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The cube photo isn't visible as per JayC posted but the other photos of the CRS are! All the Taiwan bee have the same requirements so you can put off the decision on what to go for at this stage and just get the tank ready and settled! There are 2 routes really you can go. Pick one type ie Red Ruby and just get ALL that one type and concentrate on the quality of that one type. Or, as I did, mix them all together and just leave them to do their thing and you should then get a vast array of colours and patterns as I did, you can see photos of those in the gallery (I thought but can't see them so attach one below?) - you won't get any boring ones in the way you do when you mix neocaridinas and it is quite exciting when you get a new colour/pattern one appear? Simon

The shrimp is fine. That area is where their stomach, ovary and heart are located.

I do love a mixed TB tank ? Like a bag of lollies. Great pics Simon. In saying that, my personality lends itself to order, so I'd probably prefer to pick one variation and dedicate a tank to that. Now to sneak another tank into the house..

G'day all, I have noticed that some of my Darwin Algae Shrimp and NQ Algae Eater Shrimp in my new 15 gallon tank are displaying an orange colour near the head (I think it is its organs?) I have attached photos. At least 4 out of 7 from what I can tell have the orange colour. I've had the 4 Darwin's for almost a year now and I've never noticed the orange but they were in a small algae covered tank and they were hard to spot and tended to blend in with th green. The 3 NQ Algae Eaters are new as of ~2 weeks ago. In fact I posted a thread in this forum asking for a shrimp ID because one of the NQs didn't look like one. When I first noticed the orange, I thought it looked familiar and now looking back at the pic of the shrimp I shared there, it has the orange colouration! Now I haven't seen any dead or sickly shrimp. They all seem normal and active and molting fine. I have read the Shrimp Diseases and Diagnosis thread but don't see any other symptoms. Just in case however i thought I'd ask, so that I can take early action if need be. I'm pretty sure that apart from that first NQ with the orange colouration, the other shrimp did not have the orange but now they do. So it seems to be spreading unless I didn't notice it before. What are people's thoughts?

Great, I'm glad I was overreacting! ? Thanks

Thanks guys! Did the cube photo reappear? I'm keen to take the plunge into Taiwan Bees. Just deciding what i want to keep, then setup another tank. Any thoughts?

Nice photos! You got skillz!