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I haven't fed my shrimp cucumber for a very long time . Do you think they like it?

Just thought I would write up my journey with my CRS. I bought these guys July last year (from Fishmosy) and had them in with my TB for seven months without any berries, super frustrating. After a reset on one of my three foot tanks, I moved the CRS in there by their lonesome and the magic started to happen. The quality of these isn't the best but also not the worst. I recently was very lucky to be a recipient of some 'culls' from Gbang. With these boys in the mix I am expecting to see the quality of offspring increase dramatically over the next few generations. The tank they are in has benibachi soil, eheim 2213, chiller, two sponge filters and two Mini Oxydators. I have been adding mineral powder, Bee Max, Genchem beta-G as required. And have just started small additions of Blackwater extract with water changes. I noticed a drop off in breeding a few months ago and realised I had stopped adding IAL. Once these went back in, the juvie survival rate improved, I am of the belief this is a great source of micro bacteria for the tank and an awesome food source for the littlest ones. It has been running with an Aquamedic Twin T5 light for the last five months. Lots of plant growth and biofilm on the back panel, usually see a gang of little shrimp grazing there in the mornings. Unfortunately, some of the plants are being infested with BBA, but I will trim in a couple of weeks to remove this. I have allowed the plants to grow like mad and the CRS seem to really enjoy their forest. I feed a mixture of Benibachi Kale, Beni Ambitious, Boss Snow, Boss Crack and occasionally some frozen Kale (prepared as in Bluebolts thread). For baby feeds I have followed Squiggs example and used powdered Spirulina, Barley Powder, powdered bee pollen, mixed with water and syringed to different corners of the tank. Now have also used Borneo Wild Bebi and the little ones loved that too!

Think I'll need a gravity fed system, using RO water at this stage. Cape Town is not in a great state with the drought we having. Sent from my VKY-L29 using Tapatalk

They are orange cherry shrimp. They have doubled in size and I’ve counted 14!

Ohhh I see okay! I shall be patient then [emoji23] Oh shucks so sorry to hear about your back [emoji27] hope you recover quickly so you can get back to shrimping [emoji5] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi edishrimp, I had a new setup so it took a while for them to settle in. About a month or so after adding them did I see them berried, Only added dennerle foods, artemia, mineral, snow pops and occasionally some stinging nettles. I just had a panda drop her eggs due to high TDS. Couldn't do a water change as I hurt my back. Thank you for your comments Sent from my VKY-L29 using Tapatalk

Have you been feeding them a source of protein? Like I told Nate above, get them some frozen blood worms (every other feed). The whole mating process takes a lot of energy on the shrimps and they need more than the normal veg based diet.

Ok all. Got half a dozen CRS That I've got in my office tank. And they have been living happily for a while whilenow.it's hard to see if they are getting berried. But so far no fry. Water parameters are good. I'll do a test tomorrow and post the results Doing regular water changes etc. Mainly looking for ideas of little things to check to see if I can get love flowing Photos just for the hell of it

Wow! Those shrimp looks great Nate! How long did yours take to start becoming berried? I've had my CRS for close to 3 weeks now and I haven't seen any berried mums yet ? and I'm sure that most of them are at a mature breeding age by now

The other odd ball out of the mix

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

So we started keeping shrimp at the beginning of the summer and are doing well with our Caridinas and I just got stuff to take some pictures of them. Really good information on this board (sorry that we are more the lurker peeps then super active) as well as some great help from some locals who are now our friends really helped with our success! We are still sorting out issues with our neo's but now that we found our phosphate issue (over 20ppm in the tanks!) we should have those colonies kicking pretty darn soon. Let me know what you think and any tips on photographing the shrimp would be appreciated!

I don't know this lucky guy from Singapore, I found this picture from his purple Neo on the FB page of all things shrimp and thought I should share with you, for the fun : https://www.facebook.com/donZy.brandoN/videos/10153181100704355/

@ineke, 'fancy tibee' is too confusing for a Tibee x Mischling cross, cause it could mean a colour variation of a Tibee. Like a "Fancy Pinto" - which is a pattern variation of the pinto.

Author's prerogative ;p

I think it should be Tibling