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AS per the request of the CPD guru, I've started a thread to keep you posted and myself to keep track of my Breeding efforts. i have kept CPD for a long time after getting one for free from my LFS (last one they had about 4 years ago) Over that time I've bought more than i thought i ever would, but never got a successful breeding program happening. At one point i had 40 and never saw results (although they were in a display tank and i wasn't giving breeding a real concerted effort) Now I'm back to 6 adults I've had going for a while and recently they started spawning. i only knew after spotting some fry in the tank (200L planted community tank) a frantic search for info led me to S1l3nt's thread - Here i'll update this with some more backstory and history later for now i'll add that so far i had collected 2-3 fry every few days over the course of a month until i had 18, keeping them in a cup in the water attached to the main tank as described in the thread above. then i lost few but not sure why. then a few days ago i collected 9 in one hit. so i must be at around 24/25 now. ill add some pics soon.

Hi everybody. So I would like to present our (my and partner) sulawesi tank. Size:60x30x30cm Volume: 60l (water 45l) Substrate: JBL aquabasis, JBL florapol and JBL manado (6cm) Filtration: JBL e401 with micromac (JBL ceramic balls), seachem matrix and seachem purigen Secondary filtration:HBL with seachem Denitrate Lightning: 1x24w T5 Small RGB led stripe Decorations: Lawa rock 8kg approximatelly Also some of denitrate and matrix directly in the tank Flora: Pogostenon erectus, sagitaria subulbata (or something like that), algae ball, singapore moss, cameroon moss, christmass moss and flame moss and surprise surprise hemiatus cuba Additional: Oxygenator mini, borneo wild mineral balls, mironekuton stone, at sulawesi mineral water conditioner, GlassGarden bacter AE Food: algae, ebi pro sulawesi, at sulawesi, at tylomelania, sometimes leafs, GlassGarden BetaGlucan Water: RO water remineralized with salty shrimp sulawesi 8.5 No2/3 = 0 NH 3/4 = 0 Gh and Kh = 7 Ph = around 8.0 250/270 μs Fauna: 10x Caridina Denerli, 10x Caridina striata, 2x Tylomelania sp. Orange

Ah, so with one of the bigger macros you'd need a fairly large setup!

Macros tend to leave plants alone. It is a myth that any organism will only grow to the size of its aquaria. They will grow to reach their normal adult size UNLESS the conditions are so bad that the organism is stunted - IMO a cruel result of neglect on the part of the aquarist. This is completely different to saying that the organism stops growing to suit its aquaria.

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No I find if I put the shrimp in a white container and shine a light on it you can see if it has a blue base. So even if it looks black - under light on white you should see blue - works most times for me. I've had really nice blue babies that end up black . I think most of us have. All of these babies are now black

So since my last post I've not been able to work out which shrimp is zoolander any more! I've seen 2 shrimp that are about the right size, but they both look black rather than blue. I'm not sure if that means zoolander didn't survive, is hiding somewhere or has just darkened with age. In the below group shot one of them is on the bottom right hand side (hard to miss such a dark shrimp!) the other is being sat on by an adult so it mostly obscured :) Does anyone think it's possibly the same shrimp?

As requested, it is my pleasure to share some more pictures of my oebt and some fire red. I hope everyone enjoys.