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I put a new LED Plant Glo light on my native tank and decided to take some pictures of the native shrimp under it. The result I think is quite impressive and really seems to show up their colouration and delicate patterning. The spotted blue eyes also look AMAZING and are showing more yellow on their bodies. Sadly for now I don't have any decent pictures of them since as soon as they see movement or the camera trying to zoom in on them they hightail it back into the depths of the weed jungle. So for now heres some of the shrimp Not sure if this girl is a Blackmore river Pretty sure this is a Blackmore River Shrimp Could be a young DAS or another Blackmore Sorry for the blurr but it really was the golden colour and wouldn't sit still very long No idea Possibly Blackmore This I know is Chameleon with two DAS The other solid back striped chameleons wouldn't play ball and stayed in the dark recesses of the log

many people have assumed these guys can be kept like exotics. Unfortunately they cant. Its a steep learning curve - my current zeb tank is 'Mark II' afterall. Interested to know what parasites the zebs had/have?

How's it going everyone? I have been breeding red cherries and parataya australensis for a year or so now along with other native inverts. And I've recently moved into fancier shrimp. My other main focus is all things plants and planted tanks. Great to find a shrimp site with such knowledgable folks, Thanks @fishmosy for the help with my zebs from day 1. :) basically saved my whole colony of Caridina Zebra, and just straight up Kudos for your trip report on them. I have set up a few tanks (originally for the zebs) that I'm looking to breed some CRS and other beautiful more high end shrimp. I also have a Pari of Amazon live bearers with some fry too, and various other planted tanks and fish. Thanks for having me.

Yeah they did look milky in the few days before switching to RO, lost another few Aswell, so started with 25(heaps were riddled with parasites- so probably wild caught ?) Now I have like 15, but they are looking so much healthier today. But after reading your info and realising my water chemistry was way wack for them anyway so not sure how much being "wild caught" had to do with them dying. today my tds is 17ppm, RO mixed with a small amount of my raintank water to get that. Back in the 40L with a thin layer of inert Quartz and one old soaked feijoa leaf for food. the last 2 I noticed dead was this morning, but they seem to be stabilising, touch wood (now that I've said that they will all die haha) thanks once again mate, hopefully you've saved these little guys for me :) PS: A mate that bought 15 at same time as me lost all theirs. And the shop we got them from killed all theirs too. Like dozens. And I would have thought for sure they were both more knowledgable about this stuff then me. Now I'm scared haha I shouldn't have things this sensetive, guess I just got to ride it out now. once again a million thanks mate, you may very well have saved these lil guys.

I've heard that bloody mary shrimp have red colored flesh, but had never seen any photos of that. For that matter, I've also never seen red pleopods! Great shots! I only have cherries right now, but would love to get some bloody mary shrimp eventually!

Careful how and what you feed. If your TDS increases too much, the zebs will get stressed and die off.

Thanks for the extra info. There are/ was a good sized colony of blackworms in the tank and every so often I still see a few blackworms I dislodge when shifting stuff around in the tank. I guess the whiptails are living it up eating any of the worms they happen to find, but thankfully they don't seem to show the slightest bit of interest in the shrimp in the tank. Just a shame they aren't interested in Malaysian Trumpet Snails, because I could feed the whiptails on them indefinantly on that food source. Currently I feed the whiptails, Tetramin tropical fish flakes, algae wafers, catfish wafers, shrimp pellets (sinking catfish pellets) and any defrosted bloodworms that I get for the other fish/ tanks. They would also be getting the odd mosquito wriggler since my tanks are outside in the car shed and have open tops. Every so often when I find bloodworms in any tubs of water in the yard I do add live bloodworms to the tanks too.