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Some updates for this tank: - I added some extra adults to the colony in late June. Also added some moss collected from the natural habitat in June. The new adults have settled in well and the colony is looking great. Perhaps the colony needed higher numbers to encourage breeding? - Newly hatched zebs spotted in late July - today I spotted a newly berried female

My Quarantine tank has gone nuts!! I'm sure you old hands will be chuckling under you breath but for me this is all new and really a bit unexpected. There is some kind of RCS orgie going on in my tank with every female, including the smaller ones, berried as well as shrimpets everywhere. I know they are a beginners shrimp but i haven't even got them into a dedicated tank yet. Well onto topic and a few photo's. I noticed a larger female acting a bit strange this morning so stopped to watch for a while. She would sit still for a bit and just pick away on her perch for whatever food was there. Then she would arch her back and really start fluffing away at the eggs for about 1 min, then settle down. This was happening every 5 min or so and was only interrupted when another shrimp came within 2cm or so of her. I could see lots of micro shrimpets around her on the glass and sponge so i thought Wow, she is hatching eggs. I grabbed the camera and started to shoot away and was surprised at what i got. I hope i have built up the excitement for you to be thinking i have photo's of eggs hatching. Well actually i dont. Sorry. As it turns out she was moving her eggs from the front of her belly to the back in a re-positioning exercise. Bummer hey. I had adrenaline going through my system thinking i might have photo's of her hatching eggs. All you photographers out there will know how hard it is to set up your camera, flash settings etc with adrenaline in your system and a short time frame to do it. Got a couple of nice shots anyway so here they are. The next series is of her moving an egg. And the last one of a shrimpet on the glass. Not one of the new ones but he is a little older.

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I have finaly gotten some Metabetaeus lohena and they are just settling in! Heres a quick video of them. For those who are not sure, these guys grow to about an inch in size and live along side Opae ula shrimp. They have large (in comparison) pincers and are primarily scavengers.

These guys are still doing great! im having to get some nerite snails for their tank because they dont eat the algae that grows on the tank like the Opae ula and its starting to take over a little!

Awesome work so far mate. Will be great to get a few generations happening.

Haha, me too and it also does nothing that's why I now use the cloth above and it leaves the glass crystal clear. Mines definitely dry and I'm pretty sure it's not scented etc.

I had some mishaps with their breeder box while I was moving and most of them mixed in my randoms and culls so I have to start from scratch -_- I do still have a couple that look kinda promising - blue tinted and red tinted in a kind of groovy way. But I'm not sure what they'll be like as adults. The original plan was to cross back with snowballs several times over. I'll see if I can try again!

In my 4', I have a glass split in the middle of the tank so my culls are on the LHS. Any that meet my criteria get moved to the RHS. If a cull appears on the RHS, off to the LHS they go. With my Bloody Mary I have 2 physical tanks, one with culls and the other for my selective shrimp. If the shrimp is really bad, not even worthy of keeping as a cull, they get squished and fed back to the population.

Feeding time!