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Looks fine to me too. She is heavily berried and that means you will have babies soon. Feed her well. More protein will be good. If you have not tried frozen blood worms, that is the what you should feed when the females are berried. Really should have started feeding more protein when you see a saddle. But better later than never.

Looks fine to me, looks really good actually! Those last photos are great.

Wow that some nice shrimp. I love all of them, especially that Blue Fishbone. Wish we could get them here in Australia as easily ... at a reasonable price. But we can't due to strict quarantine rules about bringing in live animals.

Does my shrimp have milky white disease? She is berried and looks a bit white.

Shrimps arrived. I was a dumbass and instead of putting them in a breeder box to memorize them, they got plopped in the tank (after a drip). Here goes. One of each! There were 2 stardust males of this quality (far as I can account). The EBB are juvies and very bright. Here is a better view of boa juvie #1, I'd say this one is the middle grade of the bunch, has strong blue shadow genes with a couple blue stripes on the cape. Boa juvie #2, I'd say the lowest grade, but it has some interesting yellow and green in addition to blue and wonderful legs. Boa juvie #3. Now we are talking! Hopefully the cape fills in, but pattern and color are exquisite already. I've seen another guy selling Boas that are weak on color but have great capes & hoods for $500 like poof. He obviously sells fishbones out of the same tank as they have extreme capes/hoods so I think I will be bringing in those as gene shrimp at some point to carry on side by side and crossed lines. Another photo of that metallic stardust male (center). The breeder did cross the metallic and boa lines early on which he felt was a mistake and spent a long time re-refining. Idk if I agree as the metallic traits beneficial in galaxies and the stardust in Boas. I will be keeping them separate. Left of him is one of the boa culls, probably the best. Is fanning like berried but hasn't let me look up the skirt yet. If so she will get a new tank pronto (am cycled). One of the other boa culls is one of the most godawful ugly shrimp despite being very metallic. Give er time to color up and we'll see. None of these were $500 shrimp, the 14 of them were slightly under that total. They are all gene shrimp imo. Anybody order a blue fishbone? This one's the best of my lot. I'm realizing that juvies change a lot through maturity but keeping my fingers crossed. How about two? Now it's just trying to mess with our heads. Quite successfully. C'mon little Nanancy, pull through to the next moult. Doesn't appear to bother it. Pattern is idk but the color is boa-like blue/green/yellow. The nanancy vendor wasn't as informative about genetics, only that they had blue genes. Don't think her english is very good, shrimp came wrapped in Chinese newspapers. A few of them are Nanancy advanced, and ofc that will be my breed goal. One of my best, enjoying what's left of a beet. Praying it's a female. Have a couple more that are similar and definite breeders. I'm struggling with decisions about how to assemble my initial breeding units as far as quality vs quantity. I'm leaning towards leaning quantity at first for a gen or 2 to build a population quick, then swinging to culling hard for quality. Anyways that's all for now y'all! (Edit-upon re-reading this last bit evidently I'm Porky the ?)

simon thks for the warm welcome. will do

Welcome to the forum, hopeully you will find a lot of helpful information on here and feel free to ask any questions that may help you? Simon

hello there! thks for adding me to the group. hope you guys will bear with me if the Qs i ask are repeats.

That is one heavily berried shrimp which looks fine/normal to me. Lots of shrimplets to look forward too! Simon

Thank you so much!

Hi, I’ll try to get a better photo. Sorry about that.

Hi @Lucy, It is difficult to see in that photo. Can you try getting a side macro shot of the shrimp?