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Nogi showing off his Bloody Marys reminded me that I need to update this thread. I've since moved the colony to a larger tank (now roughly 35L instead of 27L). I'm concentrating on getting (1) fully coloured legs and (2) solid overall colour coverage. You'll notice the oldest ladies below with the back stripes have less coverage on their legs than the smaller females, so it seems like I'm getting somewhere. This is my main male. Bred him myself. Notice he even has good colour coverage on his pleopods. Not as good colour as the females, but definitely better than what I started out with. Finally, a little salute to all lovers of "Bloody Mary" cherries!

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Well last night they went off with a bang. During the day I did a 1/3 water change (rainwater + DIY GH booster) and I also noticed the sponge filter was running slowly so I upped the air and therefore the flow in the tank. This seems to have simulated a rainstorm event resulting in significantly more larval release. So I siphoned them out into a 50µm sieve and then into a moccona coffee jar with some of the tank water. Over the next few days I slowly add salty greenwater culture a little at a time. For DAS I increase the salinity to ~20 ppt. It takes about 1 month for them to metamorphose into post-larval juveniles. For Riffles its an unknown quantity - lots of people report breeding big egged Riffles without salt in the tank with the parents. I've not been successful over a couple of years and the literature says they need estuarine conditions. My shrimp from livefish.com.au originally may have come from locations closer to salt water than some other peoples shrimp. So I'm trying some salt at a number of concentrations. I will split them over multiple coffee jars with different salinities and hope one is successful. The black sticks are irrigation risers connected to air lines as a convenient way to put a few bubbles into the jars.

Welcome @Roy, some great shots you just posted to the gallery. You can insert gallery pics into posts via the Insert other media that appears when you create a new post. It's just above submit (reply).

Oh I am an idiot for replying to the wrong thread! Sorry everyone...Hi S2F the slugs on the glass sound like Planaria and the corkscrew worms are nematodes ( generally harmless). It's up to you what you would like to do with the Planaria. Just keep in mind that larger Planaria might feed off baby shrimp, that is why most people tend to want to get rid of them.

I've been looking forward to getting these for three weeks after spotting them at my LFS. My first cherries ? My LFS guy (who is awesome) said they tend to throw about 90% blue variants but wasn't sure exactly the lineage they'd come from. Anyone with experience breeding ones with this hue/pattern can comment?

If they don't breed true possibly descendants of the choc. My old chocs threw similar blues.

Update on section 1. Blue Dreams and PRL. I have Not taken many pictures of my Cherries and focused on my other shrimp so this time I wanted to share more cherry pics.

Not strictly the best of my reds, but they where mostly crammed around one of the plants in easy focus range for the camera. Some of the girls are really showing amazing clarity in their red. This girl would have to be one of the best blacks I currently have, I know there is at least 5 similar girls in the tank but they are not all that obliging in coming within camera range even with the bribery of food. At least one of the girls I know is berried so I have my fingers crossed she throws some more stunning black babies. I think the glossiness of her shell is what really takes my breath away, that and the undertones of blue like a male jaracini finch in sunlight.

I often see questions around culling and not selling culls etc.. Anyway, the main reason I cull is so that I can remove poorly coloured shrimp like: So that I can focus on breeding and improving quality of shrimp like: This is a new colony for me and I'm fortunate enough to get a pretty good start with some great coloured Bloody Marys. In the past I've started with nothing but quality similar to the first pic and it's a long and hard path but worth it in the end. All of the above are Sakura grade btw even though some of the pictures look a little on the higher side there are still a lot of patches of transparency that aren't showing up in the images and the legs are not solid. The grading applied should be consistent with the male/female and offsprings. No point grading something as fire red if all the offsprings are of a lower quality. And a couple of pics of happy coexistence

Taking it to the next level Welcome to Disciple Shrimp Youtube Channel haha I thought you guys might enjoy a video.

Its been a couple of weeks since the last update. I have finally gotten my water parameters where i want them since coming back from my holidays. My fire/suraka reds have settled in. Its taken 6 weeks but they are looking great if i do say do myself. The oebt are doing great. A lot of shrimplets are becoming juvies. Feeding time is going to produce some epic shrimp balls in a month or so ehen they become adults. Never thought that I would say this but it seems the tank is getting full. I will have to let some of these babies go. Anyways i hope you enjoy the pics.

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.

I should note that the chart is one of many available on the web. It's had some criticism in the past on FB, mainly because there are too many charts around confusing people. That said, feedback was taken on board and the chart has improved through its iterations. The one here has no commercial interest and has been developed for the benefit of our members and had many peer reviews and backed by breeder experience. I'm happy for people to continue challenging/providing feedback on our chart as that's the only way we will a) improve it and b) get wider acceptance.

I have also experienced deaths after water changes. As jayc says, you must add new water slowly. From my side, I now perform 15% water changes only every 3-4 weeks, as long as water paramaters (TDS, No2-No3) are safe.

Avoiding regular water changes is not the answer. you just need to take care that the new water matches the correct parameters for the shrimp you are keeping, and that you add the new water slowly. <edit> - you can probably stretch water changes by checking TDS. If TDS is rising from it's ideal, then it's time to change water. Is there any chance of separating the fish from the shrimps? It looks like the fish are getting to all the food before the shrimp.