Louie

Dwarf puffers are fantastic . Pet store I go to had them but sold them out fairly fast . Everyone who as had them says they have personality . Set yourself up a 10 gallon tank with some plants and get a few . They seem easy as far as water goes but unlike endlers you need a heater . I think their only drawback is feeding according to several sites . The pet store fed them ghost shrimp and snails . '' The most available member of the genus is the pygmy or dwarf puffer (Carinotetraodon travancoricus), also sometimes called the pea puffer. A fully grown adult male will top out at about three-fourths of an inch (about 2.2 centimeters). Males exhibit deep green coloration often highlighted with gold, and a golden to orange belly. Females are a bit plain, with lighter colors, no golden highlights and a whitish belly. These diminutive blowfish come from Kerala State in Southwestern India and are collected in the River Pamba. They are not picky about water conditions and will adjust to most local water supplies without trouble. They are ravenous eaters, consuming just about any live or frozen food. Unlike many larger puffer species, they don't seem to enjoy frozen mussel and will just pick at it, while their larger cousins will gulp it down whole. They will even eat flake and pellet foods, though they don't seem to respond as well to them and will slowly waste away if that is all you feed them. Their particular favorites are frozen bloodworms, other worms of any kind and newly hatched brine shrimp. They love snails and will quickly depopulate an aquarium of these sometimes annoying gastropods.'' http://www.fishchannel.com/freshwater-aquariums/species-info/puffer/dwarf-puffers-are-hard-to-resist.aspx

That shrimp is a beauty would be great if you could breed it and get more like that down the line .

I read somewhere that guppies and endlers were rather popular in the UK ?

Lol I have had shrimp for couple of years now and I don't know what is what . My first tank was assorted colors combined which have given me neat colors and some drab ghost like ''colors'' . I called some Rili which Soothing pointed out they weren't thus I can see how that would confuse you . Some of my whites have clear midsections which Soothing pointed out are called White Skeletons but considering the hodge podge of ''lineage'' these shrimp now have lol , I would not bother separating any to breed them .

I use tap water but like everyone here has stated I also de-chlorinate it before adding it . The tap water here is good but PH is high yet they thrive and breed . I use either regular pea size river gravel in my tanks as they are planted or do not use substrate at all but I use few pieces of driftwood with Java ferns, moss tied to them which took off on their own . Bottom of those tanks are painted black on the outside .

Oh than yes the turtle just slows down a bit . The temp differences in this state are unreal . Its now high 50s in Orlando , high 60s here in Miami and 70 plus in Key west .

Nice . People don't care for Condy anemones but I love them and often find them washed up on shore attached to rock, etc . I throw them back in the water. I find them very cute .

If it enjoys old reruns of Match Game with Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Summers .

Beautiful shrimp and livestock period . I saw the pics of your pond like in a green house so I take it you are in a cold state . Does the greenhouse hold temps for your pond , I imagine it keeps it from freezing but yet the turtles do go dormant ?

Gorgeous frogs and set up . I kept mantellas in the early 90s .

Funny you say that because I notice that even when temps are days of low 80s/high 70s they stop breeding here Dec to Feb .

My PH is high and hornwort grows great . The canals here have an insane PH and it grows there left and right .

I have had endlers for years and I always tell people that they will go after each other and people think I'm crazy till they put several males together . Granted they aren't cichlids but they do have a pecking order but thick plants are the key or even other type small fish .Just not the demonic mosquito fish .

Do you males get along ?

He has a clear midsection but the other one isn't actually white but a pinkish/white . I have several of both . Over time I got a few interesting colors from the initial pure CBS,CRS and White shrimp and I have sold the babies are pure Panda shrimp at $50.00 each. Lol I'm just kidding I don't know shrimp genetics nor would I ever sell shrimp . Though in last few batches I no longer mix shrimp and individual tanks .

There are actually a few Fish farms in that area which I find interesting considering that it can get 10 degrees colder than here and we are now in a chilly spell .

''Are you sure those rili/lines aren't neos?'' lol oh no disrespect at all . As long as you don't mock root beer floats (root beer with vanilla Ice cream ) than we don't have a problem . I call them Rili because to me they look like Rili . I don't know what is what as far as neo or not . To me they look like Rili so I gave them that name . The cherry shrimp are also off springs because I have never put cherry shrimp in that tank . Here are also two diff color hues of the Whites.

Oh that Arrow Shrimp is unique . Never heard of them.

I can eat anything but that canned Chicken looked deplorable .

I agree the snakes want nothing to do with you . The beetles aquatic or terrestrial are a different story , lol

N.C is very nice . To cold for me but a nice state . They have the nicest looking scarlet kings going because unlike Florida's the N.C type has white bands instead of yellow . http://i584.photobucket.com/albums/ss290/xxxHERPERxxx/North%20Carolina/NC%20Snakes/Scarlet%20Kingsnake/P1030487.jpg You also have the fantastic Flying squirrel which you will see at night if you have a bird feeder . As far as collecting besides shrimp which you are interested in the darters are great .

Yes it was from Segrest farms which I have bought from .

These aren't the best pics because I use an old cell phone and it picks up green hue due to light . Though the water is very clear but the cell phone seems to pick the green color . The initial shrimps were Crystal red, Crystal black and few white ones . Over the year I have gotten what look like Rili and few with stripes down the back just to mention a few types . This tank is a 20 gallon long and perhaps over 100 shrimps by now but the one's without any color I net when I can and put in with guppies and endlers . I have gotten very neat colors and even have a few solid blacks which I'll photograph when I see them.

lol I call the morphs I got Rili as they looked that way to me . I don't sell shrimp so I wouldn't sell them as Rili but to me they looked like Rili .

The albinos have been on ebay a few times from a Florida fish farm and not expensive either . Eventually you could get some. I might get some as well .