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Hey guys, Here are some pics of some shrimp from the south of New Caledonia. The HC 'Cuba' give you an idea of their size. Thank you @Matuva for the plants ;-)

It's bugging me that I don't know what these are.. They came in a very mixed batch of shrimp that included everything from CRS/CBS to full Taiwan Bees. They look like they could have been Golden Bees... except that they're very peach. I've not actually seen any confirmed Golden Bees in person, so they well could actually BE GB's. Any ideas or confirmation from GB owners? Sorry about the fuzziness. I stuck the post here because they sorta look the most like my (probably) Redbolts.

Re the stink...it depends on the medium used and the temperature you keep them at but by about the 6-7 week mark they usually are on the nose and best kept somewhere your not going to spill them and at this stage best to divvy them up into fresh cultures. The meal worms you can buy here in most good pet shops but I cant imagine feeding them to bettas,even giant bettas would struggle to eat something this tough. I am hoping for something soft and small... like a 2mm witchety grub that would be sievable and small enough for small mouths. Ant lavae are a great size but a butt pain to collect. Another great standby of no effort is the good old mozzy lavae,just make sure ya feed them at wriggler stage before they pupate into the "swimming comas" stage and none should end up hatching and coming back to bite ya on the bum :-) . Once ya know what to look for it is possible to actually harvest the mozzy egg rafts and put them in the new fry tank to hatch and be scoffed. The rafts are about 1/2 the size of a match head and consist of a bunch of eggs all standing on end,black/grey coloured and ya can just lift them from the water surface on ya finger tip and then dip said finger into fry tank to float them off. I like the fact that the female mozzy has to have eaten some of my neighbour to be fertile,so in a roundabout way I am feeding my fish with my neighbours :-)

Looks really good i cant wait to see it grown in!

First thing you need to know about these products is that these are designed for use with what I call a 'mid tech aquarium'. If you have plants that require medium to high light, require fertiliser but not necessarily CO2, then these may be good for you. My tank is set up this way, so I can't comment for lower or higher tech tanks. I have been using these fertilisers from Aquagreen for the past six months or so with plants including crinums, bucephalandra, java ferns, crypts, bolbitus, amazon swords amongst others. The three fertilisers I use are: Dino Pee (liquid fertiliser) Dino Spit (glutaldehyde) Dino Dung (fertiliser tablets) As per instruction on the bottle, For a six foot tank, I dose 0.5mL of Dino Pee daily, 1.0mL Dino Spit every second day (and spot dose if required) and use the fertiliser tablets in the soil below the (potted) plants every few months. Given these dosage rates, the 500mL bottles will last a long time! Also note the glutaldehyde in the Dino Spit is very concentrate, far more so than other commercial products (e.g. Florish Excel which I have used in the past), and so far cheaper in comparison. I have had no problems with algae since switching from other commercial premix fertiliser products, which I occasionally had problems with BBA. I only have to scrape a little bit of green spot from the glass every couple of weeks, which I (and others) consider to be a good sign in planted tanks. I keep riffle shrimp, rainbowfish, an SAE and glassfish in this tank and haven't had any negative reactions from them even when experimentally doubling the reccomended dose of Dino Spit when spot dosing newly introduced plants. Given I paid approx $50 for these three products I am very happy and consider these great value for money. I'd highly reccommend these to everybody.

Lol Love It Dave

The Dinosaur Dung does contain iron, it is from the blood and bone fertilier blended into the clay. There would also be some iron in the clay but without expensive analysis it would be hard to say how much. Thanks for the nice appraisal Fishmosey. It is hard to get the little dinosaurs to crap enough, we need more dinosaurs. Attached is a photo of a dinosaur working. Cheers Dave

Don't know mate. I'd assume there would be some but its only a guess.

Thanks for the information write up.... Do they increase TDS ?