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wow that is really nice i only got 1 crs left out of about 3 lol the lfs felt sorry for my crs dying in transit when i ordered some off them and sold me thair crs in a display tank for cheap((grade c or lower) i like them would love a big tank with some in. planning on getting a 6 foot tank just for...

hehe im blind i cant se any shrimp in the pics ...

never mind i looked again and noticed it like i said im blind lol i thaught it was a rock at first im a nugget...

they are cool i hope it is a new colour morph and you can selectivley breed them they would be cool you could call them something like ... i dunno i would of said ninja shrimp but that is taken by the well ninja shrimp lol... anyway that is a cool looking shrimp and hope you have a male and female a...

i have never kept them together but i have kept them in tanks with dwarf shrimp before on seperate occations and never seen agresson from either i did notice that the african filter shrimp seems to be alot more timid and shy than the asian one (if we are on about the same species as some places name...

What kind of substraight are you using? If it's a light colour or white that could be a reason as to why the shrimp are pail. it may be but i use coral sand with my cherries and mine are coulored up niceley (water sucks where i live need ciral sand to keep parameters up) but i have a stable tank no...

agreed :D . my cherrys some are verry vibrant and some arent. if they havent coloured up in eight mounths then i think it will be genetics aswell. suppose you could supliment thair diet with some quality flake with spirulina (acording to the lable it helps bring out colour. although other foods work...

wklotz wrote:Chris shot some photos from the new imported shrimp:
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wow they are all freshwater? i like the 4th and 5th shrimp on the first page they look so nice you are lucky

that black and whit one looks cool... makes me jelous i cant go and see things like that in the uk :(. most of the things in the uks local rivers andd stuff are plain and less colour. wish i lived somewhere tropical near the beach no need for a fish tank could go diving or snorcaling instead(seeing ...

did you get them on special order or did the place you get them from have them in a tank? one place i normally have to go to get special orders in from won't take shrimp out the delivery bags they come in so i need to rush to the lfs to get them aclimatised and in my tank asap. (i found that out the...

cool thx

that looks cool shame it is its stressed colour(would be cool if it was a new colour morph tho may be possible but i know nothing about shrimp genetics) jk if you don't mind me asking what part of the UK do you live in?

due to the fact that copper salts are hazardous to aquatic life and i not too healthy for humans i doubt that the food will have much copper salt it will probable be a trace element in the food so shouldnt do to much tho what i was going on about would only be if you poured copper sulphate in a your...

not too shure but maby the reason its safe is because its a copper compound and not just pure copper dissolved in the water? if that is correct then id be carefull because if there was another element that could displace the copper in the copper sulphate for example iron"In an illustration of a...

Neonshrimp wrote:Good job, I guess we all learn how to better care for the shrimp as we go forward.

yup although i wish i lerned that the easy way now im more carefull

i bought about 6 of them once when i first got into shrimp was when i only could find amino shrimp and i was alot less knowlageable about shrimp then. they were in my tank about two months and died or got ate dunno(probably died due to weater parameters) but they were cool. i wouldn't keep them now ...