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just love the Taitibees you never know what you might get. I'm concentrating on Reds but the others are lovely in their own right. The blacks etc are my culls and the Reds my keepers. I have a large cull tank for the ones I'm not using.

Update for my set up. Set up the air pump made a closed circuit with pvc piping, drilled holes and stuck in some air valves. Working really well but in the future i would probably try make it from irrigation piping. Change the media in the biospon filters and used the power house. Added power house media on top of the ugf. Added soil and water and switched the filters on. The cycle has begun.

Then you have to read this ... RO water removes the unwanted chemicals, metals, bacteria and algae in tapwater. But Fish and shrimp cannot live in such sterile water devoid of salts. You need to remineralise the water by adding back Calcium and Magnesium to a level suitable for the type of fish or shrimp you are keeping. How much you add is helped by the use of a TDS meter. The TDS meter will also help you maintain the correct range for your shrimp. And as TDS rises due to fertilisation or waste build up from the tank inhabitants, it can serve as a reminder for a water change.

I have posted in winter at temps ard 7 degrees and summer ard 34+ degrees. I have not had any complaints about dead shrimp when I used to do it. I didnt use any heat pack or cooling packs but I always added extra shrimp. I just pack my foam boxes full or cotton wool and bubble wrap lol not for any particular reason but I just imagine it insulates the shrimp more. Now I stop selling during the summer peak and wait till the temps are ard 30 and wait till the temp are ard 10+ for winter.

My experience with cold weather shipping: I was not sure if I should ask the breeder to ship them, but when above 5c it was no problem at all he told me. So lets do it. The temperature was around 5 - 8 celcius that period. He packed the shrimp in a double bag with 50% water, in a foam box with the heatpack taped to the side (should not touch the bag with shrimp else they get 'boiled'). Shipping took 2 days. When they arrived the temperature of the water was still 14c. I put them in a room and measured it took about 5 hours till the water became the room temperature of 20c. Then I put the bag in the tank and in about half an hour is became 22c. I took another 2 hours to slowly add water into the bag and them released them in the tank. They survived the first week. After a month I still count 7 out of 10 of them most of the time, but it could be possible they all are alive since it's a 100l tank with a lot of green. So it's possible for sure, shrimp can handle this when they are packed firmly. They other way around (hot temperatures) I have no experience, but I would prefer cold over hot, since a box in the sun is game over in not time I imagine.

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You would get a Tibee. The colour would depend on which is more a dominant gene. It should be from a light red to a pale orange.