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Fems carry the color genetics, so breed to the best fem and save the best colored male offsprings to breed back.

Just wanted to say how happy I am with the shipment I have received from Han.  I ordered two SS filter guards, which are really well made.  Despite coming from the US to Canada, the shipment arrived quickly. Han also included a few samples of some of his foods. I will feed them to the PRL over the next couple days and post pictures of the feeding results!
 
Thank you, Han. Loyal customer earned!

i have posted some days ago a dark red line i am working with, here some new pictures....
 
the line is related in ancestry with the royal bloods.. i hope on the long run very dark individuals in purple (lila) will apear again
 
the light used in the tank is 2700 K that is why images have a yellow touch, otherwise the dark and intense red color woul apear even stronger

Hi there i just received some interesting mosses and ferns from a friend of mine. The origin for this mosses is tropical. i gladly show them to you and will start here a totally new tank only for these species... personally i love at least 3 of these things. they do not look pretty (today the ouside temperatures here were 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) i still hope that they will remain alive and start to grow soon.

Hi there i just received some interesting mosses and ferns from a friend of mine. The origin for this mosses is tropical. i gladly show them to you and will start here a totally new tank only for these species... personally i love at least 3 of these things. they do not look pretty (today the ouside temperatures here were 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) i still hope that they will remain alive and start to grow soon.

Hi there i just received some interesting mosses and ferns from a friend of mine. The origin for this mosses is tropical. i gladly show them to you and will start here a totally new tank only for these species... personally i love at least 3 of these things. they do not look pretty (today the ouside temperatures here were 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) i still hope that they will remain alive and start to grow soon.

Hi there i just received some interesting mosses and ferns from a friend of mine. The origin for this mosses is tropical. i gladly show them to you and will start here a totally new tank only for these species... personally i love at least 3 of these things. they do not look pretty (today the ouside temperatures here were 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) i still hope that they will remain alive and start to grow soon.

I would assume the demand would be something less then the normal CPOs.  In my experience there isn't a huge demand for them in general.  I could be completely off base though

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blue dreams and carbon rilis are related in selection (same ancestry). that is why you see this individual. it is a rili

Splotched carbon.

I recently bought a bunch of "blue dream" shrimp from my LFS and when I was acclimating them I noticed one was quite different than the others.  I tried to research and I'd it myself and the closest I could come was maybe a black tiger with black eyes? It looks black in my pics but sometimes when I look at it in the right light it looks very dark blue.  I also thought maybe it was just a really old, mature blue dream but I don't think so. The eyes look brighter in the pics but I was shining a flashlight at her. Without extra lighting the eyes are dark.
 

 

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I will always vote for any green shrimp.

I was doing some research on shrimp pigment and found out that shrimp color- such as different types of albinism is not related to melanin; that's a mammal thing. Instead, crustation pigments are all carotenoids.
 
Not surprising when you think about it, and something which I guessed already.
 
However upon further research I found why astaxanthin causes color change.  In my past experiment with neo yellows, feeding astax causes a color shift from yellow to greenish to blue to brown.  Why is this so, when in fish it can make them redder?
 
The answer lay in how the molecule is constructed.  When astaxanthin is relaxed it is red, when compacted it is blue.  In crustations it does not occur in it's basic relaxed form when eaten; instead it’s mostly bound to a protein called crustacyanin that causes it to compact.  Thus causing a bathochromic shift.  In other words, since this string winds up being crumpled up and forced into into another molecule, it behaves as a blue/brown pigment.
 
An example of this is a normal brownish lobster.  Cook that lobster and it turns red.  Why?  Because the protein that compresses the astaxanthin is broken and the astax then is free to go to relaxed form.
 
So color of the tissue/shell is from differing amounts of free and bound astax in different layers of the shell, how thick the shell is, and whether astaxanthin is closer to the surface or in a deeper layer.

i use regularily 2700K because i like mosses, sakuras are very nice cleaners of mosses, that is why i like them....
 
 

i use regularily 2700K because i like mosses, sakuras are very nice cleaners of mosses, that is why i like them....
 
 

i did a second instant shooting session using cool white LED light, the pictures are all take from upside (i will sent these animals to a friends in a few hours that is why i took them out). Where they seen dark the white LED light comes from above, where the red is more clear the light comes from side. i just tried to show the intensity of their coloration

i did a second instant shooting session using cool white LED light, the pictures are all take from upside (i will sent these animals to a friends in a few hours that is why i took them out). Where they seen dark the white LED light comes from above, where the red is more clear the light comes from side. i just tried to show the intensity of their coloration

I need to trim my hi-tech tank and thought I'd offer up a great deal here. All plants will be indidually wrapped and labeled. All my plants are algae free. They are all grown in high light, ferts and plenty of co2. This is a great starter package if your just starting up a tank. This is what is included.
 
Echinodorus angustifolia 'Vesuvius' x 3
Cuphea anagalloida x 2
Myrio Tuberculatum 'Red' x 2 
Proserpinaca palustris (mermaid weed) x 3
Limnophila 'mini vietnam' x 4
Rotala waiichi x 4
Ludwigia atlantis x 2
Plus extras!!
 
(may contain snails)
Snais are good!

 
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A must try is... "Shrimp Crack", "Boss Booster" (Has similar ingredients to Glasgarten Betaglucan)  and "Baby Powder"
 
 
 
Let me know if you have any questions!!!
 
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I like ferns. They're low maintanance and come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.Microsorum Windelov is one of my favorites.

Swords, aponos, onion plants, hornwort, anacharis, and moss.

It was val but now it's making a wall of moss does that count?