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I came across this Japanese website that shows the biotope of Sulawesi shrimps. Thought you guys with Sulas would be interested. (Need Google translate to English). http://equator.web.fc2.com/indonesia-sulawesi-danao.htm http://equator.web.fc2.com/indonesia-sulawesi-danaomatano.htm http://equator.web.fc2.com/indonesia-sulawesi-danaoposo.htm

All been going well since my last post. Every tank now has plenty of berried girls. Lucky enough to have 3 X BB pure TB female all berried up and got my fingers crossed for a little pure WR & a KK to be female. Yeah all tanks and the sump are insulated hoping to reduced the power cost a little, heaps of room if need. I normally do a 20ltrs (2.5%) about every 2-3 weeks. RO water top ups week. I also add either Super Bacter Bee MAX (love the fruity smell) or Mironection powder or Bacter AE. Food, either Boss snow or crack or Jayc candy once per week, weekly either fresh kale (homegrown), mulberry leaves, bee pollen or Benibachi kale table or red bee ambitious. I also uses Biomax, White pellet and my all time favorite is Biozyme, My breeding goals are simply to have tanks full of pure TBs. Some good CRS & CBS, Tang tigers and hope to try OEBT

An update on this old tank. It's amazing what happens when tanks are ignored..

They vary from deep red all the way down to pale pink and now and again white (pretty rare). they are about a 3rd of the size of a cherry shrimp but what they lack in size they make up in life span, living for 20 years is achievable

i have the salt already. enough for 20gal of full strength seawater- so in a 40gal tank 1/2 strenght :O i have a sea glass collection too!! can i put that in there for decoration!?

Ahhh I'm on there too and remember your topic

looks great mate!

Also, a big shout out to everyone with tips and hints. It all helped a great deal. I was lost otherwise just thinking about it!

Some really nice shrimp there mate.

yeh im stoked with this gear, pH is rock solid at 6.4 now :-) i should have gone with it in the first place, never going to bother with fulvic grains again that's for sure! my 2 berried ladies are hanging on. i got rid of that fake seachm matrix rubbish i had in the filter (FUN JOB when it's all mixed in with those little eheim balls arghghh!!) currently i'm doing a 50% waterchange today (ongoing since this morning, will be finished 20-24 hours after i started lol, fingers crossed that doesn't disturb them at all :-) falling in love with CRS... woooops bad move i feel a case of MTS coming on... as for BEP i hope it buffers forever after men. love n peace will

Yes most of them you can mix without cross breeding. It is hard to tell males/females until they are mature. At least I find it hard hahaha. Very nice specimen by the way!

congrats ! what method did you use?

Well done. A little planning paid off. Moving house can be devastating when other "life factors" muscle in and try to be more important than the shrimp!

i spoke too soon. after removing the last dying or dead specimen i could find i came across a very very healthy looking one (female is my guess!) hopefully theres another one i missed somehow. if not i may need a sperm donor

Long time no post Been quite busy and been absent for a while. My bad! I realized I did not post photos of the custom tanks that I got made for the room. These are 4 900by400by28 tanks divided into 6. Each section is sealed, essentially a separate tank. These are my fry tanks. I have found they work great for me. Here is the tanks in use I also got 3 3foot tanks and a 55long tank made. These tanks have been very useful in raising large number of fish.

So they don't cross breed? I have 4 white gloves but not breeding at all. Hope they aren't all male [emoji20] Can't afford anymore atm.

Limnopilos naiyanetri

Going nicely, cool update

Hi Disciple & Fishmosy, will try to get some good photos of each tank tomorrow & will provide details. What I can tell you now is, its nothing to fancy, basically I have cherries, Tb's, TBM's, CRS, mischlings & tang tigers. Hi Inverted, I originally thought the rusty SS strainers were causing the pH & GH issues. I know feel it was my inexperience with TB WP, that lead me to jump the gun and blame the rusty strainers. I’m now sure that the general rise in TDS from 145-150 to 170-180 also increased the GH. I still fairly new at this. My current problem is directly related to adding the 5 new tanks (bottom row) to the system. The problems I encountered were 1) underestimating the impact of adding 200 ltrs of tank water (5 tanks) with a pH of 5.4 to approximately 600lts with a pH of 6.4. The 5 tanks had fully cycled and I add 1 tank at a time to the existing system over 5 days. Within a few week the deaths stated & monitoring the WP of the different tanks showed that different WP in different tanks. It’s taken about 4 weeks for the system to find its balances with all tanks having the same WP. So if anyone like builds a rack and plans to add different tanks time over 6-8 months due to cost, are likely to run into the same problems with multiply deaths.