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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 :

Hi all! Very nice pics Damien! How was the water flow in the creek you got them in? Was it deep? Were they on the banks of the creek or in the middle where water flows faster (I presume)? Just trying to know which species can be found in different conditions around here. :) Here are some of mine, I'm guessing they are Paratyas? Not sure about that, they do look similar to Paratya Australiensis to me, and after trying to ID them with the help of our local book, I'm not sure, my biggest "Paratya" female (berried since last week) is exactly 30mm long, and the book mentions individuals up to 27mm, not more. Most of them come from a creek near Mt. Mou, I also have some Caridinas in there, but they were harder to take pics of. The red one is my pride (and she's berried too - yay!), she comes from a small creek just outside Nouméa, she was caught with a couple other reddish females (not as much as her), a couple quite colored red males and an interesting blue male. There were also some "tiger" patterns in some of the other shrimp caught that day, mainly yellow stripes on a blue/dark body, I'll try to get new pics when they possible. These pics are a couple weeks old, they were taken with a friend's camera and I just got them a couple days earlier. First, the "Big Momma" as we call her: Here she is flirting with a male on the driftwood, no wonder she's berried now :) The flirting male went to tell his buddy about it: And finally, the berried red Caridina (she shows the same tiger stripes pattern as the others mentioned above in my post): I really want to isolate the red individuals but I first need to find and cycle a decent tank for them. I'd also like to isolate the "tiger" phenotype but that means another tank, as you all know... :) Cheers everyone, have a nice day!

This is what i have organised so far plus a couple of boss aquaria packs. I'll see what else i can get my hands on ..