Soothing Shrimp

great photo manticore!

It must be nice to live in a nice warm climate. Here it can get in the very low negs in winter.

Interesting set up you have.

But when it turns off, AL10, the temp drops again. With a heater, you always have a base temp.

Yeah. Although the most recent name change has been to call the neons: yellow backs. I should clarify myself that I've not seen a TRUE yellow sakura. I have seen the mislabel off and on.

I doubt it. You see, neo occasionally have the racing stripe show up on some. Just genetics. This is probably what you have. The neons were just bred to have the racing stripe be consistent. BTW sakura usually refers to pigment on the shell. Looks more wood grainish. I've never heard of a sakura yellow. heh Creative name though.

In general fish and shrimp don't mix well since shrimp are on the bottom of the food chain. Ottos are your safest, but they won't do much for hair algae. If just a fish tank, flag fish and black mollies do very well eating that stuff- or so I hear.

That's what the neon yellow strain looks like. All shrimp in that strain have that yellow racing stripe.

Man is that clean!

As long as you have a seeded filter, and shrimp food, you should be fine while the biofilm is building.

PM me with details.

Supply and demand. heh

LOL I forgot I was part of that conversation myself back then.

In my case it was the male who jumped. Now I'm left with a fem, and trying to find her a different color large sized male.

Well, from what I have been hearing folks, true prl/pbl x TB are higher than regular mich, and can be just as high as the lower priced TB. Here's the reasoning. High quality prl are solid colored. Take that quality x TB and breeders are hoping that new variations will pop out over the average crs breeding. Now after having said that, I don't know if their theory will actually work- at least in the short term. Why? I'll use the stack of cards analogy again, and although not perfect, it still gets the idea across. Imagine spending lots of time picking up playing cards and stacking them into a deck. Now imagine throwing that deck in the air. Some playing cards may stay together, while others fly off. You then need to spend time to stack those playing cards again. The playing cards are modifiers. The solid coloration of crs/cbs isn't a mutation, it's from selective breeding from a bell curve. So take a selectively bred shrimp x another shrimp, and the modifiers (like playing cards) will be spread out again. But yeah. The idea is they'll achieve higher quality TB with new variations.

Cobalt is very high quality from what people have said.

So Ebi or Pika, would you consider making and selling your soap for shrimping? I'd rather support the members here. I'd prefer liquid, but can't be picky.

Every time I read JBB, I was thinking Japanese Blue Bolt! LOL I, too, like the high quality CBS. The reds are beautiful, but also common.

Looks great. What was the site again? I'd love to read your method.

Like this one from google: They may not have that var in Trans. (?)

Look a little like Kanoko!

awwwwwwwwww...shucks. Next you'll show us a purple KK.

The bottom two pics look BBRR. The top pics are unusual. Almost like the racing stripe on the pigment. As far as the top two, I know no one working on that var.

I've been using dish soap since it removes oil from my hands as well.

If she's a first timer, she may drop the eggs. But so good so far. heh