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Hi All, Its been long posted any image in the forum, so here are some of my CRS/CBS images. Have been bugged badly by shrimp bug and put up multiple tanks. Currently having 7 CRS tank running. One 60*18*18 with all mixed grade. One 24*12*12 with all mixed grade. One 30*18*18 currentlty cycling will house mixed grade. One 30*18*18 housing PRL higher grade. One 30*18*18 housing PBL higher grade. One 30*18*18 hosing starting grade PBL. One 24*12*12 housing medium grade hinomaru and mosura. A mix grade CRS mommy. Clicking the mix grade is a pain, as the tanks are full with green algae and cant clean it as babies feed on it. A starting grade Taiwan PBL A 2 week old kid on powdered food A Mosura Shrimp A Hinomaru Shrimp, as I have very few female of Hinomaru so not culling her. Will see how the babies turn up. The males are good so finger crossed. One more Hinomaru Do share your thoughts, comments Will update this thread periodically.

Very nice! Hope you have success with them. So Paul, how many macro species do you have now? I just read the article! You have 5 species :)

I get blood worms occurring naturally in my pond even in tubs of water that I am presoaking timber for the tank in, the adult midges will lay their eggs in any standing body of water that has organic matter in it. I am pretty sure they are a detritus feeder, and as stated harmless to shrimp and shrimp do love eating them. I used to have a thriving colony of blackworms in my shrimp tank too and when the numbers got too extreme I would remove the lava rock they where living in and give me loaches a treat. The lava rock was also covered in a hair algae so the loaches really had to work to suck out the worms. The only danger I found with the blackworms was if the water got too hot or something else malfunctioned in the tank causing the colony to die suddenly, meant almost the entire tank ecology/ bacteria crashed. If you have other tanks with fish then raising bloodworms, mosquito wrigglers and blackworms at home is cheap easy and a good food for almost all aquatic pets.