Malaya Update...

[southerndesert]

Hello All,

Well I just thought I'd share an update on my Malaya shrimp project. I now have several batches of young and the first batch born 12/25/2007 have grown to a quarter inch or more now and are very close to the size of my original 10 when they arrived. These shrimp are not difficult to raise and ary very steady producers with the females becoming berried again very soon after giving birth. Here are some photos of a berried female, eggs, and one of the young...







This has been a very rewarding experience and I will soon have a tank full of these beautiful shrimp. Perhaps I will have some more color varieties to share as the young mature over the next couple months. Thank you Mustafa for bringing this shrimp into the hobby!

Cheers, Bill

[Neonshrimp]

Very nice picture, I especially like the close up of the eggs Thanks again for sharing with us.

[southerndesert]

Managed a few more shots of young... From different batches.







They are very hard to get a still shot of....

Enjoy, Bill

[adimeatatime]

Hi Bill,

You always post such good pictures. I enjoy seeing them. Thanks.

Pat

[Newjohn]

Hi Bill

How are your Malaya's Doing ?

These are a very nice Shrimp with alot of different colorations.

It will be nice when these are more readily available in the Hobby.

Keep up the good work.
John

[southerndesert]

Hi John,

They are doing very well and I am cycling a new 20 long that I plan to expand my population into in a few weeks. I too really like this shrimp and plan to keep a couple tanks of them going. I have a pretty large population of young shrimp that are soon to be adults now and should have a couple healthy thriving colonies in a few more months time if all continues to go well. It is amazing how many folks have emailed me asking about available Malaya Shrimp after seeing photos, but I am waiting to have a fully established second colony before ever offering them. Besides I have someone that gets the first batch available already patiently waiting



This is this morning at feeding time...

Cheers, Bill

[Guba]

Those are some really cool photos!!! They are very inspiring, I'm thinking of buying some ghost shrimp to see if I can raise them through the free floating stage.

[southerndesert]

This Photo has a couple of the original females in it that I got from Mustafa..



Mostly young adults in the next photo...



Bill

[Newjohn]

Very Nice looking Colony.

Keep up the good work.

John

[Guba]

You mentioned that the photo has a couple of original shrimp Mustafa, how old are the original shrimp? Also, I'm new to this forum thing, how do you highlight someones quotes and put them in your reply??

[Newjohn]

how do you highlight someones quotes and put them in your reply??

Click on the quote square just above the reply box and you will get this

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Copy what you want highlighted and paste it between the 2 quotes.

I hope this helps

John

[Guba]

Thanks John, I just tried what you said and it worked. COOL!!

[southerndesert]

You mentioned that the photo has a couple of original shrimp Mustafa, how old are the original shrimp? Also, I'm new to this forum thing, how do you highlight someones quotes and put them in your reply??

Perhaps around 5 months since I got them...Can't remember for sure, but that is close. Each female has been berried more than once and I have several batches of young growing up.

Cheers, Bill