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Hi @Martib, most black lines carry Reds - known as Bloody Mary shrimp- and also blue - known as Blue Diamond. I have found nearly all my blacks even when put to only the blackest mate have still given a small proportion of blues and Reds. I did get the blacks to breed fairly true for several generations but then still started seeing a few blues and Reds show up. I have seen adverts for blacks that breed true but most lines seem to have a few other colours show up. The blues and Reds from black are also hard to get to breed 100% true. Most other colour Neos do breed true but not these it seems - I wouldn't argue with anyone saying theirs breed true but over the course of 4-5 years mine never did .

Interested to see how you go. My first ever try at breeding Bettas was a huge success after a couple of false starts. Ended up with about 300 fry from the pair - we stopped counting after 270 - I know now it's best to cull some when the numbers are so big but at the time it was super exciting and I also didn't know there were so many babies and being my first attempt I didn't expect them to survive ! Good luck .

Back in 2014 I showed some pictures of my quite large CRS colony. At that time I was breeding for numbers just to fill a very large tank so the quality of the shrimp wasn't very important to me. Last year I decided to take it in hand to improve the quality and weed out all. The low grade shrimp. I ended with a much smaller colony so put them into 70 litre breeding tanks, added a couple of mid - high grade males and left them to it. Along the way I culled any low grade males and eventually low grade females . I'm happy to say I once again have a thriving colony of about 150-200 shrimp of mid to mid/high grade shrimp. Patterns initially were B & A with a few S and now they are basically S , SS and a few SSS . There is still a lot of room for improvement and I will be doing another big cull soon . I can see a few shrimp still have tiny clear sections but on the whole they are looking much better. I'm getting colour on the legs now too which is good. Hopefully in another year I might have more high grade shrimp

He's in a tank with my female now, she jumped over the seperater and said hello yesterday haha. so far they are getting along well, but I don't leave them alone together too long.

So envious Ineke! you are doing exactly what i had hoped to do! I must say i think i accomplished alot over 3 years with them living in the country. You should be proud :) Has been a pleasure sharing your shrimp keeping journey with you

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Nice Betta. Good to start seeing some fish photos here too.

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