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My black Moscow guppies had 23 babies last night very happy with that must of been the water change I did that morning lol

So I thought I better get myself a tds pen now that I keep mishlings and wanting to expand into more shrimps got the Pen from eBay so coming from Hong Kong who knows when it will arrive as I've had stuff come from there in 5 days and others close to 30 days lol. Also got myself some Singapore moss coming Can't wait :)

They tolerate water temps from around 15deg C up to 30ish so sometimes you don't need a heater. Just salty RO water and a tank/container :) edit: no water agitation needed or filters and pumps either.

No wonder they live for 20 years: no water change can kill them. So cool. I do not think we have any of these in Australia yet. Up until now I thought that Opae Ula were just Hawaiian cherries: I was completely wrong and it turns out they are amazing!?

That is correct, they live in brackish water but they can tolerate very low to pretty high levels of salt and you don't have to worry about keeping the levels stable (they are built for fluctuating salt and fresh water changes that come fast or slow). No remineralisers are needed at all :) These are my tanks for them;

See my other thread ;)

The female carrys the eggs like normal freshwater shrimp but for 5 weeks, then they hatch into larvae and get released over a few days. The larvae swim around head down tail up for about 2 weeks before growing into shrimplets. They have little legs that flap around very fast, they are just up from their eyes on either side of the body, if you look carefully you can see the blur of the movement. These guys live for 20 years, don't need water changes and eat maybe one food pellet a month if at all (they eat algae and biofilm that grows naturally). truly amazing shrimp.

Tibee/mishling section this was originally all mishlings then i wanted to have a "play" lol so i took all the male mish out and left in 3 cbs phenotype female mish and a male and female oebt and i really love some of the patterns on the juvies so far particularly the ones that are nice and blue (the photos dont do the blue ones any justice at all) so next step is to cull all of the younger mish and just keep the bluer tibees. Full section shot And the inhabitants

That was a great read Fishmossy, thanks heaps for that. Shep