Shrimp, shrimp, shrimp

bigbird

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Hi,

Ok I have had

and

and

and this Darwin Shrimp that was so big is ate all of my cardinals :wb:
would have been nice with garlic and sauce :lol:


cheers jk
 

Doodles

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I only currently have Amano and Cherry shrimp. The Amano are spread around 3 tanks and the Cherries are in my nano tank
 

xingu

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I have some CRS in my little tank (crap photos)





Getting some more for the little tank when they arrive at the LFS, the sp. coming are as follows


Matano Blue Dot (Caridina dennerli)
Mini Blue Bee (Caridina sp)
Nemo Bee (Caridina parvidentata)
Red Crystal Bee (Neocaridina cf.cantonensis)
Diamond (Neocaridina cf.cantonensis)
Blue Tiger Bee (Neocaridina sp)
Red Tiger Bee (Neocaridina sp)

There are probably some Amano in my main tank, havn't seen them for months.

This is my favourite Shrimp shot, a Bamboo that I had in the UK.

 

jessonthenet

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I currently keep an african fan shrimp(big tank)amano and cherry(danio tank).

I used to keep crs, tiger, yellow shrimp, red nose and bee shrimp.

These pics show the difference between the size of an african armoured shrimp and a cherry shrimp. There a pic of a shed shell of the armoured shrimp. The amano pic was taken of my old tank but same shrimp still now and one of when my cherry shrimp population got out of hand.
 

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Mooo

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Awesome, Love all the different shrimp kept..
I have had Crystal Reds(bee shrimp) Need a chiller ..Had them a fair while..then we had a hot summer ...n Whammo, Gonski..






Cherry Reds, Have a nice colony as numbers are growing well..






Darwin Algae Shrimp, doing ok, L333's ate some till I noticed numbers were declining lol so I rescued the remaining ones :D




 
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AusPleco

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Do you sell your shrimp mooo? You have some exquisite specimens.

I am getting 40 cherries tomorrow to start repopulation so then i will have 41 :D lol
Nothing like the quality of yours tho but thinking i might try selective breeding.
 

Mooo

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Naww Thanks mate, I will be soon, Cherry numbers are climbing :clap:
I feed them BioMax ;)
Congrats on your new shrimpies..

You know it isn't far to drive down the coast :D You actually could get some of my shrimpies..:D
 
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AusPleco

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Just hope they look good :( I got some dark red ones sent to me but they lasted less then a week or so :(


How many do you have at the moment?
Whats this biomax? I use the sera shrimp food and hikari crab cuisine which they love when i had heaps
 

Mooo

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You might have to google it, a friend gave it to me, had it for nearly 3 years she only sent a small bit of each foods for shrimps.. I still have a small amount of it all..will have to get me some again soon ..

found this ..out of stock tho & not in Oz..have to find an Oz supplier
http://greenleafaquariums.com/aquarium-shrimp-spawning/biomax-2-shrimp-food.html

I would prolly have close to 60 maybe most are small tho..
 
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bigbird

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You know it isn't far to drive down the coast :D You actually could get some of my shrimpies..:D
Yup plus she makes a mean choclate cake and great cuppa.

PS thanks for the other shrimp correction, you are correct thanks for picking that up

cheers jk :thumbup:
 

AusPleco

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Got my shrimp today :D quiet pleased, a few of them came berried aswell and a nice red.
Am hoping to swap some when i get these guys going to increase gene pool if anyone is interested :) probably be a couple months.

I want to do some selective breeding to get good coloring :)