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Noticed lots of activity in the tank over the last two days. Turns out there has been some moults and now there are more berries. Currently berried shrimp = 3 :) Trying out a new food. They like it pretty well.

Haven't paid these guys much attention in the last week. Was bagging up some other shrimp this morning and put in some Shrimp Crack for a nibble! Now they know where the food goes they were out quick smart! Then I noticed a surprise to make my Monday a great day!! As Ben has mentioned in his thread, it may be something to do with having a few more added to the colony, as this is the first time for berries in this tank! And she is one of my original lot. ? Image overload, but as you can image, I am a little stoked!! I did also give them a water change yesterday too. Unsure if that assisted!

Hello, I'd like to show You my first Taiwan Bee tank, that is only 1 month old. One lady already got eggs :). I how that sone I'll get more youngsters

Showing off my extreme KKs. Just moved them into a new tank for them.

Thanks :) Hello, Not really a hardcore shrimpkeeper (only got a few cherries) but I hope to expand the collection =P Looking forward to learning heaps about shrimp from everybody here Cheers

So much win in your posts @fishmosy I lost my zebs but I'm so glad that yours are doing well and clustering around the food bowl is something I never saw with mine. You're onto a winner. Bravo!

Well done Jamie. Perhaps there is something in having some new shrimp in the tank to trigger breeding.

Looking forward to more videos @Shrimp Farm love the choice of music on the last one, well done!

It's good to get them to have variety -it's not so good if your shrimp are hooked on one food as if that becomes unavailable they will go hungry for a little while. Mine were given Nasturtium leaves again for the first time this year and swarmed over them- they were gone overnight too.

Hello from beautiful Ridgeway Ontario Canada, on the shore of Lake Erie, one of Canada's Great Lakes. The Great Lakes are also known as Canada 's South Coast, except by anyone who lives on one of our two actual coasts! After many years in the salt water reef hobby where I became very seriously addicted and suffered from the "One More Tank Syndrome" (MTS) disease, I am tempting my addictive nature once again, (but I truly believe that I am in control this tjme) with fresh water. I have my fingers crossed because............. here I go again ;-) So, my name is Dave and here is my story about falling off the wagon....... I am enthralled by aquariums and many evenings my wife (Tracy) just says "goodnight" and heads upstairs. Of course my ears are not working because all of my sensory perceptions are consentrated on looking through my magnifying glass. I no longer get cold shoulder sandwiches for lunch anymore. A good thing! December /15 I stopped at an LFS and picked up an inoccent little 20 Long. Now what harm can that do? As well an Aqua Clear AC110 hob filter, Current USA freshwater planted LED light and 40 lbs of Seachem Flourite Dark substrate followed me home. This will be my only tank and a planted one at that. A few plants, some dwarf fish and some shrimp. A very non-threatening excercise in restraint and enough to fit the "aquatic life in my living room" fix. One very serious problem occurred in my 20L and that was my Red Cherry Shrimp were disappearing without a trace. 38 shrimp and many of them berried just vanished. Hmm, Pangio Loaches are supposed to be shrimp safe! But a Planaria Worm was also discovered and I read where they will take shrimp. So I starve the tank, bait the diy flatworm trap and catch nothing but ditrius worms. The threat of hostiles threatening my shrimp is still present and a rescue mission was mounted. This is where the wagon lurched out from under me on Aug. 06/16 and another tank, light, substrate, sponge filter and other little items followed me home. But I can stop at two tanks......... no problem. A sweet looking 2.5 gallon plexi with a real clean caulking job is being used for now as the water box. A 10 inch (25.4 cm) Finnex 6500K with red and blue LED sits on the top. 5 lbs (2.5268 kg) of Carib Sea Tahitian Black sand for substrate, but only half the bag was used to keep the substrate areas at an inch (2.54 cm) or less, one piece of Malaysian drift wood because I liked how it looks, a small portion of almost bleached out yellow and mostly dead Vesicularia ferries "weeping moss" crazy glued to the driftwood and one Cladophora aegagropila "Marimo Moss Ball" that was divided into three completes the tank along with self sourced and boiled beach pebbles. The rescue mission netted 14 RCS. The tank was but together without any type of cycle because of the emergency situation. So........... now I am here, and......... now what? The goal to obtain plenty of accurate and tested knowledge for my success and to one day help others is underway! Looking forward to meeting everyone! Dave p.s. Pictures as soon as I figure out how to submit them

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

So, a bit of an update! These shrimp never congregated before for a meal prior to introducing this special food! Which they have had twice now. I decided to try a different food today, soy hulls, which they have turned their nose up to previously many times. I placed it in same corner and after twenty minutes, they were out having a feast. Amazing how habits can change in such a short space of time. Lol

Zebras don't need 0GH and KH @layfishies, but they certainly seem to prefer soft water. They seem to become less active and happy when the TDS reaches about 40ppm, so very very low. Occasionally they seem to do fine at higher levels but I don't recommend that. @NoGi, they are certainly happier at 20 than 25 degrees C, but certainly aren't dying off at 25. What this species won't tolerate is a build up of dissolved organics, which is why people always lose them when their maintenance regime slips a bit, as it can do. Another issue is that much like the Sula species, they are very keen on grazing biofilm and not so interested in prepared foods - at least they take some acclimating to it. That's why @newbreed's refernce to the food they're eating is significant.

pretty sure its still F1 (only one generation from wild), and the majority of the colony is still the wild caught originals. The F1s are nearly big enough to breed so I imagine there will be some F2 in the next six months or so. Its getting there, the tank is stable and I'm concentrating on getting some more berried females.

Well done! Really great. Mine are persisting but not breeding so I'm jealous!

Update for this tank: I entered the tank in the AGA aquascaping competition, biotope category in September. The results have just been released. I finished with a top ten position. http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2015/show457.html I'll upload some more pictures and a full write-up on how I'm keeping this tank shortly.