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Hi all! Just registered to this forum and I've been hovering some threads trying to learn as much as I can. So, a little background... I'm a 23 years old Portuguese fish keeping fanatic for the last 13 years and I recently became fascinated with shrimps so I decided to get some from a friend that I met back in college. I bought 10 red cherry shrimps as I knew they were the guppy equivalent to shrimps and my friend threw in a couple of red rillies in the bag. After keeping the small colony in my community tank with some tetras and similar small sized fish for some months, it grew in numbers until, last February I decided to go a little bit deeper. I started researching shrimp grades and came across some really confusing terms... I prepared a tank and separated about 5 red cherries with some ok-ish solid color. By this time I knew that those 2 red rillies were going to cause me trouble, since my goal at this point was to go from red cherries to Fire Red or Painted Fire Red(a bit confused in this part yet, so I appologize for that). Even though I knew that going from lower quality shrimps to higher quality was way more time consuming and more work needed to be done than starting with already a good batch, I thought that since I started with shrimps to learn, I might as well start from the bottom and understand how is the process of having good quality shrimps step-by-step. Mid-February I had my first shrimplets from those 5 that I had previously separated, and surprise surprise, about 5 red rillies mixed in there. What started bugging me, was the color of the new shrimps. Even in my community tank, where I've left the majority of the initial colony, just in case, the color was nothing like this! My red cherries (maybe low "grade" Sakura) were orange! I started thinking how did that happen, and in the meanwhile I just let the small shrimps grew and waited for the next eggs to hatch (since by this time I already had 2 more female carrying eggs [is this the "berried" term that everyone talks about? Female with eggs??]). I started to give my shrimps more vegetables thinking that maybe it was the food that was causing the color change. And then again, more oranged-colored shrimps hatched.... I was getting really worried I was doing something wrong and so I reached one of my colleagues from college who is a serious shrimp breeder. He told me that I should separate those orange cherries, as they were low graded ones, and gave me a shrimp food from the company he works at. While I try to solve the color problem, I'm selecting the shrimps that have more similarities with sakuras, even though the color is definetly not there, but atleast I'm trying to get rid of the rilly patern in this colony. And here I am! Finally founded a nice place on the web to learn more about how to keep shrimps, and dear lord I have a lot to learn after looking some of the topics that exist here! Sorry about my long monologue and for my english, and I hope that my experience doesn't make you want to throw a brick at me! hehe Take care! :D

Havent posted for a while but but have been breeding a lot and did some work in the shrip room to had a second rack. Here are some pictures of the results of my crossbreeding projects. Some pictures of my crs and Prl

Hello all new member here. Im currently setting up my first shrimp tank since moving back to WA. Had alot of fish tanks and 1 shrimp tank with numerous cherries a few years ago in NSW. Tank im setting up is 3ft around 130 litres I think. 18kg of ADA amazonia substrate and currently has a Fluval internal filter until the water is cleared up from the damn substrate! Planning on switching to 2 or 3 sponge filters once I get some shrimp. I will be planting the tank with some type of moss and a few plants yet but im still undecided on which.. and also undecided on lighting. Shrimp going in will be chocolate cherries, and ill be setting up a small 1ft tank for some other shrimp.. ill post pics once the water clears up a bit.

Ok here goes, for my new tank project I plan to cut down on existing tanks and breeding racks by combining a rack into the sump. I've got a 1500x600x600 planted display tank to filter ,heat/cool & look pretty by removing unnecessary system components like heaters etc by putting them away under the cabinet. Rack will be for shrimp breeding, namely CRS,CBS and TB varieties and CPD spawning. I've already got a 1500L x360d x40h tank divided by glass into 5 equal 300mm sections with stainless steel mesh flow through ports so the tank could run off one single filter system. My idea is to turn bays 1 & 5 into the inlet/media/filter & return pump/heater sections, and then divide the 3 remaining bays in half (150mm wide) with removable Perspex dividers with stainless mesh flow through ports. These dividers will sit about 20mm into an aqua soil substrate so water will also be able to flow under them through soil. There will also be a eheim 2217 looping in and out of the sump to run a chiller through so I get the extra filtration of that too. Sump will have a drilled emergency drain that goes under house out to garden. I would also like to have an R/O ATO incorporated somehow. Here are some sketches, please excuse the roughness. excuse 380 dimension, should read 360mm Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Oh boy.... It seems that I'm in trouble ? This was the one I initially selected for this new colony (is it close to sakura, by the way?) And this one, even though is still young has a much lighter more orangy color that I talked about. Thank you for taking the time to welcome me :D

