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Oooh if you like the onyx, just wait til the Princes come! I'm working towards getting them outside and it will be easier to get a photo I think. Evidently the onyx, emeralds and blue diamonds were all bred from chocolates. Yeah I'm watching the tank like a hawk now too for more chimeras. I recall seeing 1 shrimp with an off tail, now it's haunting me because even in this small tank I go days without seeing a particular shrimp.

Doesn’t mean we don’t want to see them ? That red onyx looks fabulous, first I’ve heard of that strain! Shows how much more range you guys have over there. Also the first time I’ve heard of chimerism occurring in shrimp, and it’s quite fascinating really. I’m not sure I would’ve even noticed it on that shrimp of yours, had you not pointed it out. Interested to see if you can breed it back to the mother (if he’s not sterile), or find another chimeric shrimp from somebody else to experiment with! You’ve got so much going on in your tanks!

Okay what about potassium? how much do i use? Ah okay. I will try to use those techniques. Thanks

Haha I can totally relate, I’ve had moments where I’ve been so scared one of my berried girls died, and then I just find her chilling a couple days later, and I’m just thinking ‘where’d you go?!’ Oh cool! I’m setting up a tank with @Frosty right now that sits in a bit of sunlight in front of a window (so you can see it from both sides), hopefully the shrimp will look amazing in that light instead of an artificial one. A bit worried about the algae, but hopefully the shrimp and a scraper can take it. We’ve been inspired by you and a couple other guys on the forum to work with caridina, so we’re doing a bit of a fun mischling breeding experiment to see what we can get.

So I did some research on chimerism in shrimp today. It appears it is true chimerism and apparently some shrimp exhibiting are either sterile or unable to breed due to potentially mixed sex organs. I believe I know a common origin point of chimeras, and also that I know who the dam(?) of that shrimp is and that she conferred the trait. For now mum is the word until I test my theories by inbreeding the pair and or outbreeding the chimera.

Finally got photos of my chimera! I'm trying to find another for sale for crossings. Or maybe offspring as people don't want to part with them. Here is the 36 gal, mostly planted. EBB and metallic galaxies going in here today, for now. First scape. Tried a bunch of rocks to no end. Lost most of the slope. I think primordial was achieved though. 20+ plants, won't go into them unless someone asks. Been hitting them with gentle light, co2 and ferts. A ghostie just cuz. Red onyx are gorgeous and gregarious shrimp. Still haven't got a good photo of the emeralds and I'm sure everyone knows blue diamonds. I'll go hunt up pics of the shrimps incoming in the future so we can compare them to actual shrimps down the road. Adios

Just wanted to provide an update to help anyone dealing ich who may read this post. It took me a few days to get the treatment started - big mistake. About half of my fish died in those few days. Another no no, I fed them during the treatment and there were a few small scraps of food on the bottom of the quarantine/treatment tank. They ate the those scraps and the rest of my fish died. Just devastating since my baby albino bristlenose pleco died too. Originally I thought it was my pleco that had the ich, but now after researching their life cycle it's obvious it was the chilis. I waited 3 months and did a hard reset in my tank before adding any new fish. Then I tried again with another 6 chili rasboras. I saw a couple spots on some of the new fish, but they told me they had already quarantined and treated for ich so I added them to my tank. Third no no. Now only a few days later they're covered in spots literally overnight. I should have just treated them and trusted my gut. Now I'm treating them in a quarantine tank at half dose, waiting 3 days then doing a total water change, feeding them, and treating again. Allegedly the ich should be dead in my tank without fish in about 7 days, but I have also read it could take a month to go through their full life cycle. I read somewhere it could take up to 10 weeks or even 6 months, but I think 30 days is a safe bet. Worst case I'll have to retreat if it's still an issue after quarantining for 30 days. After the 6 days of treatment I'll change the water again and leave them in quarantine until the 30 day mark. Moral of the story is always quarantine even if people say they already did.