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They were so difficult to shoot. Constantly moving. The camera doesn't do this fish justice. The tail section that might look silver in colour in the above pics, is actually refracting more of a blue green colour in real life.

Looking good They may not colour up properly for a couple of weeks after they settle down Enjoy

I am doing an experiment with my cherry shrimp on temperature dependant sex determination and I need a divided tank obviously the tank won’t need to be too big as I am just housing 1 male and 1 female in each section. ideally, I am looking for a rectangular tank divided into 3 sections so that I can breed 3 pairs at once. The sections will need to share water as I only want to use 1 set of equipment. But if they’re sharing water, I am concerned that after breeding, shrimplets will be able to move into each section through the holes which would ruin my experiment. Does anybody know where I can get a divided tank suitable for my experiment that isn’t too costly or anything I could use as an alternative? Thanks

Cornwall based. I think go to my local fish shops and try and find a triple betta tank or something similar. Thanks

If you want to be using a single set of equipment, you'll need to go DIY. I would say make some sort of frame that fits snugly inside the tank, and run really fine netting over the frame, for the dividers? Or possibly just a big sheet of filter sponge that you can cut up. The latter has less water flow though.

There are wild type neos, some red cherry and some dream blues in this tank. I am starting to see some dark and glossy blackish brown shrimplets emerging in this tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I assume that they are reverting to wild type, though I've not had them looking quite like that, but I don't have blues, just the red. If they weren't from an established single type tank it can even happen with all shrimps that are one colour as the parents could be mixed or carrying mixed genes! You are probably best to remove the ones you don't like but if you are already at this stage it will probably happen more often and in larger numbers as tie goes on? As it is a mixed tank anyway, just removing the ones that are turning won't stop the problem as the reds and blues will cross breed anyway? Simon

Yellow should be easy to spot against black if you can get those! Thislink should give you some useful hints on sexing your shrimps, https://skfaquatics.com/forum/forums/topic/14104-telling-male-from-female-shrimp/ Simon

I've got all of these, going to try each of them at different points. I tried a blanched dandelion today, but I may have a problem... my endlers love shrimp food more than their own food!!! They swarm any barley pellets I put in, or algae wafers, or today, the dandelion! Tomorrow I plan to remove all the endlers from the tank, though, so I can use it for the blue stars. Hopefully with only 4 small endlers, the shrimp can get some food.

Nice! I'd just like to recommend that you label them correctly for sale - if they're N or P class endlers then say so, but otherwise make sure that you're clear that they're hybrids. Helps everyone. Congrats though!

I was figuring as much, i had a large spawn today of about 30 endlers, excited for them to grow!

I have blue dreams on a black substrate... big mistake lol. I’d honestly go for fire red cherries if you have them - they pop really nicely on black and green. But the black is a good idea! Another way to tell sexes is by body shape - females have a more round shape, they’re a bit thicker, and sometimes a bit larger too. Males are skinner, and their bellies are much skinnier than the females. Unfortunately my brain is fried and I can’t think of the scientific work for ‘belly’.

I mean the only reason you’ll want to let them age is so that people want to buy them! I’ve never had any interest in my endler fry until the males have started showing colour. So I generally wait a couple months to sell those guys. Heck, I have 100 apistogramma fry growing up in my 100L community tank. I’d love to sell them! But the oldest are only about 2 inches at most, so about 6 months old, and they only sell at around 9 months when they’ve put on some size.