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Hi Crabby At the moment I only have Australian Bass Macquaria novemaculeata but my mate and I are looking for a few of the local small native fishes like the Rainbow fish, Blue Eye etc over the next few months I'm more interested in the shrimp, last season I collected a few Macrobrachium rosenburgii but realised my bass were sucking the limbs off them (they were in a screened off area within the bass enclosure). Lesson learned, I now have 2 new holding systems with a 3rd being re commissioned for brackish species

Cool! Welcome to the forum. Are you a fish keeper as well, or just shrimp? Crabby

Hi I'm new to shrimp keeping having just collected some lovely Riffle Shrimp and a few Ghost Shrimp 20 odd years ago I mucked around with yabbies Cherax destructor, Euastacus spinifer and what I thought was Macrobrachium australiensis but now suspect they were Paratya australiensis I have more space and time now to delve into this amazing hobby further

Guys I have a little competition going where you can win a pair of genuine Blue Star Endlers These little fish are ideal tank mates for shrimp as they will not harm the shrimp in any way, be some of the few people to have a pair of these wonderful little fish ,Have a look and have a go Cheers Wayne

Thanks for the kind words! The mosquito rasbora (Boraras Brigittae) are brave and fun to watch, it is the killifish that got frightened, he came out of hiding very briefly today so maybe he will recover with a bit more time? I feel very uninspired though with that tank, it never did well from when I restarted it and the plants aren't doing as well as the other tanks that I used JBL substrate in. I am charging up the camera to take a photo! It just looks drab and not healthy! The new shrimp all went well into the tank and were looking very happy the first day, and the fish weren't interested in them, next day no sign of even one of the new shrimp, but no dead bodies or anything either, I thought maybe they were hiding (that is still possibe?) but I haven't seen any since. I did see a large red bolt (?) at the weekend which I didn't know was in the tank as I thought they had died out in our week of 30+ heat in August? The fish are doing well so I will just leave it as a fish tank I think? I can't believe the killifish may have ate all of the new shrimps as there were 15 one day and 0 the next and I wouldn't think he could eat that many mid size shrimp? I don't think the rasboras could have eaten the shrimp as the shrimp were nearly as big as them? I wanted dwarf spotted rasboras as well for this tank and may do that still. I ordered 6 each of mosquito and dwarf spotted but they sent 12 mosquito, but it was just as we had lockdown (literally 1 day before it went mad) so I was lucky to get what I did! Simon