Soothing Shrimp

Do you have a link?

Looks like that's the kind I'll get then, Rye. Thanks.

Thanks for the help, Luke.

Interesting. Like a blue tinted skeleton, almost.

I'm on my phone. Can someone add me please?

Following this thread. :-)

As far as I know, there's no written record of how it came about.. One theory is chocolates were bred from chocolate diamonds to breed more true. Another theory is different colors were mixed with chocolates to see what would come out. Take your pick. heh I have chocolate diamonds. They are no more difficult than red cherries in my opinion. BD were very sensative when I first bought them as a new import years ago. I lost maybe 2/3 in the first month. I was able to work with them to be more hardy- as other people have done too. When I sold off my stock, they were able to take what shrimpers in the US did to them. I think they may be pretty hardy in general by now, but I have no idea what the true breeding ratio is now. When I sold them off, they were maybe 20% true. I recently bought some black roses. Hopefully they'll do well for me. Usually they only breed 5% or so true, but the person I bought them from claims to have done a higher percentage pf 10% or so. My aim to to create a much higher percentage.

Well, my personal feeling is with that small of a tank- stick with neos and keep it covered to reduce evaporation. Any evap and the params can swing quickly in that small of a tank. A great project is to find a color you like and colony breed to improve that color, or pattern. Maybe this time carbon rilis. Or maybe produce some outstanding painted oranges. The project is only as limited as your imagination. Of course Malawas are very hardy as well, and no one has produced a color strain of them yet... I'm glad you made it back here!

I notice that's $6 for .80 oz. Have you seen this? http://www.amazon.com/Nagai-Deluxe-Sushi-Nori-Count/dp/B007U29UYS/ref=sr_1_17?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1439396477&sr=1-17&keywords=nori+wrap

They might if the attraction force between mags is strong enough. Report back on your findings!

Yepper. Carbon. Doesn't eat algae though. LOL

Yeah. The chocolate diamond strain is probably the one with the most potential, however it is such a genetic milkshake it will take years to get anything to come near breeding true.

Selectively breeding isn't easy. Often it's an educated guessing game. It can draw blood and tears sometimes. Wishing you the best, my friend.

$6 feeders?

What digital light timer would you recomend?

I'm hoping a person here who is into aquatic plants may have the answer for ya.

Will used to have some he was selling, but I don't know anymore since he moved.

I've been on his list for when he has them available. Nothing yet, though.

Wow is that beautiful!

Welcome to our land of insanity.

Thanks for the reminder Sarah. My idea was to take two donut magnets and put them to use. One would have the suction cup nub of the sponge filter put into the hole and on the other side of the glass the 2nd magnet would keep it in place. Here's a pic of the mags I bought: http://www.ebay.com/itm/271561376300?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT The problem is I tried it, but the attraction between magnets is not strong enough to hold down the sponge filter wanting to float. I still think this could be done if I could find stronger magnets of this type....

Blue diamonds, black rose, and bloody marys all come from the chocolate diamond strain. Then they were selectively bred.

I've been trying to achieve a similer look by breeding low grades. Much better now, but very slow going. Most are missing the white face markings.

Here's a quick guide to grading scr: http://www.britishreds.co.uk/super-crystal-red-grading/

Here's an example of a super crystal red.