British Reds

You made a public post about your shrimp food so i replied with questions in public. I am not trying to question you or gain anything, i am not competing against you, i am simply trying to understand the thought process behind adding certain ingredients. I appreciate yeast has protein benefits but Spirulina is a much better option As regards to using forms of wheat as "weight", it's nonsense!! Commercial foods use wheat products to bulk up the product and add weight as a form of saving money. As a private hobbyist you should not be following this example, weight has nothing to do with it!! I can only assume your trying to sell this food? I have developed my own food that i feed my shrimp, its contains no wheat products and uses Spirulina and and Kelp as the base ingredients and the food has no problems sinking. This was not an attack but if you post on a public forum about a food with inferior ingredients you deserve to be questioned on it publicly.

Yeast, wheat germ and wheat flour are products commercial companies use to bulk up the product and add weight. These ingredients have no benefit to shrimp and only add to water problems like nitrates.

Tds seems very low for tigers. If nitrates are zero I'd look into raising tds to about 300. ( using SS GH+)

Have they moulted since you put them in?

The shrimp in the first pics are Goldeneye Black Tigers?? All black tigers are really blue, it just takes strong lighting to show it. Royal blue tigers are clearly blue, they are just normal OEBT without the black stripes.

I don't want to sound critical but why would you use wheat flour, wheat germ and yeast?

PRL just means that the offspring are all red and white with no snow white/golden babies. PRL does not mean high grade. However, it seems a lot of people are calling shrimp PRL and putting a high price on them for monetary gain. People new to the hobby will be none the wiser but newbies wouldn't be buying PRL. Experienced keepers who are looking for high grade shrimp would have done their research, if they are seeing PRL sold for a low price they should smell a fish. Quality over quantity should always be the motto but some people see it as business first, hobby second, if at all. People new to the hobby often get stung but it doesn't take long for people to learn. I do the same as randy. Anything i deem is not up to standard i put in with my standard CRS. Just because you breed two very high grade PRL it does not mean you will get high grade PRL babies. I'm lucky if i get 2 of a similar quality from each batch.

That blue bolt has a lot of breeding potential!! A couple generations using that and you could easily achieve full body colour.

Unless you dealing with culls, solid white is standard which brings pricing down to leg coverage. High grade prl in the UK are still very rare but those who buy appreciate the work involved in breeding them and ate happy paying the prices. As I said though, it's a very select few

Apologies for the quality, they are phone pics.

Sorry, been posting for a few days and never said hi, Hi

PRL Grading comes down to legs colour coverage. Its hard to judge from the pictures.

Yes, red cuticle. They are easy to differentiate from other red Noes

Talk about opening a can of worms!! To me a bloody Mary is a red neocaridina that has been bred from Chocolate neocaridina, like the dream blue/fantasy blue. They are easy to spot as the red shade is completely different from other red neocaridina. On others reds such as Cherry, Painted Red etc the red colouring comes from the red chromataphores. With Bloody Mary it seems they have a red cuticle instead of chromataphores. Rostrum size has nothing to do with it!

The dream blue do not breed true. I have had red, blacks, chocolate and blues out of them. BM do as far as i am aware. I do not breed them but import large quantities. Many arrive berried and i have not noticed anything other than red babies in the tanks.

Clean water plays a big role also, so sat in a bag or dirty water for a few days won't help. This is only a theory and one i have tried a few times. My quarantine tank had an algae issue so i blacked it out for a few days, to my surprise the parasite had also disappeared when i finally had a look on the tank. I have tried this a few times since and had similar results, although the length of time does seem to vary from tank to tank. It could just be coincidence, the parasite could be dying off where it is now in clean water which it is not used to. However, the parasite only seems to die off when blacked out and in clean living conditions. The exact science behind the theory i don't know, but i do know the black out has worked for me every time i have tried it.

The problem is not in the breeding, its the way they are kept. Asian Neocaridina farms keep the shrimp in unfiltered ponds outside and for some reason the shrimp seem to thrive. However, these ponds are full of fungal infections and shrimp are handled poorly when picking and packing, the result is high death rate when they are added to aquariums. The green (or sometimes yellow) fungas is actually a parasite that feeds off of algae spores, its actually harmless to shrimp. If you completely black out the aquarium for 4-5 days the parasite will starve and fall off.