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G'day, I now have Red Cherry Shrimps that are breeding and doing well. I have recently purchased some Blues. I hope that they will breed soon. I have seen Yellows advertised in the Gold Coast where my daughter live. As a matter of interest. The Gold Coast is over a five hour drive from Maryborough. If I asked my daughter to purchase some shrimp on the day she is leaving to visit me. Would they survive the journey? What would I need to do? Also I have seen Yellows advertised in Sydney. I have a friend that lives in Sydney. I see that in the U K that you can post Shrimps. A Parcel from Sydney would take three days by post. Would I be able to do that? Cheers Perry

I've just received my Hailea HC130A today, I can confirm the HC130a does have a PC type ball bearing fan shown below. I have also put a external temperature probe, only took less than a minute to do, it is connected with a SM2.54 connector which is readly available, the probe house the male side of the socket. there are two notch at the front bottom of the chiller that you can lead the probe cable out of the chiller, so no drilling of any sort needs to be done. My unit was a little scratched at one side and near the panel, the scratch was expected for product coming from china, the radiator fins at some part was a little pushed in and bent, but I put then right so all is good. The chiller came with 4 hose connector, but are all same size, I think it should come with two size, but i'm alright with that. I haven't full tested it yet as the chiller was sent to my work place, apparently the water pump I had at work was too weak to move the water, so I have to test it at home, the probe is working fine. Thanks JayC and sdlTBfanUK for all your advice.

G'day jayc, Thank you so much for the very useful information. I looks like I will be able to purchase some Yellow Shrimps soon. Much appreciated. Cheers Perry

Update. Manual removal has stopped, seems to be under control. Light has been lowered on day cycle to try to combat over lighting. Baby shrimp are showing up more frequently now as I gander around the tank . I’ve received the lid kit and will be assembling that and doing a water change tonight. In other news, I’ve ordered some Black and red crystals to bolster population of reds, and add some blacks. The fish are for a friend’s tank( we like to combine orders to save a few dollars). He offered me half of the emeralds, but I think I’ll steer clear anyway, I’m sure they would eat baby shrimps, even as small as they are. Maybe I’ll take him up on the offer once my colony is booming, as he’s putting them in a designated breeding tank.

Ok so Tds meter arrived today reading 167, a little low but ok I think? Water filter from zero water and GH/KH+ on its way. Hopefully I am on the right path now. Thank you everyone for your help. Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Hope it all works as you want it too so you can get everything settled with the tanks at last so that you can build your collection! Simon

@Perry, the 5 hour drive time from GC to Maryborough is absolutely doable. Even the 12hr+ from Syd to Maryborough is doable. This is what I would do ... instructions you want to pass onto to whomever is driving it up for you (your daughter or friend). - Buy the shrimps on the day of travel. Preferably in the morning. - Ask the shopkeeper to pack it into a larger than normal bag with more water. They would usually give you a small bag since shrimp are small. But we want to have more water in the bag for the long journey. More water means slower ammonia build up in the bag, and more dissolved oxygen. - put it into an Esky or equivalent styrofoam container. -> to keep the heat out. We are heading into summer, and temps can get quite high in cars. QLD is probably already hot, so all the more to transport them in an esky/foam container. - Place a bottle of frozen water (600ml or so) in with the esky or foam container. Just make sure it doesn't roll around in there too much and smashes up the bag of shrimp. This bottle of frozen water will keep the interior of the esky cool enough for the shrimp during the journey. You can be creative with how you secure the bottle from squashing the bag of shrimps here. Rolled up towel, foam, bubble wrap ... - drive safely to destination. That's it really.

Amano shrimps are more of a hardly shrimp compare to red shrimps or CRS, but it's normal to lose shrimps, I've spent lots of money on equipment and shrimps, and i'm still learning, all I have are 1 amano shrimps and 4 red pinto galaxy and some Thailand micro crabs, who know how many shrimps I've lost, probably lost count.