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Shrimp club Victoria would like to welcome all to attend our next meeting on the 2ND August at 12:30pm. Address is 29 grant street, Clifton Hill. As always we will have a fun filled day, lots of discussion. We will have a group talk on the importance of selective breeding, and selecting the best male. Also Jesslyn will be talking scapes. Then we will have the usual big group talk, tell us what's happening in your tanks. Good or bad. Raffle, trade table, afternoon tea as always. Please bring a plate of food to share. Soft drink will be provides. Also if anyone has anything spare they would like to donate, either in the form of live shrimp, plants of products/equipment bring them along to add to the raffle, or for the club to sell to raise funds for the 2016 championships.

I have always been inpired by other members crs colonies and i feel like my own colony has finally started to follow in the foot steps of members like @ineke @newbreed and @Jenbenwren. Over the last month i have had a few berried females hatch their eggs. Now i have roughly 30+ shrimplets between 2-4 weeks old. Some of the females have also reberried. So i wanted to share some pics to help inspire some others.

Sorry, it's been a while since I've posted here. Nothing with shrimp really happens fast. Here's the difference of a Shrimp Daddy shrimp and a regular crs in the SD tank. This tank is solely dedicated to Shrimp Daddy products. It's been running since April of this year. I'm beginning to see some nice improvements in my shrimp. Their color and she'll thickness is looking very nice. Thanks Wilson!

Looking great @Disciple keep up the good work mate.

If there's interest, and someone can guide me, I'm happy to attempt a live stream of part of the meeting. Maybe the group discussion towards the end?

Nice thread :) Do yours look like mine (which also came from LCA) in the photo below? Mine all seem to be the same species with same colouration as far as I can tell. It sounds like you may have gotten several species there or maybe just colour forms, though I would think they would all come back to the same colouration once accustomed to your water paramaters. I started with ~20 shrimp also, all 2cm+with most being around the 2.5cm mark. I have about 10 below the 2cm mark at the moment, and can see 100s (if not 1000s) of shrimp zoe/larvae around my moss at night with a torch. P.s. for anyone interested, here is a shot of the eggs under a berried female. Hope you don't mind me posting the photos Proto. If so, let me know and I shall remove them.

At high school the Agriculture teacher got everyone to hold hands and get zapped by the electric fence, I wasnt so stupid as to join the electrical konga line. I know electric fences do throw out a terrific zap. I think the reason the electircity was bother the little fry was because it was hanging around the surface, where as all the shrimp where down on the gravel, and it really was a mild tingling on me but on the fry it would have been akin to how they sample waterways with electrical currents to stun the fish to the surface. It is strange though how it seemed to only be in one spot approx middle of the tank near the front that seemed to electrofied. Goodness only knows how long the filter had been charging the tank, but apparently it didnt bother the hornwort which is growing like crazy in the tank.

Every so often I ike to give my guardian angel something to do, LOL otherwise I think i will get bored

Here are a couple of my shrimp tanks. One is a 12g long that had Blue Diamonds (neos) and the other is a 7g that has my pintos, TB and Taitibee. I'm hoping for some of those nice red pintos soon. There's a few pink bolts in there as well.

Just an update on the patterns that have come through. Pregnant skunk (there's three with that pattern so far) and some weak tiger stripes (dozen or so with that) there's also been a few around without pattern but there bodies are more yellow orange coloured than clear. Egg colours range from bright green to black.

Forgot to add, the longer some thing is produced in captivity the easier it gets to breed, Aquarium compatible generations start to become stronger and breed better and colours comes. A recent one is the L number cats, they have gotten easer in the last 10 years as we learn more and they become Aquarium conditioned, one theory is the bigger ones survive and produce stronger stock and that stock has lost breeding triggers so easer to breed. Breeding triggers= drop in temp, increase in water flow, drop in hardness all of them and many more, for some fish it is even the stress of making the breeding grounds. Bob

OK that helps heaps, I may be able to name them for you but will talk to Jeff first as they may have come from me. I think every one should get 100% marks for trying to breed colour in our shrimp, but its a long term commitment and shrimp with bigger eggs are easier to breed, Ninjas = Serratterostrus = Chameleons and what ever the Darwin one are now are not a prospect as they are OS and if it could be done I would think they would have done it by now, produced new colours, not to say it can not be done. There is many many shrimp that fit the bill for breeding new colours, nobody is willing to put in the time on the right ones and get a AUSSIE ICON going, I don't have time at the moment or the near future. The big thing with new Aussies will be, there will most likely not be colour for a few generations, it is something that has to be breed time and time again. Bob

Shoot me a PM and I can email you the scientific papers that mention them. Note you might find some more info looking for "Caridinides" wilkinsi, not "Caridina".