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So almost two months in and it's all looking quite lush. Plenty of moss and new plant growth occurring. Thankfully first drops from berries girls who were moved in and this week saw the first drops that we berried on the rack. I am finding it much more fun having the tanks only 40cm deep, instead of 60cm in first rack, as it makes it much easier to view and track all the shrimp and shrimplets.

My shrimp are doing the happy dance tonight. Just spent an hour watching them. I fed them protein rich foods yesterday. Coincidence? I think not. There might be a few more berried girls tomorrow.

i keep, Wine Reds, Kong Kongs, blue bolts, Yellow King Kongs, Pintos (Red spotted, red zebra, black spotted, black zebra) and PRL's My Shrimp Room

The other week on a whim I happened to go out to my local pat shop which I usually never bother with, and saw a fish that was love at first sight. I went from never having known about this fish to have to have and then owning in a matter of minutes. Which fish could make me fall instantly in love you ask? The rather beautiful Dwarf Neon Rainbow, not an Aussie rainbow but lovely and relatively small. The shop only had 6 and where selling them at around $13.95 each, knew I would probably never see them again locally so I got the 6 there and then. The fish came home and settled in nicely with the two remaining pygmy rainbows I still had and some threadfin rainbows, even though the fish all got along fine they all still remained rather skittish and I determined that some more dwarf neon rainbows might be needed. I checked out other local pet shops, even ones in another town but nobody actually had any of these rainbows, in fact hunting down almost any native is nigh on impossible. Enter Livefish, I forget what I was originally looking on there for but on the off chance decided to see what rainbows they had in stock. To my amazed delight not only did they have Dwarf Neon Rainbows in stock but also had them on a special too good to pass up, 5 for $5.99 each. Who could ever resist that sort of a deal? Well not me that's for sure, so I quickly ordered 10. The new 10 have since arrived and all 16 are shoaling together nicely zooming from one end of the 4ft to the other in and out of the plants with I guess fishy glee. My next aim will be to see if I can breed them and keep a colony of them going much like my spotted blue eyes and peppered corydoras. Apparently the Dwarf Neon Rainbows I got are pond bred and I am guessing that means pond bred outside near Childers so I may even be able to keep these PNG tropical outdoors in my 1000L pond. And the usual blue blurr I get when trying to catch their breath taking shimmering colour

this are my shrimps what do you guys find of the tank

You know what @ineke, that seems to be probably the best way to do it and i had never thought of doing that! I spose its exactly like putting new shrimp into your tank. I use a sudo breeder box to reacclimate though slowly increasing the flow to replace the old water in the box with the tank water :) I will use this method in future.

When this was discussed several years ago it was decided the best thing was to take the shrimp out, change the water and then drip acclimatise the shrimp to the tank like when you introduce new shrimp.. I used this method when I changed over all of my tanks (13 tanks) . I dripped them for about 3 hours and had no casualties at all. This method works well and appears to be less stressful than lots of small adjustments. Catching out the shrimp can be a pain especially when there are babies but it's the best way .

two ways to clean below the UGF. 1. is siphon from down the tube of UGF or 2. if u custom the tanks. Put a drainage valve below under the ugf. So when u do water change u do via the valve.

I've cleared the browser cache and also bypassed our office proxy and the toolbar looks the same - perhaps telstra is caching further up the tree. *shrug* - not a problem btw the tooltips are correct. will give it a few days and see if it starightens out

I have 12 tanks all set up using taiwan method, internal divider glass approx 15cm high and 15cm deep, packed with media n soil Sorry Photo rotated... cant see how turn back

a few new ppictures, tomorrow i wil go bussy whit the tanks. i fed way to muchso i need to clean that, and the plants and the wood wil be diffrent tomorrow. and i saw 3 emty bodys on the ground so i am happy. ( whit this i mean that they molded???) dont know the english word. nou i have 3 of 4 shrimpies that are carrieing eegs.. !!! i send tomorrow pictures of what i chanced

The tank just needs time to mature. The plants need time to fill in some more. The sides and back does not seem to have any algae or biofilm yet. So this must be a very new tank. As for the scape, I would move those dwarf swords or grasses further back to mid ground or even the back, and at the foot of that Anubias. It is too dominant at the front and draws your attention to it instead of to the overall scape. Oh, and try to hide that oxydator behind the driftwood.

Okay, so just realised I have not been good at updating this thread! All shrimp have now been moved in and allocated their future homes (breeding programs). I have closed down the CRS jungle and also have now emptied the original rack. The CRS jungle is going to be fully reset with new benibachi soil and will be planted even heavier than previously. The original rack will now become home to guppy and Endler strains. Love their breeding and genetic potential! List of occupants of Rack 2.0 1. Tibee F2 2. Tangerine tigers, The Queen and some Fire Red Cherries 3. Pure TB tank. Pandas, Shadows, WR, RR 4. Skunk Pinto line. Yellow Cherries. 5. Red Rilis. Royal Blue Tiger male. PRL female. Red Bolt female. 6. Green Hulk potential males. SW mischling girls. Spotted pinto mischling girl. Blue Steel potential female. 7. Spotted Head pinto Line. Blue bodied Orange Rili 8. Bluebolts & Pandas from pinto lines. Choc cherries 9. CRS city 10. PRL x PBL bubs. PRL male. as you can see from the mix, getting back into cherry shrimp after a decent break. And also starting some unusual cross breeding experiments. Massive thanks to @ineke @Eshrimp @Disciple @Gbang for majorly helping in establishing my new colonies!! So much fun now the tanks are organised and everyone settled in! Now the next lot of fun can begin!!