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Actually I just realized that subscribers can list in sell but non-subscribers can't. Whereas everyone can list in wanted. It wouldn't work if we merged it all unless we made it open for all or only for subscribers. Can open it up and we can look at other ways in which members can be encouraged to subscribe and support the site.

What about a general section in shrimp with those prefixes?

@zn30 I found this forum extremely helpful when I first started with shrimp- I was given 4 free red Cherries when buying some plants for my fish tank I had never heard of or seen them before - I am still learning and still receive great help from friends I have made here. The good thing about a more closed forum like this is that information is monitored and if incorrect info is given or if there are other ways of doing things then the moderators are quick to step in and add more or the correct information. Sometimes on other sites well meaning people pass on a lot of information that is wrong and that causes a lot of frustration when you are new and keep getting conflicting things told to you. Happy shrimping.

Can do, what's the scientific name for it? If no one else has an issue we can.

Expand on the Fish Keeper subforums. We need these ones ... Fish Health & Care, Fish Food & Nutrition, Fish Societies. Can I have a Killifish subcategory please?

@ineke we are relatively new with shrimp, cherries, just over a year now, and CRS since April this year. We will be depending on the experienced shrimp breeders as yourself and the local Geelong, Ballarat and Melbourne shrimp breeders to improve my line of shrimp in the future. We have been breeding fish for over fifty years, I'm glad that we stumbled across shrimp by finding a hitchhiker on a plant we bought from a LFS, this male cherry shrimp sailed around a catfish tank cleaning away unperturbed however we felt sorry for him so we purchased five cherry shrimp for company which has produced over 2,000, and counting, offspring. I have sold a lot of the lower grade cherries to a LFS that keeps paying for the hobby. Thank you to yourself and all the others that have provided us with the info that ensures we are providing the parameters that healthy shrimp require. Sorry for the rambling.

Yep, I have to choose between buying shrimp stuff or a fancy camera and the shrimp always win- please excuse the photo quality. This tank is now 2.5 months old: It's not pretty at all as I cannot cover bits with plants and am too worried about upsetting these guys to scape it. The ramshorns will be removed at some stage, but I am messing with the tank as little as possible. I was very nervous about starting a Sulawesi tank as I read that they need stability. I wanted overfiltration, and as much of it that I could stuff in a small tank as I could. So I took a 29 litre Animates desktop tank and altered the filtration: I cut a 2cm x 1cm window where the filter intake slot was and covered it with nylon mesh and coral glue to increase water circulation (the solution does not look as classy as it is efficient). I also wanted something better than a sponge filter as my second filter: I bought an Acrylic corner filter: upon receiving it I noticed that the factory didn't even put intake slots in the filter, so it was just blowing bubbles and not circulating any water at all. I cut my own holes, rearranged the sponges so that shrimplets can't get sucked in. Then I stuffed that puppy with Eheim substratPro and a few other bits (yup, all I need now is a fake Nemo, suspended from fishing line to complete the plastic look :(, but it works like a charm and that water is crystal clear. Pisces black inert quarts in the bottom. MarinePure filter media in the built-in filter. I have to thank very patient Chelsea @The Tech Den: I emailed her explaining that I wanted a reef shelf/base rock that I could prop up and grow algae on and have the shrimp hang upside down at the bottom- she emailed me photos and measurements and we found perfect rocks for cheap as chips! Next I harvested every algae type from 4 other tanks and stirred it into the water. 6 weeks later, I had lovely algae cover over the large rock. The corals in the photo are genuine coral skeletons. I use Sulawesi 8.5 due to improved formulation, and now I am a sucker for boiling the salt solution mix on the stove for an hour when mixing my water, but the shrimp are looking very happy. If you have not used SaltyShrimp Sula 8.5 before: that stuff does not dissolve, no matter how much air you pump into a bucket it will be as white and cloudy as skim milk! I boil it on the stove, use 3 times the recommended amount, let it stabilize for a week with a heater and ensure that GH is 8 before it goes near the tank. The water is then crystal clear and the sediment has sunk to the bottom of the bucket. The shrimp photo below are of Bonnie and Clyde. They went hiding when I took the insulating towels off the tank ( it's freezing in Canberra). The breeder of these beauties is @JPN07- how gorgeous are those blue dots on the body? They get fed every 3 days with Shrimpy Daddy Sinewy cereal. Micro amounts of trace minerals/nutrients and probiotic solution is added every day as well as weekly minerals ( ShrimpyDaddy) and Vivace (ShrimpyDaddy). I will be getting more Cardinals soon so that I can have an actual little colony.

Wow that's a lot of questions there Will! Good ones though. I don't know that there are any hard and fast rules on culling. It can depend on the type of shrimp you are breeding too. With some shrimp you know almost straight away if they are keepers or not but in some groups it pays to wait until they are a bit more mature - I have put many Neos into my cull tank only to find they have matured into very nice shrimp. What do I do with culls -first if you are going to feed culls to fish please make sure the fish are big enough to quickly dispose of the shrimp. Small fish will take pieces out of shrimp but may not be able to quickly kill them. I have not so far resorted to feeding mine to fish but it's part of nature and big fish will quickly chase and eat shrimp. I do have a cull tank for my Taitibees as they can grow into or out of a pattern so if I don't want to use them initially I can at least keep an eye on them. I give many of these away and sell others off cheaply. my CRS I keep until about 3 months now as by then you can see if their colours are good and if there is full coverage of the colour without clear areas or muddy whites. Culls go for free or very cheaply, so far I have had no deformities so have not had to euthanise any of them. Good colour is more important than pattern so I go for a good S or SS grade but if I find high A grade I would use that. I do let my colony get to about 50 then cull right back to the best shrimp - maybe 10-12 - and start again. I believe it is better to introduce a few really good males into a colony and remove all inferior males . Not because of any sex linked genetics but a few high grade males can breed with many females and that is a quicker way of introducing better genetics into a colony. I know some of our top breeders may only pick 2 or 3 shrimp from each drop of babies to keep up their high grade colonies. i use 24" tanks for breeding purposes. Because I breed a large number of Taitibees I pick patterns and put those patterns into tanks rather than a specific male and female. I have similar patterns in red and black so have a tank for each pattern in each colour. If I find new patterns within those tanks I put the new pattern into a seperate tank - I'm lucky to have 10 breeding tanks plus my cull tank and 2 larger tanks . I can partition my tanks if I get too many projects happening - I have some removable home made partitions that I can put in to give me 2 x 1 foot tanks but rarely do. when I bred Rilis I culled very heavily - but not until the shrimp were about 1 cm. if they had any spots or lines in their clear section or if their coloured sections weren't a good strong red I would cull them. Some females with a few flaws were used to build up numbers but were still culled after 1 or 2 lots of babies.