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Welp I ended up ordering 3 boa juveniles, 3 boa culls, 6 stardust gene males and 2 extreme blue bolt. I really lucked out in that this breeder is super friendly, knowledgeable, experienced, and culls like it's fun. And knows/is local to the USA Vin importer. Pics next week!

Well I move the caridina to the 10 gallon... lost 2 ? but I now have my very 1st berried black crystal.:) unknown father....caridina seems bit hard to see the eggs especially this one.... she’s berried but I don’t think it’s a big batch and her shell is solid white. The black eggs barely show. I hope she doesn’t lose them but I probably won’t be able to noticed if she does. She’s not a high quality crystal but I don’t thinks she low either. She’s more white then black. Pretty little gal. Solid colour even the little black she does have is dark and solid. The other black crystal is definitely lower quality then the berried one. The black is faded and it has equal amount black and white. If I was breeding a chain of black crystals it definitely be culled. my hunch is one of the raccoon tigers might be the daddy....but could be wrong. I didn’t catch them in the act ?I also have 2 red crystals. 1 Black solid one with tiny white lines that I’m unsure what to call.panda? 2 red crystals and 2 Orangeywhite ones which big al pet store calls red tibees but I have no idea what they are just that they are nothing we usually have here in Canada...don’t think shrimp fever in Toronto has them ...one definitely a female. I’m hoping she gets berried. This tank be called surprise me tank. My province in Canada now in a 6 week lockdown and pet stores be close so I’m tad worried about water changes... but the 10 gallon definitely not over stocked so it should be ok.

Thats as good of a starting point as any. I have carefully measured Ca:Mg ratio to match 4:1 in that recipe. Use that recipe ratio and test the mix to see what you get.

Thanks, I'm sure going to be happy to get the jungle out of there though. Sometimes I go days without seeing some shrimp. When I moved them I discovered a mesh of moss I hadn't seen and was being overgrown, I suspect there are more.

Very nice, I like the tank layout and the shrimp are beautiful! Simon

Thanks! I hope to improve them. This breeder says he gets 1 good one out of 10. I'm an optimist so that seems alright. Hopefully the metallic will transfer.

Wow nice shrimp.

Ok ok ok. Disclaimer, shrimp are the most highly addictive substance known to man. Got the nanancies and the plants and both are cuter than buttons! Making progress cycling the new filters but not quite there. A few more days and I can get this plant infestation out of this tank. Nice blue genes to compliment mine on these 2. Solidarity, or through the looking glass? Does the nanancy stay true to his brother or join with his new blue brethren? Lol. Some classic blacks. One or two poor patterns but over all, nice bold healthy shrimp. The tank after a rework. Moss mountain in the back left and java fern? crypt? jungle on the right. The new darling plants! Clockwise from the left; 3 Eriocaulon vietnam, 1 Red Downoi, 3 (5!) Syngonanthus uapes, 1 Blood Vomit, and 1 red Xyris sp. I'm super pleased with these and could see making a repeat order to build my stock as some of these are pretty slow growing. An update on the blue on black shrimp. As they age we see the blue zebra lines were the result of a metallic blue back stripe and the zebra stripes become white. Still a showstopper I think. And it appears someone beat me to blue zebras: https://www.vinshrimp.com/products/oe-blue-zebra-young-3-pcs I'm going to see if I can't get some of those. Anybody use Band? It's like an obscure chat room ebay. Fricking amazing sellers group on there for the USA. Tonight I placed bids on some gene shrimp: 3 boa shrimp and 6 good stardust males that are both heavy in Vin/Starfish genes If I can get into both these lines of shrimp I'll chill the F out and just work on developing my lines and crosses. And avert sure and impending spousicide. I told her killing the shrimp after killing me would just be spiteful, cruel and foolish. ? Ok, see ya later.