrimp "area" lol. This was the area I was allocated for my computer and shrimp tank. This is the cabinet and shelves I out together to store organise all my shrimp stuff. Cabinet before And after This is what the shrimp area looks like now. Just refilling the original tank after it's move. I need a few containers to put my powders and what not in to keep things neat and tidy but happy with how it turned out. Also wanted to add a close up of each partition. Left - current plans is for my crs Middle - current plans for my gb's but they will replaced by blue bolts in the future. (Please feel free to recommend Any Perth breeders that have some for sale) Right - current plans is for my tibee males hoping to get some females and also a bunch of f7+ mischlings to experiment with. I have smashed my budget and I still need to get a heater and light lol. luckily the wife ain't complaining as she already got bought off lol. Hopefully I can stick to my shrimp purchasing budget a little better. I hope you enjoyed the up date. Next post will be the set up of the substrate and the scaping.

Show how tough red cherries are...... Half your face peeled off!

Hi all, I had a pretty busy year start and after that went for holiday, and I forgot about updating everyone. (^_^")y In the end, I decided on these shrimps: They are in the tank for 1.5 months (from 10mm size grow till breeding age now). ^^