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Clear banded one too!

opae ula related wrote:Clear banded one too!

Yup! I've noticed that some of the baby ones from the batch before have some stripes too. They seem to be taking over lol.


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Another berried mom shrimp has turned up! This ones carrying a huge amount of eggs I wonder how many more are in the tank that I haven't seen! This new year is off to a great start.
As great as this new tank is the lid fit is making me lose around a litre and a half every week from evaporation, i may need to source a new custom cut glass lid.

Just some eggs! everyone loves eggs

Awesome. How did you get that pic?

Thanks! i just snapped it with my Sony camera and macro lens, she was at the front of the tank on the mesh bag.

Berried shrimp number 3 has just turned up! This ones got 2 clear bands as opposed the the other berried female with a single clear band.


Good times ahead.

I managed to snap a few closer up with my Sony camera, maybe carrying 10 or so eggs? I have also moved the bag of sand that i used to seed the big breeder tank to a cube i have just re-setup again after breaking it down for its water and rocks. The cube will be used for larvae only.


Here is a few snaps of my main 140litre tank now all is complete and im very happy with how it turned out.

Since you have a huge tank, you should have more that are berried. Larvae tank only?

opae ula related wrote:Since you have a huge tank, you should have more that are berried. Larvae tank only?

LOL i hope i do! I wasn't expecting to get 3 or more berried this soon into moving them into their new home though. All but 2 of the past larvae batch have now become shrimp and have hidden in the rocks, another day or 2 and the last few will surely be joining them. I decided to have a holding tank for the larvae so i can 'try' and keep check of population in my main tank as I don't want it over run/over stocked which will probably reduce breeding. If i did want to try and take out the baby ones after the larvae stage then i think it would be too difficult and stressful on the tank by hunting for the little ones with a net etc.