Welcome! Cool story and time to start saving for more tanks. It's the inevitable haha. First step is accepting your addiction[emoji14]

Welcome!! This forum is great for feeding the addiction haha. Looking forward to hearing the news from your shrimp colony!

Thank you so much! I kind of missed the dynamic of forums :)

Thanks. They are a good lighting system. The 7020 samsungs were off eBay !

Thank you guys. It is not a blue bolt, it is a taitibee. When you are crossbreeding it is important to remember the genetics behing each shrimp. As an example the shrimp in the next 3 pictures are not twb.

Welcome to the forum, such a good introduction i must say. I look forward to seeing your future developments :)

hehe I've got a rack that is already to stock with natives. Just have to go find some.

Always nice to see pics of great shrimp. Thanks for sharing. come back more often haha.

Here's the makemyleds on full Yes that's the light in first one and yes it is pinker in real life!

If anyone has the missing pics, high res prefered, please let me know. @waffle, with my previous colony, carbon rillis descended from my blacks which descended from my chocs.

These photos inspired me to get tangs and no regrets!! They're such a lively and striking variety.

Beautifull pictures. It is one of my favourite shrimp to take pictures of. Very adaptable, i bred mine in ph 5.6 with twb parameters and ph in 7.4 with davidi parameters.

That parch of 7/8ths dead moss is "mini american" moss it spend 2 months in a post bag befor it got to me ? Looks like i might be able to save some!

Daddy with shrimplet :) Odoslané z LG-D855 pomocou Tapatalku

Yai!!! I found them: our local Zebra!: Here is the big Mamma, a little bigger than the yellow Mammas ^^) Also found some kind of "Swiss Cheese" Black tiger Also found some very nice aquatic ferns: Blechnum Francii Type A (aka Rosenstock) Blechnum Francii type B Eriocaulion Sp 1 This has been a good week-end

Some pics of my latest aquisitions. I suspect they are Paratya australiensis. They have an overall pale blue body with a golden head covered in black spots. The photos really don't do them justice. Interestingly some of them do not have a rostrum. Not sure if this is a genetic defect, environmental or physical damage. They were found above a waterfall so I suspect the larvae will hatch out as mini adults. They have gone into a tank with my riffles (Australatya striolata).

Been keeping these very cool natives for a while now. finally got the first batch of surviving bubs. very happy to find some running around the tank. They are a very interesting shrimp to keep and observe.

Well the tank I call my "Native Tank" is now I think officially full. The little spotted blue eyes have been doing their thing and I recently just spied another 2 newborn fry and a slightly older one. I am hoping to eventually end up with a really decent sized self maintaining school of them. Sharing the tank are Blackmore River Shrimp which seem to go through phases of heaps and lots of babies down to a few, back up to a population explosion as it warms up again. The tank is heated of course other wise they would freeze in winter, but they still seem to decline or slow in breeding during winter. Then there are the Northern Australian Chameleon Shrimp also in the tank, I don't often get to see them but when I do they are always a pleasure. The tank is now also home to a group of Darwin Algae Shrimp, and most recently some Darwin Red Nose Shrimp. In all honesty I think instead of simply calling this tank my native tank I need to call it my NT tank. But then there is the snails that are sharing the tank with all the NT beauties. Slowly but steadily I have increased the notopala snails up to now 8 which has taken many hours of regular searching in a local stretch of river watching all the time for crocs. With the notopala snails I have also found some other gems, namely a HUGE type of long black snail along the lines of MTS, but these black ones are a LOT bigger and have pretty yellow spots on their bodies. The other snail of interest is a smaller snail again similar in shape to MTS and roughly around the same size but it has very defined blunt spikes on its rather chunky shell. Some of the spotted blue eyes The huge black snail The chunky little spiky snail And my Notopala species