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The temperature in New Cal start to cool down. Here are sound critters found in a creek of the New Cal west coast. This one is just 5mm long :

A picture of the Blechnum obtusatum var francii, an endemic aquatic fern from the south of New Caledonia. This fern is able to thrive at 10 meters depth. the deeper it is, the longer are the leaves, around 60/80 cms. Closer from the surface, leaves are around 10/15cms. I have one, very nice. In aquarium, the leaves are translucant, turning to a very nice lime green.

After @Disciple very kindly recommended a protein feed for my little guys every now and then, I went to the frozen fish food section and all the bloodworm products were from China ( sorry, I am still recovering from the melamine milk and dogfood scandal), I wanted to buy an Aussie product for my shrimp, so I settled for Cichlid food containing everything from shrimp, fish, octopus, garlic, spinach, spirulina and I didn't know what Wombaroo was, but it sounded delicious ( really didn't want to google in Petbarn, it's a marsupial milk replacer for those that are interested). I have 7 ottos in my 240 litre tank and 5 Ottos in my 130 litre tank that are well- fed. When I put the smallest piece of the new meaty goodness in, the ottos went nuts and hogged it all. I had to mash a little but up for the shrimp that wanted some. The ottos sucked that Cichlid meat food until there was nothing but a few sinewy bits left...so my question is, how do we really know that they are 100% shrimp-safe?

I hope I can do as good a job as you have done. Anytime you want to miss them you can come by and give me some pointers. If you come back theyll be shrimp waiting for you.