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Well I've had a busy long weekend. I have decided to almost completely change direction with my shrimp breeding focusing much more on TB, Taitibees, CRS and CBS. Horror of horrors I actually put up several hundred shrimp for sale - me the shrimp hoarder has finally let go of lots of my lovely shrimpies! I even finally posted off the last of my Cherry varieties and now only have culls in a pond outside. I also sold of all my cull CRS, lots of Taitibees and most of my CBS colony. I have 2 people coming to pick out the remaining CBS and Tibees plus 3 people waiting to see if there are any left. So I have finally taken a step towards quality over quantity and will focus on pure line TB, TBM, Taitibees - I want to eventually put them into colour specific tanks to get them breeding true although with the Tibee genes in some lines that will take a while and hopefully they will still give me some nice surprises. my push in this direction has come from this seasons babies. My Tibees are at least F8 and having mixed them with F8 Snow White Mischlings, TB and TBM I am now starting to see some beautiful colours - they are too small to photograph but even at this early stage I can see dark BB, RR, pinto types , pandas and KK even some extreme RR. it has brought back a bit of excitement into the shrimp room and now I will have empty tanks to get ready for colour coordination . I am looking forward to seeing how the babies progress - just have to keep them alive first!