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Just love your setup inverted! I have 11 stand alone 24" tanks run with 2 double sponge filters each in an air conditioned room and a large 215 litre tank run with 2 canisters, 4 double sponge filters and a chiller for my TB colony - it was my CRS colony but now TB- the shrimp room has changed a little since that photo with better lighting and the front strip of lighter soil has been removed but otherwise as is.

It has been a while since I have posted and I promised @NoGi I would post some photos I took recently so here is a few shots for everyone to enjoy :) I have ~10 adults and ~5 juvies of these guys. The juvies look quite good, so I am hoping they will be of high quality in adulthood also. I had a female drop some shrimplets about 2 days ago now, so hopefully more quality shrimp too! I am currently working on letting them get their numbers up, at which point I will begun "culling"/removing lower quality shrimp and working on getting their white as strong as possible as well as ensuring good colour throughout the shrimp and working on more colour into the legs. But this is a long way away at this stage! Let me start with a freshly born shrimplet! This guy is a couple of hours old roughly: One of my berried females (lower quality female but is very productive) A female (She is my best female but have never seen her berried) - She is also a little smaller than others. Can shrimp be stunted/runts like fish can? Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the thread and shots :)

Welcome to the forum mate i look forward to seeing ur shrimp journey

Welcome to the forum @Ayrshire shrimp. U got some nice looking shrimp

Yeah I'm noticing nice increases in blueness each molt. The blondes are also getting a really solid amber colour.

Hey just saw that I forgot to reply to this and let you know how I got on sorry about that be busy. Kept the lights off for 2 weeks to be sure and covered the tank so no light could get into it. It did die off but is slowly coming back again and seeing it in another tank too thinking the lights might be too close to the tanks. I'm going to get some acrylic so I can move the lights up and see what happens then Paudie

I'm running several types 1. Can't remember lol (up Aqua or mr Aqua ?) 2. Pro z .... Probably my favourite (clean white well made) 3. Pet works led 4.make my led(has awesome programmable controller) 5. Homemade Samsung 7020 strip

Hi nogi thanks for having me lol What u think of my shrimp?

Anybody like to weigh in on this WR - Saddled?

OK cool thanks I'll tackle it tomorrow and let you know how it goes. Thanks jayc

Hi Paudie. An RO/DI unit will always be better than just an RO unit. Some contaminants do not measure well with a hobbyist grade TDS meter, it takes a conductivity or resistivity meter to measure them. Some of these include phosphates, silicates and nitrates among others. Which means that a TDS meter can show 0 TDS, even if phosphates, silicates and nitrates are present. RO membranes don't deal with this sufficiently. But the DI resin filter will. So by combining a DI resin filter to the RO membrane, you get the purest water. I would suggest a DI filter instead of another carbon cartridge, if you can fit it in. Note: when we talk about 'RO' water we usually mean water that has been filtered through an RO/DI filter. DI filter cartridges expire very quickly. And is usually the first cartridges that needs replacement when you start to see TDS rising from your RO/DI unit.

My biggest tank is a 2 foot display tank :) These guys are in a 40x25x30 (aquaspace 40 i picked up from costco a while ago haha). I also have a breeding rack set up with a bunch of 45x30x30 tanks but these are all filled with fish, as well as a grow out tank for fry. Too much light? I have had the same issue in my tanks too but I am 90% sure its due to high light and lack of plant growth. Have put a bunch of fast growing stems in now to see what happens. Well to be honest, from speaking with Glenn, I consider them the same species just a different grade. At the moment I probably have 3-4 i consider high quality with as much white as possible. The rest are probably mid with 1-2 low grades. Once numbers go up a little bit (i only have ~10 adult at the moment) then I will start line breeding and working on stronger whites and white in legs also (most have colour in legs but only half way, etc). Long process but a bit of fun :)

Thanks! Yes that is one of my concerns also... This is why I had planned to use a very small power head instead of an air lift version. Our apartment is air conned and the tank has fans over it which keep the tank at 24 degrees even on the 40 degree days (or multiple ones) as we run air con heavily on these days. Haha yes I have a feeling this is what I will also do! But I would love to try and get it as I have some really nice shrimp that i'd like to try and get to breed together to improve my line. Eventually I might even set up a breeding tank for shrimp on the rack, at hte moment its full of CPD and apistos! haha. I wish I had space for a 4 foot tank and less love for apistos (My favourite fish so i am a heavy collector of rare ones haha). But that sounds like a very nice tank to me! Lots of space used up this way though.

good luck with that! i wouldnt do it in summer if your using an external breeder box as the flow is not sufficient to maintain the cooler temps of the chilled tank water and susceptible to quick change on real hot days. I have tried th separation thin in breeder boxes a few times and i end up putting them back in the tank lol. Like they say a watched kettle never boils so i ended up giving up lol I have considered when i move next year if i am able to run my 4 ft divided tank put all my shrimp in one section, then selective breed in the second whilst utilising the 3rd to hold my berried girls so that i can control the shrimplets when they grow

Nice mate!, i used to love having snow whites a couple of years ago but they all died before i swapped to RO water. Kinda good they died before they bred though cause didnt mix with my crs