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Not 100% guaranteed. I don't have any scientific proof. But it has happened on many occasions for many people. It's just observed experiences. They need the energy for the whole process - from moulting, to mating, to move from being saddled to laying the eggs. Females can hide for a large amount of the time they are carrying eggs, and do not eat. So fattening them up before hand with protein rich foods really helps them survive that period of fasting. After the eggs have hatched, is when you need to feed them more protein rich foods as well. Helps to get the females recover for the next round. Feeding bloodworms is the most convenient and common method of providing proteins. The protein content in normal shrimp food doesn't count, that's mainly plant proteins. You need meat proteins. Hence Ozshrimps reference to feeding steak above. Don't actually go feeding steak, but bloodworms will do. I use both bloodworms and a Low Keys product called B18 Protein Powder.

I have few blue velvet. 4 males and, good surprise, 1 female! I thought I had none left and was trying to crossbreed the blue velvet with my carbon rili. This morning I took out the female and 2 males and put them in a special tank. The guys were dancing all around as the girl was trying to hide. I found a nice molt in the tank, so I think it's a good sign I may have a chance the colony will launch. Pray for me! I also noticed that the female is completely blue, a nice blue, as the little guys are from a lighter blue, but show red headgear. Should this last or do this red will disappear once they grow holder? It seems one of the male is completely blue, but the 3 others show this red headgear. That's funny and I like that too.

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've just had a berried female die too... A day after a water change. Looked like her shell was splitting on her back too. Was pretty sad :( I don't feed blood worms so will do that occasionally. The White Clouds I have in the tank will go crazy for it though. About once a week I do shrimp pellets, some spinach it an algae tab. Where does one get mulberry leaves from?

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

It will most probably change into a solid black but I can hope haha.

Got a interesting blue tatibee

about 8 hrs and I don't think the removalist will like it lol. Moving in February found out today :)

There you have it. I use the Big Bang change over method as well. Partially because I am too impatient to wait for results.

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

Monday Blues Please help cure people this week. blue mama

My blue pearls

I know I'm a few hours early for Monday, but I have a busy day tomorrow and couldn't wait another week to post this photo! :) I *think* this is a shadow Taitibee (spot the uncontrolled breeding program)

Its that time of the week. Help cure the monday blues.

Blue viewed through a cheap clip on macro lens.