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I have added another macro to my collection Dave from Aquagreen managed to get some of the Spinipes for me. These are one of the bigger members of the family and can grow to an overall length of 45cm, they are a larval breeder so will be difficult to breed in the aquarium if I can even manage to keep a pair alive long enough to breed, they by account are very aggressive to all other tank inhabitants. it will be interesting to watch them grow they are currently around 2cm so very small they appear to have almost doubled in size in the week I have had them.

Just a quick update, quite a few shrimplets are now swimming around varying greatly in colour. Amongst the blacks, browns and yet to colour up shrimp there appears to be a couple of baby blue shrimp, so far they have grown and not turned into blacks so i am hopeful they will stay blue... Hopefully if they stay this way i will be able to start line breeding them. The chocolate shrimps in this line are pretty nice so i plan to keep those separate and have a line of those going, thanks a lot for such fantastic shrimp @revolutionhope . I still need to get a macro adaptor for my phone, but when i do i will make sure to post some pictures.

I have 3 different magnet scrapers and find i get the skip if i use the stronger one on the thinner glass tanks. The downside to using a weaker magnet has been mentioned. You need more passes to remove the stubborn algae.

I don't know if it's just me but I can't see a picture of shrimp only the prize pack. It may be why you don't have many entries?

Magnetic ones are ok to use, I find you need to go over the glass multiple times to get stubborn algae. This one I linked with a blade is pretty much a one pass cleaner. No going back and forth, creating massive disturbances in the tank. I can run a siphon hose behind the blade as I clean the glass and suck out the loosened algae, and perform a water change at the same time.