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This is a chart to show how shrimp from the Caridina group are identified. As I have banged on about for ever, it is not colour used for the ID of shrimp with the exception on the Crystal and Cherry types that we/ Humans have changed them from there wild forms to improve the colour, there colour is the defining way to ID them and not body features, where as body features are used to ID all wild types of shrimp. Colour in wild types can vary so greatly, both with in areas and populations, water conditions can have a huge effect of the colour of shrimp populations in the wild, along with many other factors. There is more information to be placed with this chart, it is to give every one a insight into the ID of shrimp and our native shrimp foremost as colour is always used to try to ID them and it don't work because of the ability of natives to vary colour. Bob

This new forum looks good. But will take some time to get used to. Loving the extra capabilities of the editor though. new emoticons TABLES !!! bullet points. This version of the editor is sooo much better. Time to go back to my old posts and spruce them up a bit.

​Thanks Disciple :D. Hopefully I will have time this weekend to take some pics.

And not look suspect or like a drug dealer LOL I got to know the guys at the local chemical supply whare house, that makes it easier. Bob

Site will be unavailable in a few hours time, get your shrimp fix in till then

I love Brussel sprouts ! :)

If you're prepared to eat it yourself then it can't hurt to try, but I think normal Kale will be nutritionally superior anyway.

If your zebs are ignoring food, be careful not to leave it there or add more. From my last attempt and my current attempt so far, I dont think you should feed zebs everyday. They seem to do really well on small amounts of food. Less food also allows you greater control over water parameters. Remembering too that leaves act the same way as pellets - they add nutrients to the tank. Didn't make it to black zeb creek because the weather wasn't on our side. I'll be putting pics and vids up soon. Thanks for the tip about the Malanda. Mine are currently in temporary housing until their tank is set up properly. Have you got pics yet?

Congrats man. Cant wait to see the pictures.

They certainly are an odd shrimp. Mine spend a lot of time grazing on the sponge filter. A small number are seen out grazing on leaves, but its very low impact grazing - not like DAS or C. typus that will pick a mulberry leaf and smash it. They seem to hit old IAL more than any other I throw in there but the consumption is evident by the slow loss of leaf tissue, not because I see the shrimp in the motions of eating it much... Most of the action seems to happens in the middle of the night (sneaking up on them with a torch reveals more out and about). Any prepared foods I've added have been largely ignored and had to be removed when they got nasty - so far tried NLS H2O stable wafer, Hikari mini wafers, AoA home brand wafers, Axolotl pellets (higher protein), Hikari crab cuisine, even a few pellets of barramundi food. I have unlimited leaves pre-soaked and loaded with biofilm in my pond so that + mulberry + IAL + the odd blanched nettle is hopefully enough. My rain water is very clean at the moment (EC 40 µS/cm ~ TDS=20ppm) and with just a thin layer of inert sand and a few small granite stones the tank was sitting at ~60µS/cm. I've recently added some DIY booster to bring it up to EC ~100+µS/cm to see if this changes their appetite.

I went away for the holiday weekend and was hoping to find shrimplets when I returned since it has been 28 days since I first saw a berried female. The males were swimming around the tank for hours last Thursday so I also hoped to find a 3rd berried female. I checked the tank last night as soon as I got home. The first shrimp I saw was the first female berried in the tank. She was still carrying eggs. I watched her for a little while and noticed the eggs were dark. They had been dark at first and slowly got lighter in color. They were a light tan the last time I saw them. The other berried female's eggs have done the same. Since I couldn't find another berried female, I started wondering if the first batch of eggs hatched or were dropped and she was already berried again. After scanning the tank for awhile I found a shrimplet in some of the moss . I was able to spot 4 at one time. I have to believe that my female berried almost immediately after the eggs hatched. Is this common?

if human experience is anything to go by, im sure the shrimplets won't even touch it if it has brussel sprouts in it!

Just a reminder that the site will be offline tomorrow night for a server move. I might take advantage of the outage and upgrade at the same time.