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After reading through some posts on food and nutrition I saw someone mention nasturtiums, leaf and flower, is safe and tasty for shrimp to eat! See I have a huge nasturtium plant hanging on from this past summer. It has even made it through snow, that we got in early May! So I went and picked the biggest and tastiest looking flower, and popped it in the tank. They love it but the only problem is I have orange poop everywhere!! 💩🤣 Also I noticed I have a couple orange poop shoot shrimp. 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for this recommendation, they love it! ❤️ Also do you think they could eat rosemary flowers? My rosemary is out in flower at the moment. Also my sage flowers fairly often too. Can herb flowers, apart from anything from the onion family I'm guessing, be given as well? Pics of my red/orange nose shrimp!!

Oh my goodness! Those fish are adorable!! Im so excited to see them in a tank of yours when you and they are ready. How old are they now Simon? What age can you take some home? How many will you get? Lol sorry for all the questions! I'm finding more and more LFS's but I would guess you have more in the UK as your population is much larger than ours! 80% of Aussies live within 1hr of the coast and we all congregate around our capital cities. Majority of us are on the east coast (like Jason and I are) but a few million live on the west coast, in Perth- the most isolated city in the world! Fun fact for you! Lol! It can be hard to get some fish as our quarantine authorities don't allow all fish in. Like Pea Puffers were apparently stuck in illegally, and now you can buy then, but the are between $175 and $250 each!! The prices are coming down though. I get my plants from a really well trusted source. I did get some red root floaters from another store and although they were great looking, I think I got a few pest snails off them. I have so far found 3 and have killed them. In my tank I have nerites and that's all I want. Ooh never seen or heard of the dennerle tanks! I must go searching for them. I really just want, plain opticlear tanks with clear silicone. I just want that crystal clear look. I have found some 30L cube opticlear tanks on ebay for $99 AUD each. I then found 60x30x30 tanks for $199, although I have found some of those cheaper elsewhere. Rainwater- we have 3 massive rainwater tanks. 2 on our big American barn, one on our house and dads looking at putting another on our other shed. Hopefully we get rain this winter as only our biggest shed tank is full. The smaller one is empty and our house one is half full. We thankfully live in the wettest town in our state and we do get loads of rain. Back in 19/20 when we had the bushfires, we were in drought then, and we had to buy water from the mains. We are lucky to though as next door has a bore and they often say to take whatever we want from it. Im not sure if bore water is better than mains, if I got into that position again where we had no water. Im thinking of buying a RO unit though as back up or maybe will use it all the time. We are lucky too as we live out in a rural town and we have very clean air, however it may change if this plastics recycling company gets its way and is approved to be built 20kms away from us. Our member of parliament just called for it to be stopped, during a speech she made in parliament this week. Our community is fighting it. Hopefully it's stopped. Thank you, yes its coloured up wonderfully, I agree! I do think it's a calceo too. I would love to get more of them and make that next tank into a home for them. I would love to make another tank for the other brown one too, if I can find the same coloured ones as him/her. Im pretty happy to have received these 2 as I didn't pay for them and they are not the cheapest either, that he has for sale in his LFS. I think they were $20 for the red and $30 for the blacks, although my guy is a bit more brown, but he may still be colouring up a bit still. From that LFS I bought a pack of 3 nerites and 6 of each DAS and RNS and I ended up with about 25 shrimp in the bag that he gave me! Lol! I am soon going to put an order in for 10 more RNS as you don't see many of them. I think I can fit more in there still 😆

Thank you! Haha love it! Interesting my guys went nuts for the nasturtium leaf and flower and left the spinach! 😄 I have my own big organic veggie garden, so they have lots of different things to enjoy in it! I have broad beans, Brussels sprouts, peas and snow peas coming. I wonder if they would enjoy those? I also have broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Cabbage, rainbow chard, silverbeet, spinach etc. We also have 3 big organic mulberry trees (white and red) and we have a huge number of herbs too. When I saw the Rosemary flowers I wondered will they get purple or blue poop?! Haha! I also have a big strawberry tower. I heard of people feeding strawberry tops...I wonder if they'll eat the leaf? I know guinea pigs love strawberry leaves. It's now kinda become a big fun science experiment! Haha! Haha I didn't want to say about blue poop but that's why I asked cause I want to see if they get a blue or purple poop chute! Haha! 🤣🤣🤣 It's funny, right now there is orange species of poop floating around the tank! 🤣🤣🤣

That shrimp has coloured up nicely! You shouldn't have a problem getting more if they sold that at your LFS, I'm sure it's a Red Calceo. Don't try any plants that may have polutants or any traces of insecticides etc! We have a bewildering array of aquariums available here, so I expect you can easily find what you want where you are being a much larger country, as I expect you have way more to choose from there (my favourites are the Dennerle aquascape tank range, the one that my nice shrimp were in is a 35L, W x H x D 40 x 32 x 28 cm). It certainly will keep you occupied sorting and setting up all the tanks you want. You say you plan to use rainwater, do you get/have enough where you live for all these tanks? Looking forward to hearing and seeing how it all goes/progresses. I got an update photo from my friend of the fish, not very clear but they are still small, he says he still has all 8 babies alive, only 3 in the photo though.

Yes. Should not be a problem. That's an amazing picture of the Red Nose. It would be fun to see it eat blue rosemary flowers. Blue poop??

Oh my gosh Simon, those are some stunning shrimp! Just beautiful! 😍😍😍 Your aquascaping is stunning too. Gorgeous tanks! Thank you, yes I think the brown one is a low quality. The red one, I'm not sure how good a quality it is. I just got another pic of it, so I'll pop it up. I would love to be able to identify it properly as I would love to put it in a tank with more from the same species. The LFS they came from has both calico and calceo so I'm really unsure as to what it may be. Ooh that's very exciting re:apistogrammas!! Do you have any photos of them you could share with us please? Yes its a stunning set up. If you were to have another shrimp tank, you should definitely try and recreate it! I have just been thinking about my next tank, and I have decided, in a 40+Litre tank, I want to put in bonsai driftwood, with riccia fuitans moss as "leaves" on the bonsai tree. Then have a carpet of a java moss for the shrimplets to hide in. Im also going to put some seiryu rocks that stick up out of the moss to add a bit more character. Im really looking forward to doing this shrimp tank. I just want something fairly simple in terms of maintenance and looks. I think it would look great in a cube 40L tank if I can find one that holds 40L. I mainly see them selling 30L tanks. I just think that extra room is best for them so i would prefer to go for a 40L. I hoping I don't need to get anything custom made! 😬 P.s...I'm sorry I only just saw your comment. It's been a very hectic past 2 days and I'm only just now catching up on social media etc. Sorry to leave you waiting for a response.