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Thankyou! Still progressing slowly it will be late in the year by the time everything is up and running and ready for shrimps to move in. Thought I might randomly share some shrimp porn from the last few days random pics. Also pictured is a friendly bluetongue that got trapped in my pond I had to rescue just recently. :-) natives. [emoji173][emoji111][emoji445] will

As I only bred mine once - I got scared off with the amount of time it took to look after so many fish- I can't really say I'm very experienced however I did quite a bit of research and it was suggested that a piece of bubble wrap be put in the tank for the boy to build his nest under. Previously his nest kept breaking apart , once the bubble wrap was floating in a corner he built a much more stable nest. I used a bare bottomed tank and initially has IAL in there but as it broke down it left a lot of mulm on the floor and made it harder to clean any excess food out. I took the male out day 3 . I had a supply of vinegar eels for the first few days after hatching . As soon as I saw the fry hatching I commenced breeding brine shrimp so that I had a ready supply of newly hatched brine shrimp for day 3. I kept setting up new brine shrimp hatcheries everyday and fed the eels and BBS for a few days then slowly stopped the eels and increased the BBS. As there were so many fry I also introduced powdered fry food about day 7 I think it was but I was still worried that might not be enough so I bought some freeze dried black worms in cubes and stuck them on the glass in various areas around the tank to allow all the fry a chance to get to them. They demolished it in a very short time . I bought some live worms - again black worms - and chopped them up with a razor blade - and feed them in small amounts the fry loved them but the BBS seemed to be the favourite - I started feeding the older brine shrimp too - it was great to see the fry chasing the brine shrimp. as I was home I was able to feed them at least 4 times a day. Apparently you need to be careful as the fry can get very hungry and gorge on food if they aren't fed often and their little tummies don't do well. You can see the tummies filling up as they catch their food. It was easy to see if they were getting enough as some babies looked empty so I would squirt the brine shrimp around the tank and especially close to the smaller fry. The size difference was quite noticeable so putting the food near to the smaller fry gave them a chance to eat before the big guys came and took the bulk of the food. I will say it is better to buy good quality brine shrimp eggs - they hatch much better than some of the cheaper ones. I also tried ocean nutrition pre hatched brine shrimp - they are not alive but they are in a suspension - they are a reasonable standby for the times a batch of eggs don't hatch well but the live brine shrimp are definitely eaten better by the fry. I think the movement of the live brine shrimp keeps the fry interested .

Ok i see a language problem here. For the best health of the shrimp they should be kept in the lower range of temp. The females will become "saddled" when they are sexually mature and healthy enough to carry eggs. Being saddled means they will have the eggs inside their body and if the shell is slightly transparent you will be able to see them looking like a horses saddle (on the inside of the shrimp). When the females are ready they will mate with a male shrimp. This happens only once and only when the female is ready. Once that happens the female will lay the eggs, transfer the fertilized eggs to the outside of her body, and carry them under her tail section. This is called "Berried". There will be no more breeding until the eggs have hatched and the female is saddled again. RCS breed easily and you will find that the population will increase faster than you can cope with once they have settled into your tanks. 1 female can give birth to between 20 and 200 babies, 3-4 times a year and the babies will become mature enough to breed in about 4 months. Not all of the shrimpets will be of a high quality so some will have to be removed from the tank. This is called culling. The cull shrimp should not be sold on as they are of a lower quality. If you leave a low quality shrimp in the tank then it will breed with the others and lower the quality of the next generation and will give you even more shrimp to cull. Even leaving 1 low quality male in the tank can cause you to have hundreds of low quality shrimpets hatched in the next generation because it can breed with many females. Not what you want. Keep the shrimp healthy and let the breeding happen at a normal rate. Remove the lower quality shrimp before they are sexually mature so your tank stays of a high quality and then sell what extras you have.

My spawn tank ? The night light. The day light. My girl.

rGenerally your Panda is easy to distinguish from your CBS - which is now a Mischling and should not be put into pure CBS colony- the Panda will have a black face -CBS have a white or dark face not pure black- the colour Of your Panda will be much crisper - deep solid black crisp white.The first pictures Panda and Shadow panda note the black faces and legs plus general colour, next pictures are CBS.

It's bugging me that I don't know what these are.. They came in a very mixed batch of shrimp that included everything from CRS/CBS to full Taiwan Bees. They look like they could have been Golden Bees... except that they're very peach. I've not actually seen any confirmed Golden Bees in person, so they well could actually BE GB's. Any ideas or confirmation from GB owners? Sorry about the fuzziness. I stuck the post here because they sorta look the most like my (probably) Redbolts.

The light grows moss very well for me. I think it's worth it. Moss will grow quicker, healthier which translates to extra surface area and better filtration

This is my version .

I've had these guys for 2 and a half weeks now and they're doing great. Thought i'd show them off and share some photos :) Love them, I want morrrreeeeee!

Here you go lachie, an (almost) full tank shot Squiggle, that video wont work on my mobile, bummer!

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