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I'm sure someone here will be able to give you some suggestions but I just wanted to pop in and say that this is an excellent example of an informative thread whilst asking a question. It's got a lot of information and pictures to boot. Bloody awesome first post mate.

Some Taitibees waiting to go to new home - I

Sounds good Disciple. I'm still getting asked very basic questions in pm's - I think some people are still not comfortable asking what they see as silly questions - rest assured everyone there is no such thing as a silly question. For every one person asking a question - no matter how simple- there are probably 2 or 3 people eagerly waiting for an answer. So a back to basics night would be good and even though some of us have been breeding for a few years there is still something new we learn when questions are asked. I still see things and go well I didn't know that!

I just remembered this topic and wanted to give it a bump. If anyone is interested I would be willing to run a Q & A on basic shrimp keeping knowledge. I could also try organise Guests to pop in and answer questions. If this would interest you please let me know what the best time and day to run it. If not I could just do create AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread where people can ask me anything about my colonies or setups etc.

Might have to start a Hybrid swap thread where members can put up what they want to swap and then people can pick and choose traits they like that may help with their projects.

Thanks for the Update @ineke Its a little sad to hear that this colony have been broken up but its good that you are happily improving the quality. I have to say this and Jamie's CRS's tanks really inspired me early to mid last year as I tried to get my CRS to breed. I started to do heaps research on SKF, and got some tips off the other keepers. Finally got there but had to sell the colony off. Luckily my PRLs are doing well. Cant wait to see how your new colony is going and looking.

Time to update this thread and try to find the missing pictures that didn't come over with the last update! This CRS colony was doing really well with a huge number of babies surviving however I had been breeding for quantity not quality and found the white on the adults and some new babies was quite poor. I decided with heavy heart to pull the tank down , cull the low grades , buy some decent males and reset the tank. I started by picking out all the low grade males but as my sexing ability is low I cheated and waited until the boys were " dancing" and caught them out. Sad to say probably 2/3 of the shrimp were male - I did make a few mistakes because somehow the some " males " got berried in the cull tank - way to go me! I offered these culls to the local market at $2 each and had a huge interest with 1 couple buying the lot - I stopped counting after 60 and gave them the rest! I tried my best to make sure they didn't breed with them and telling them many times they were culls but I can't stop them if they did decide to use them. I had run out of room in my other tanks and needed them gone and just couldn't feed them to the fish! next I picked out any berried and saddled females, picked the best of them for my breeding program and sold a majority of the remainder. Within a short time I noticed an improvement in the colony but still wasn't happy so more culling and now I'm down to 2 smaller 65 litre tanks with about 40 CRS between them. I also managed to get 3 very nice males from Gbangs PRL albeit culls they are still much better than any of my boys. So about 15 females are in with them and the first babies were hatched about 2 weeks ago . They look good but are still too small to know for sure. The other tank will probably be sold off as I have way too many projects going and 1 CRS tank should be enough. My plans now will just be heavy culling until I get the grades and colours to the intensity I want. So what happened to the big tank??? Well my Taitibee population exploded but I ended up with a lot of CRS/CBS and TB patterns as the Taitibees are now 10 th generation and seem to be reverting to pure bred patterns. As nice a they are they don't look like Taitibees and are not what people want so I have taken all the patterns I don't want to work with and put them into the 980, I've added some KK, Panda, RR,WR and Bluebolts plus some Tiger looking Taitibees and will just leave them to breed together and see what interesting types might show up. In the mean time I was lucky enough to be able to buy some of Disciple's Pure Tigers to use in my Taitibee program to try and get some patterns backU

I would be scared that the whole rack would collapse. I don't say it will, but I always worries about those things when I calculate the total amount of weight. Great project though!