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Update! A fellow on facebook (if you're also on SKF and seeing this, that'd be cool!) is breeding and selling an almost identical species of crab, Amarinus Laevis. THey grow to approx 22mm, so they're just a tad bigger than amarinus lacustris. He's breeding them in fresh water successfully and selling them really cheap. If anyone was keen to get some I can put you in touch ? I have set of 8 females and 2 males arriving this week so pics coming soon. Apparently they're completely shrimp safe and survive/breed in water conditions suited to both neos/tigers and crystals/TBs. They do, however, snack on tiny snails but ignore adult ones. The guy keeping them says this allows him to have adult ramshorns in the tank to do clean-up duty without them breeding like mad and taking over the place. So, let's see how this goes!! Museum Victoria has some great photos! http://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/species/14241

So I got the last of my stuff today and started to put it all in. First up, black vinyl to cover the back: Whacked in some temp stuff to help start the bio load: Done for the night: Can you spot the facepalm move in one of the pics above?

Great article @fishmosy a shrimp that should be in all collections and not just for feeding fish, I also read that they are harder to see by some fish in a tank due to their colouration almost being clear. Thanks for the great advice and knowledge shared.

Welcome Cindy, nice work in the auctions tonight! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@KeenShrimp kindly sent me some to try out and they are definitely the favourite among my (spoilt, fussy, and probably overfed) shrimp so far. The tang tigers grab them and swim into dark corners to feast alone, whereas DAS, neos, and paratya like to share happily. My shrimp are actually most keen on the yellow ones!

Nah he's not actually dead... Yet. I've got him hanging out in a net. I've treated the tank with planaria zero I hadn't actually opened it. The old no planaria had a much bigger spoon, and when you treated the water in the tank all went milky. With planaria zero the spoon is minuscule. Dosed 6 spoons into a cup of tank water, mixed it up and poured in. Water barely went cloudy at all. 30 minutes later you wouldn't know I've done it. Any way he is still holding on for now and looks quite happy.... LOL couldn't resist ;)

after finding the quality in my large colony of CRS just not improving late last year I pulled it down and changed the large tank over to my TB tank. I sold off most of the CRS and kept the best. I added some very good cull males from GBANG - Glenn - showing that not all culls are equal. After a few months the quality of my CRS began to improve dramatically. I now had them in a 2 foot tank and was able to see them better and started culling out any low grade or any worth poor colour. I only kept 3 males and 10 females initially and as the number grew I sold off more youngsters and also the initial adults keeping about 20 juvies of S & SS grade as my colony. I now have setup an oversize 30" tank that finally finished cycling this week. I have put about 30 CRS into this tank to finish growing and will do a final cull in a few weeks bringing the colony back down to 15 or so of the best. Hopefully I can continue to get good results with these new juvies. I'm starting to get some nice red legs - not full red yet but it's a start- and the white is much better, the red always was fairly good . These CRS have come from my line that has not bred any Goldens for 3 years and I have never had them in with CBS during that time. I was going to sell off the whole colony a while ago - that's why I sold off the adults as I wasn't going to breed them any more but after seeing the improvement it has inspired me to continue. I have included some pictures of the old colony, the new tank, a few of the babies and also some pictures of the old tank now used as my TB tank . I recently bought some extra TB from Newbreed - Jamie - he sent some lovely shrimp including some berried girls so hopefully a population explosion will be seen soon

Newbreed Aquatics -Pisces rocks , that's 2 x 15 kg boxes worth. It goes a long way . The CRS you bought are the new crop Foxpuppet. They have Gbang's boys as their father and my best girls. You should do well with them. I have kept siblings from them and the generation before them to breed on.

Hello Everyone! My real name is Liv! I look forward to learning what I can from everyone and sharing where I can as well! I'm based out of the east coast and our access to shrimp is limited here. http://www.shrimpfever.com/ is the only real place to get quality shrimp and shipping always gets you. The shrimp from here are good though and I am trying to decide what to get in my next order! I have been out of the hobby for a few years now. In the past I very successfully breed blue velvet (neos) and OEBT. I tried CRS and pumpkin shrimp but didn't have much luck. This time around I am thinking to tackle something a bit more advanced but supposedly very hardy! He has some black Tibees for sale and I really want to try them! I'm worried I might not be a good enough keeper/well enough prepared. Though from my reading Tibees are easier than CRS for example. The other options are to just buy CRS, or CRS and Tigers half and half. I'm using sea chem Aquasolium so the ph is buffered down to about 6.8 in theory. (Ph meter reading the same.) My water is at 75 F I don't have any test kits beyond PH and am not overly trusting of the water coming from my taps in this apartment. I may end up going to get RO/DI water fill-ups at a local shop to be safe if I get new shrimp. I added a couple cherry shrimp from pets unlimited. It is going out of business and I think everything in there is in really bad shape. Lots of tank tear downs and dead fish. Its hard to say if the 4 cherries I got died because of my water or the health conditions from the shop. They survived in my tank about a week, and the extra baby that slipped in the bag #5 died tonight. I did pick up three more blue velvet red cherry mix from them again to give it one last test before the bigger order. I got some Fluval Biological Enhancer as well and added that prior to adding the new three. Shortly after adding the new shrimp and the water from the pet store the last baby died. The tank pictured is a modified fluval edge made into a rimless 6 gallon. With custom 6 watt (5 white, 1 blue) LEDS to the original switch/hood. The light was done by the local shop. There is an acrylic water guard added with silicone. (Something Fluval should have done with the original) The black tape is actually to block the light bleed from the LED's' until I paint the sides. This is already way too long so I will stop it here for now! (The picture is older from when the temp was at 77, I lowered it last night to 74 foolishly and that sharp swing claimed another shrimp.)

Hi my name is vashti me and my partner are fairly new to the shrimp keeping world...just wanted to introduce Myself and i hope to gain a lot of advice from the forum thanks for the regestraition ?

Unfortunately it appears that the native micro crabs are only found down south, but there is bound to be a similar species found in our northern waters. Two of my favourite natives that are harmless in my tanks would have to be Notopala snails and these whopping great black shelled snails.