I Won!!!

I won the bid on 100 cherry shrimp with shipping total cost is just over $60.00. I also bid on a lot of 10 Cardinal shrimp which were new a couple years ago found in a lake in the Sulawasi (spelling?) region of Indonesia.

I plan on getting the cherry shrimp and selling half of them for around $2.00 each which is less than the pet store (they want $6.00 each), I may even sell 1/2 to the pet store; the other half to be raised in my 20 gallon tall.

The Cardinals I hope to get a breeding colony going.


Dave

Congrats and I hope your breeding colony works out.

The cherry shrimp are doing great in a tank with three asian filter shrimp (bamboo shrimp) and two Amano Shrimp); I even have a few berried females.

The Cardinal shrimp aren't fairing so well.



Dave

Very nice!

Take pictures and share them.

The Tank... 20 gallon regular size (24 inches long) Plants in the back corners are Amazon Sword, in the front left to right are Cardinal plant, and Anubis. Mid ground plants are from left to right Madigascar Lace, Java Fern, and Hygrophilia.

Shrimp are (3) Asian Filter shrimp AKA: Bamboo shrimp, (2) Amano Shrimp, 100 Cherry shrimp from 1/4 inch to 1 1/2 inch in length.



Berried Female Cherry Shrimp


Cherry on Madigascar Lace (shrimp is 3/4 inch)


Nice Female Cherry on Moss Ball
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All photos Manual focus with Pentax K-7 body. Lenses were Pentax 70-200 w/ macro setting at 200mm, Tamron 70-300 with macro setting from 180-300mm, Sigma 180mm, and extension tubes used some of the time; Flash provided by Pentax AF360 and camera's onboard flash (one or the other at a time).

These photos are unedited

Dave

very nice!!!

Holey Rock of Texas wrote:

very nice!!!

Thank you, the photos of the shrimp would even be more spectacular if I tweeked them in Photoshop (sharpenned, a little white balance tweeks, but no adding or removing content).

I knew I was going to get the 100 Cherry Shrimp so I didn't try to clean algae off the tank for a week with the exception of cleaning the front glass so that the shrimp would be ready to eat well without me messing up the water by adding flake food or an algae wafer that wouldn't get completely eaten.

The Bamboo shrimp have molted and there are many sheds from the Cherry shrimp. Also all the female cherry shrimp that are 3/4 to 1 1/2 inch long are colored out nicely and berried.

Dave

nice, I started out with like 50 cherry shrimp and they breeding like crazy