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Hi @buck, thanks yes that is my main tank in the FS thread. It was a proper aquascape, built for me by Adrian at Exotic Aquatic a couple of years ago. Unfortunately since then I had a baby and have less time for scaping, plus it was never really designed for shrimp and they've absolutely gone to town digging things up and getting substrate all over my sand! Nowadays it's mostly overgrown, but I'll try and get some good pics of it after the trim next weekend when it's looking a bit more presentable! That's why I've not started a thread with any pics in, it's a bit like showing people how untidy your house is! ;)

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum. I've had my aquarium for the last 5 years, originally it was for aquascaping and fish, then I decided I liked microfish, then I got some CRS and thus my shrimp addiction was born! I've been keeping Taiwan Bee shrimp for the last 1.5 years, originally the intention was to just try and keep them alive, after I got that sorted the next idea was to get them to breed. The plan went pretty smoothly up to that point but I had real trouble keeping the juvies alive. Anyway, I managed to crack the code and 12 months later I have a 400L tank full of TBs: KK, panda, shadow panda and blue bolts, even a couple of taitaibees after I had a taibee residing in there for a short while. So, long story short, I am a shrimp addict. It's nice to be somewhere I can admit that!

Unfortunately it appears that the native micro crabs are only found down south, but there is bound to be a similar species found in our northern waters. Two of my favourite natives that are harmless in my tanks would have to be Notopala snails and these whopping great black shelled snails.

Cool let me know what you find! I'm kinda keen for any unusual looking peaceful native inverts for my native tank. I've decided riffles don't count as peaceful because they don't understand it's not cool to eat tiny shrimplets so they now have their own tank -_-

macros are an awesome shrimp to keep love mine. have 6 adult australienese with enough space and perches hiding spots they get along ok but only have 1 male or their is usually trouble, their is a heap of bubs in the tank at the moment from them I also have some juvie jardini

Thanks everyone, nice to be here. I have many pictures of my shrimp, oh so many pictures! I thought it'd be rude to just start filling a thread with them on my first arrival. I wanted to take some more recent ones, but my camera skills let me down last night (also it was a Friday and there was a bottle of red wine open). I have this 'group shot' which shows a few of my shrimp last week, apologies in advance for the quality but it was taken after the lights went off so I had to use the flash on my phone. One of the reasons I wanted to join the forum was to learn more about the different grades and colourings of my shrimp. I have a lot of variation in my colony, so I'm pretty sure which ever ends of the spectrum ended up being high vs low quality I'd be happy. Although to be honest, I just like the ones that I think look pretty, regardless of grading. (I have to admit that I do have a particular fondness for 'Rigby', who I believe is an extreme KK - she can be seen just to the right of the middle of the shot, like a little black shrimp ninja). I have blue bolts that are all completely blue & a navy colour, then all different shades of lighter blues up to being nearly completely white with just a sprinkling of blue on their heads. I also had some which appeared to be the result of having the tibee as a father with a light brown/sand coloured stripe in the middle, I'm not sure if any of those survived to adulthood yet (it's a big tank filled with honeycomb rock, so finding a particular shrimp can be tricky). Then I also have my shadow pandas, again with colours that go from dark navy stripes to white with a few blue dots, a few 'plain' pandas and then some king kongs (although I'm not entirely clear on how much white a shrimp can have for them to still be classified as a king kong). My breeding program has, until now, been fairly haphazard - I'll save the full history of that for another post. I do have a second tank set up now and am about to start transferring some of the lesser-favourite shrimp out into that one. I've been delaying doing it for a while though as it means two tanks to maintain carefully (a year ago I had a baby myself and as you'd expect my tank maintenance time has reduced dramatically, the fact I managed to keep the colony alive and now increase it is a miracle).

During the week I received a few packages from SKF members and thought I better show my appreciation. Thanks ‌@OzShrimp for the plants and us fissidens you have sent. They are awesome plus alllllll the extras cheers mate. Thanks ‌@fishmosy for the cool native fern. Hopefully I can get it growing well. Thanks ‌@buck for the mini pelia. I was complaining about my shrimp eating up my mini pelia and he decided to sent me a massive chunk just cause he felt like it. Massive thanks really appreciate it, would have cost me heaps. Finally Thanks ‌@newbreed for the Shrimp Crack and the moss ledges. ALWAYS great service, polite and everything arrives promptly & well packed. I recommend purchasing anything newbreed has for sale you wont regret it. Cheers.

Mini pelia from @buck All the moss ledges are from @newbreed.