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You take good photos and those are wonderful shrimps and what a mix, look forward t hearing how it all goes! I have seen some galaxy, nanashi, scrpion and all sorts of others at the supplier here in UK that I got some shrimp from. They are fairly new patterns that I have only seen for a few years, what will come next I wonder. How many tanks are you going to have to set up and run for this project? What part of USA is Three Forks? Simon

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.

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 ?)

Well I got the ro water from big al curb side pick up and lol of course 3 red crystals.... I did a top off and all seems ok. Saw 3 small babies today. Their mom are raccoons tigers and father? Who knows. It seems raccoon tigers are like rabbits always seem to get berried fast.... the black crystal still berried so maybe I have some from her soon too. I added magnolia leaves. I’m hoping for more berried females. Question does juvenile patterns change as they grow? One of the shrimps was very black when I got it but now the white part seems to be expanding....one of the new ones similar it opposite looks more red then white and I’m wondering if that will change too

It's still a minimum amount of space to meet my goals at 9 enclosures, I think I'll split the 30 long into 3 for 10 total. Let's see, that'll give me tanks to pursue and refine: Boas- Really would prefer 3 tanks at least: 2 tanks for crossing into my red and black lines and 1 tank pure. Kind of want to grab another lineage for another tank. Black & Red galaxy fishbones- 2 tanks, I'm going to cull off the pintos that don't have meritable traits. Blue pintos Metallic blue fancy blacks "Chocolate/blood/sangria?" red morph Advance nanancies Blue bolts And I'm already short tanks to still keep a colony.

Ah I suppose that makes sense also. Your winters are like our summers hehe. Not so hard to hold room temp here. Ofc it gets a zillion below but gotta heat the place anyways.

In summer here, it gets too hot for shrimp. Investment in a chiller or AC the room is a must for shrimp breeding. Cooler climates are just so much better for keeping shrimp. Chillers cost a lot more than aquarium heaters.

Thanks! Yeah so Australia is terrible on imports huh, I've looked into importing here and it's doable but probably adds $300-500 in cost. I suppose the wild shrimp there make it much much more of a concern. Whereas here all we have is grass shrimp and a cooler climate. I guess it sounds like a good climate to be a breeder in then. There is an Australian site for shrimp on Band but its not nearly as active.

You're welcome. That's why this forum exists. Hang out here, and read more posts and you will be an expert in no time. ?

Oh wow, thank you. I had no idea about the bloodworms!