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Done @NoGi, I should win some sort of prize for this ^_^

Two winters straight I am having this issue - basically the shrimp breed in the summer but when winters comes no berried at all among Taiwan Bees. In my mischlings I have berried shrimp all the time and I even tried putting some of the TB into the mischling tank to see if this will help, but no. Do you have any ideas what can be the cause of this, and what can be done to encourage the shrimp to breed?

Just an update. After the F1 shrimplets had grown up. I culled the males and kept 3 females. From those females, I then crossed back to a RB. Heres the female berried. After releasing the eggs, I discovered I may have created some Blue Steels. Heres the pic of the baby. And now here it is at juvie age. Only found 2 of them and hoping for them to be a pair. Fingers crossed. :D Also...I'm hoping this one could be a red steel. Might need to work on it but it looks promising.

Hi Zoidburg. Thanks for the advice. NT LABS Anti Fluke and Wormer works great at killing Hydra. No PLanaria killed off everything you posted. These were 2 of the store bought treatments that I used. My tap water is so soft that the water company treat it to elevate the pH to pH6.4 ish, this wears off over a few days and my water is basically rain water at pH5.65, KH0 GH0. I use my basic plant/ gardening fertilisers to elevate to 3GH and just under 2KH. I have 200-400 RCS in a 110L Juwel Rekord and I trade/sell them to a couple of local fish shops 50 at a time. I've been collecting data/water parameters from shrimp keeping forum members and breeders in the UK and the results so far are very interesting, the only constant is CONSTANT water parameters. Cheers Andrew. Have another shrimp pic Cheers jayc

My cardinals have bred. Pretty chuffed as I thought it would take them a bit longer. The adults are highly cryptic, hopefully these new bubs will be less inclined to hide away.

Cherry shrimp really do best with 6-8 GH at least. No Planaria could have killed off planaria, nematodes, detritus worms and scutariella (what most people probably call vorticella). Should kill vorticella, too. Cyclops are harder to get rid of... hopefully, the CPD's ate all, but I wouldn't be surprised if some are just hiding. For future plants, you may want to consider an alum dip or bath. Alum makes the water acidic and I've heard of people using a bath for 3 days to kill off snail eggs. (not sure how well sensitive plants do with this) Some people recommend Potassium Permanganate to remove pests, however, in my experience, it doesn't work. I did two PP dips on some plants within 24 hours. The second dip was so strong that it took *days* for the solution to turn clear. Snails never died... Some people do bleach dips, although this can kill sensitive plants. There's also Hydrogen Peroxide dips and CO2 overdose. Carbonated water could work for the latter. So far, I've only dealt with nematodes, cyclops, detritus worms, small ramshorn snails, limpets and scutariella. A dog dewormer (Fenbendazole) took care of the scutariella. Great pictures of your tank and shrimp!

Some of my steel blue, will start a specific tank next year for them

Cardinals are lovely, I wish I could have some but I think I'll need to stick with the "easy" shrimp for now. They look so much like the marine Blood Red Fire Shrimp, I wonder if some where along the line the fresh water Cardinals are descendents of the Blood Red Fires.

When i started my line of tangtai i crossed females tt with males twb as my end goal was to breed backline and fishbones, it is a long process but really enjoyable especially when you start getting results, just make sure to set aside a few tanks for that to avoid inbreeding.