New Additions To The Blog!

I have begun to index the species/shrimptypes-pages differently. Still in progress, but I am slowly getting there!

I am also replacing the white river-sand in my tanks with black sand from Garnelen Guemmer and it looks really good! Below is a couple of quick phone-pictures.

My TangTaiTibee-tank is giving me some nice surprices in the form of small blue and red steels. My red steels resided there for a few days before being moved to their permanent tank so they might have something to do with it.

Red steel in the middle.

Blue steel in the middle.

A few new additions is coming the next couple of weeks. Nanashi, PRL and so on. It will be exciting!

Setup complete...

So, after moving tanks around and scaling down and then back up again I think I am where I want to be (...more accurate; what I have time to look after).

To fill some of the tanks I set up (again) I got some really nice shrimp from Michael Nadal, Heinz Wippermann, Uwe Zeitler, Stev Kolditz and others. Here are a few....

Probably the best yellow fire neon I have seen live. 

I hope I can keep the quality high!

Green jade.

Caridina sp. Nemo bee female.

Stev's ghosts. Really interesting!

16 x 30 litres and 12 x 50 litres should be manageable for me with job and children. I have let go of all fish to be able to do fewer waterchanges and not have the trouble collecting and breeding live foods.

The rack is the good old home-build one with LED lights. Not the fanciest setup, but it works. More about the setup in a later update.

12 of the tanks are dedicated to wildtype(ish) shrimp. Of course I select on my Aura Blue, but they are not crossed with any other species.

Caridina sp. Raccoon tiger is a very nice wildtype...

The wildtype tanks holds these species:

Caridina cantonensis - Tangerine Tiger
Caridina cantonensis - Aura Blue
Caridina cf. cantonensis - Red Tüpfel
Caridina trifasciata - very variable strain - blue, striped, non-striped etc.
Caridina mariae - Blue wildtype with backline
Caridina mariae - Greenish wildtype with backline
Caridina cf. babaulti - Stripes
Caridina venusta
Caridina sp. Nemo Bee
Caridina sp. Raccoon Tiger
Paracaridina haivanensis - Princess Bee
Paracaridina sp. Blue Bee/Schoko Bee

Nice zebras!

The fancy-type tanks holds:

Neocaridina davidi - Green Jade
Neocaridina davidi - Orange Sakura
Neocaridina davidi - Blue Dream
Neocaridina davidi - Yellow Fire Neon
Caridina mariae - Red Tiger
Caridina mariae - Red Tiger OE
Caridina mariae - Deep Blue Tiger
Caridina mariae  - Royal Blue Tiger
Red Taiwan-tank - Red Blot, Red Wine, Red Ruby, Red Ruby Extreme, Red Shadow Mosura
Black/Blue Taiwan Tank - Blue Bolt, Blue Shadow Mosura, Blue Panda, Kingkong, Kingkong Extreme.
Pinto-tank - Red and Black Zebra/Multistripe
Backline-tank - Red and Black Skunk/Backline.
Steel Red
Steel Blue - Michael Nadals Crazy Blue strain.

A lot of pictures need to be taken and/or uploaded but the Neocaridina and Paracaridina pages are correct.