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Well, I was having a quick look through the zebra tank last night just to make sure everything was in order. I was just looking at a nice, heavily saddled female and thinking it can't be long to berries now, when I saw this: Needless to say, I was pretty happy. This is the first female that has become berried in my care. Unlike Fishmosy and Grubs, who have gotten their shrimp used to eating commercial foods and leaves, I have been going powder as it just forms into the biofilm that they're eating anyway. It may be coincidental but I've been working on my nutrition project again the last few weeks and have almost finished formulating my new shrimp food. My shrimp have been getting fed the recipe as it develops and are all doing good things despite the cold.

its time to enjoy the Original red cherry shrimp Fire.....red.....culls...... What i classify as high grade sakua. Yeah they are great but this is the thing. Fire reds require a lot of control and very selective line breeding. 1. If they were born from culls. They go to the cull tank. 2. If they are not full colours. They go to the cull tank 3. If i have no idea where they came from in terms of lineage of i wasnt in control from say....a crap mom. Even if she bred with a good male. They go to the cull tank Doesnt mean i dont use them for breeding. I have a cull line breeding tank too. As a plan c just in case! Will post more cool stories and photos over the weekend.

This shrimp belongs to the very ancient Family of Syncaridae and while this genus occurs in only Tassie there are other species that occur in other states of eastern Aust. Most are quite tiny and blind, occuring in the hyporheos (interstitial spaces of the sediment) and in groundwater.

That's true but not the whole story :). The male they looked at was quite large (40mm TL) and was already in the process of becoming a female. The main difference between males and females are in the endopods of the first and second pleopods. Males have an appendix masculina. Compare figs of the female holotype and male. This applies to Caridinas as well. Another less sure way to separate mature males and females is to look at the side of the abdominal segments espec. 2nd segment. In females they are deeper to accommodate the eggs. In Males they are less deep hence their slender appearance. This indicates that the specimen someone asked about the sex in another thread is a female.

OK, so here is an update on the tank, I've spent the last week in bed on pain relief and the before that in hospital getting surgery so tank care has been at an all time low... just look at the pic to see, ha. All shrimp are going well, plenty of berried RCS, couple berried YCS, CRS are hiding from me, Chameleons are going well and DAS are cruising around. All plants are going well, overgrown to the max, as you can see, Frog Bit has gone mental, stopping light from coming in, once I'm up and about I'll get into the tank but until then, it'll continue to grow wild, ha.

Not a very sophisticated tank - just 3 granite pebbles on a thin layer of inert sand. Eucalypt leaves and sticks (aged in the bottom of a pond) with some Indian Almond and Mulberry added for variety. ~ 30% rainwater changes 1-2x per week (water at room temperature from supply in fishroom). Lighting is strong because the tank is sharing the light with some algae cultures = green rocks and side walls. Tank is small 45cm tank (~20 litres) oriented end-on. Just waiting to move some fish around and will upgrade them to a 40l tank. Room temp is ~23C GH<1 KH<1. The light is over the front part of the tank. most of the zebras hang out more on the filter sponges or under leaves during the day but always a few visible. Seems to be more action at night. I've noticed lots of activity when adding fresh rainwater - they really seem to like the current and fresh water. This is perhaps not surprising given they are found in flowing streams. There are a few juveniles that arrived as eggs on berried females - but no breeding evident in this tank yet.

Had a search on here, no mentioned previously, so I thought I'd post this as it may interest some. Has anyone heard of these before? http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/indeX.aspX?base=1114 They look interesting, I'm aware they're under the threatened species act but I feel a breeding program between hobbyist's could only mean good things for the species? pygmy_mt_shrimp.pdf

EDIT - just noticed this is a super old post LOL! Hey Dean, i use to breed tomato clown, it was a good 7 to 8 years ago so my memory is going lol.. i forgot how many days it was but you could normally tell by looking at the eggs, and they would hatch i think within 1 hour after lights off may i ask what your feeding them? im guessing rotifers ? maybe i can help you out abit

That does not sound normal to me.

Love your work dude!

Quality as usual mate

you are out of control gbang lol

It's shocking when it takes over, I've been scooping it out and put it in the fish tank outside. Yeah needs a fair trim doesn't it, you know things are bad when the light won't light up the tank no more, ha. Have to look closely that's for sure, but they are in there, haha, just! Op went well, still sore and slowly getting around.

Hi everyone, I plan on setting up my first shrimp tank, it's a 2ft planted 60L, I want to have Blue cherries hopefully and looking to get cbs or crs at some stage later down the track.shrim It has a double tube t5ho light on top will that be too much for the shrimp? Should I be using driftwood? Do I need to buy a special aquasoil? The tank is currently full of endler fry at the moment, also are my adult endlers going to eat any shrimp? If so I can move them to another tank easily And if anyone has any other tips or anything that's all the questions I can think of right now

Thanks, mate. I’ve been a little too involved in gaming (MH4U for any hunters out there, hit me up) so my tanks and shrimping has lagged and been a little neglected. JRB and JBB are happily breeding and the colony is growing but my lack of time is showing with the absence of updates. I did spend some time a few weeks back and got some nice photos. I’ll post and share with SFK sometime thing weekend. Overall, JRB and JBB have been doing extremely well even with this scorching California heat. Luckily I bought a fan last summer. It’s been working overtime cooling my Japanese Bee tanks, probably would have a lot of bad time without it. Anywhoses, hit me up on MH if you hunt, stay tuned for more shrimpy updates!