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This morning I was watering trees in my back yard, as I was watering the Longan what I thought was a grass hopper jumped into the pool around the tree, I have small banks around my trees to hold the water and that allows it to soak in, any way this grass hopper?? stayed in the water?? so when the water soaked in I picked up said grass hopper, NOT it was a 3cm Riffle shrimp, what the F. For the last 2 days I have had 30 Riffle shrimp in a bucker with a loose lid getting ready to ship= no food. The bucket is 30 meters from the trees, it is a 20lt bucket that is 1/3 full, when I looked at the bucket after finding the Riffle, there is about 10 missing, this means they have climbed the bucket, I already knew they could do this, but they got out under the lid? pushed it up? and this one walked through the grass in the direction of the Mulgrave river, the river is about 150mts from my house. What I want to find out is how long can they stay out of water and how far can they travel with there gills full of water like a lot of land based crabs and mud skippers do?? If they lend them selves to being dry but moist, shipping gets a lot easier. I know they climb a local water fall that is 90mts straight drop, this fall is right beside the Barron falls and connects to Streets creek near Kuranda. Wow, that opens a whole new can of worms, now to get one of the local Scientists= Boffins interested. Now I wonder, where are the others and will they make it to the river, they do how ever have to cross two roads and a rail way line to make the first part of the river. DAM I have to go to work, I will add this arvo. Shrimp are tough Bob

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This is where breeding vts to begin with is always a great tip. Spawning is much harder than people think, and when it's expensive fish it makes it very easy to loose hope and throw the towel in before you even get started. My first spawn was vts and I still reckon were amazing looking fry. I may put one of our spawn logs on here to spread how we spawn

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I actually have been buying 20kg bags of 2mm "Midnight" gravel recently for use in tanks that I use 100% rainwater (pH 5.8-6.0, EC 70 µS/cm). Some tanks I have are "drip-through" so the added hardness is perfect. Initially I found the midnight adding to the TDS over a period of a week and the tanks maintained pH ~6.8-7.0 with EC ~200 µS/cm (perfect for me), but now after a few months of rainwater changes the effect is far less and I have to add hardness booster to keep the TDS up (I add a DIY Mg, Ca, K mix). Plants, in particular Aponogetons and Barclayas have gone nuts in it. My only problem is every time I go to buy a bag I score the noob employee at the LFS who tries to talk me out of it.

@inverted - I love that idea. Riffles are certainly bloody fast swimmers in the forwards direction. So are C. typus. Most other shrimp need to rely on the tail flick for a quick escape. Chasing them around a tank with a net sure brings out the expletives!

Thats just a known fact lol jk