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Oh! Nearly missed out on Monday. Here's my Monday blues, inspired by @neo-2FX who was shrimp-spotting with me today :)

I'm going to put my BB back in with my Pandas after seeing Jo' s shrimp!

My contribution to Monday Blues

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.

One of my glass shrimp somehow rode a giant bubble up to the surface, got flung through the air when it popped (ETA - so it seems like perhaps it just got a boost and jumped), and landed in the neighbouring cherry tank that has only got juvies at the moment. Then it went on a rampage chasing them around. It's not like it was short of space - it's a way understocked tank. As soon as it spotted a cherry come out of hiding it'd chase the cherry until the cherry found a hiding spot it couldn't fit in. Now it is back in the native tank and the airstone is temporarily turned off until I find a suitable cover to prevent bubble-assisted migration -_-

Wow amazing. If you ever wanna sell some shadow pandas please pm me first.

Paratya can and will jump. In the wild they have to deal with riffles, waterfalls, floods, travelling from waterhole to waterhole, ect. I think it's entirely reasonable that the shrimp jumped directly from one tank to another. I've heard that Paratya prey on smaller shrimp species like cherries. Never seen it myself though and I keep Paratya alongside chameleons.

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Now you need to get another one. That one in the pic looks like a male. So you'd need a female. Then you'd need a new tank. Oh boy, I see where this is going ....

Well this is a little awkward but he must have been hanging on a piece of moss.... and I didn't notice. Can I have it back? Just kidding! Your more then Welcome BEN! Just a little thank you for all the help you have given me from when I first joined SKF. As I said before, I probably should have given you two instead of one.

MONDAY BLUES BUMP

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)