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Thanks Jayc. I have had to close my shrimp room due to pain issues but have kept many of my shrimp. Unfortunately that meant losing my pureline TB genes. I recently added Tiger genes back into the mix so I have many F1/2 Taitbees that are quite plain. Now they are in with the TB I expect there will be some nice surprises in the coming months. I have them in a 200 litre tank so I have a reasonable number of shrimp still. Plus a tank of Yellows from my Tangerine Tigers - I think people are selling them as yellow KK although mine are from pure Tangerine that I have line bred back to yellow and I thought Yellow KK were hybrids. I also have several hundred Taitibees outside in my pond. I breed them tough as we have had weeks of very high temps over 37 to over 40 and they are still thriving with many berried girls. It will be interesting to catch some out later to see what I have. These were mostly plain F 1/2/3 but I have added some not so good reds and blacks with good colour and pattern genetics in them. They have been outside for just over 12 months now and the numbers seem to be climbing so I'm obviously not losing many .

i have had super tiger genes inmy Tibee line since 2013. The original F1 were attractive enough as they were a novelty at the time. When I came to F3/4/5 I had some good results but found that nearly all my giant gene shrimp were late bloomers for breeding. The females got berried but rarely carried their eggs to fruition. By the time they were 18 months old they bred very well for 6 months and gave me some nice babies. Unfortunately just as they were breeding well they died of old age 2-2 1/2 years old. When people came to my house and my shrimp room they were always amazed at the size of some of the shrimp -these were the giant gene shrimp. very notible next to ordinary shrimp. I went on to F10 but by that timre i lost my patterns and the shrimp reverted back to TB, CRS and Tiger phenotypes