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Hi Simon, Sorry for the very late reply. I was in Sydney and getting stuff ready to go camping. Camping was loads of fun too! No yowies, but very cold 🥶 How is the heat in the UK? Still boiling hot? Are you watching the ashes? Seems like you are all set up with your freezer full of icy cold snacks! Love it!! Haha very funny about the Laguna Beach trip! 😅 I hope your lil Betta and cherry shrimp are ok, and still thriving. I have been looking all over for a betta and to see if I can buy one and keep it on hold, but no lucky yet. I still have to set up the tank anyway, so thats all good. I'm thinking though that I'll have to go find a betta breeder. I joined an Aussie betta group and there are some breeders in there, so hopefully I can find one I like. One day I may even do a sorority. I'm trying to decide what shrimp I want next. I tend to prefer cardina shrimp. Where I got my first gang of DAS, Hoang, the owner of the LFS, has an amazing collection of shrimp and so many to choose from. I got the 3 tanks off my mate! I'm not sure if I'll use them in my room, but I may set them up as quarantine and hospital tanks. The Biggest one though is fairly decent. Ooh if I could get a pic of my delicate blue eye's, I would upload it, but they escape me, but they are starting to get in their fins! Ok like they always had tiny ones, but now they are getting much larger and coloured. They are adorable! They are so tiny though and I'm feeding them baby brine shrimp, and micro pellets by hikari. So so small they are! Oh and I discovered that a couple of my female RNS are berried! Yay!! Apparently DAS larvae need brackish water to survive, but im sure I have a couple babies atm. Some are really tiny and they are smaller than the ones I bought. The ones I bought have definitely grown up. I'm going to get some more from Hoang though as I love his more than the other supplier. He has RNS too so I'll get more of those as well. Also, I'll make a separate post, but any ideas why my pH may be creeping up? I did have crushed coral in there, as my tank water only has a pH of 6.6 approx. Maybe that is ok for my fish? I'll have to do some research. If I could get it to hover closer to 7 I would be happier. Right now it's 7.6 on the regular api pH test, and saying 7.4 on the high pH test. Im going to try and do another water change today, probably a bit bigger one, and try to bring it down a bit. Not sure if its because of my rock. It does have white stripes in it and I wonder if that's limestone? I read somewhere that limestone can increase it. I hope I don't have to remove it, as I love the look of that rock. Anyway, I hope you and your family are doing well Simon. Speak soon 😊