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After doing some species counts I was pretty surprised at how many native shrimp I currently have. First is what I am assuming are local grass shrimp, which I easily catch with macrobachium, just the macros I tend to put back in the wild rather than keep. Then there are Riffle shrimp Chameleon shrimp Darwin Red Nose Shrimp Darwin Algae Shrimp Typhus Shrimp And a large macrobachium looking shrimp that I have never formally identified. I did have the other type of Red nose shrimp that doesn't breed in fresh water which I think has now died out in my tanks. I did have Barney Springs shrimp which I think have either since died out or are disguising themselves in with the Blackmores. The zebras I had I know sadly died out. I also have some native snails which I am pretty chuffed with and then some native fish such as Threadfin rainbows, spotted blue eyes, Pacific Blue eyes, locally caught rainbows and Streets Creek rainbows, pygmy rainbows and in the back pond I am pretty sure their are still come purple spot gudgeons. Never did I think I would end up with so many natives and still be on the hunt for some other elusive natives like some local Rhads.