Crystal Red Shrimps

Tsi the main moss is willow moss, its just weighted down (those lead like plant weights) on the substrate and kept behind the wood, I just cut it like a hedge, it grows quite fast, I also tie it to suction things (like hold the heater to the glass) and just attach it to the glass. If you do a few you can’t see the suction things and it looks like its just growing from the glass, it can be trimmed to shape in a tank that doesn’t have much water turbulence. The other moss near the tank wall is java moss, I grew some on a thin piece of bogwood, bored a hole in the wood and then put a suction thing on it and stuck it to the glass. It grows out and you cant see the wood, the shrimp like hiding behind the wood. There is also some christmas and java moss on the wood. Hope that explains it.

Yeah Gan they are super cute perfect miniatures of the adults, I saw a baby moulting today, it literally jumped out of its skin. They would certainly go down fast and well in your tank.

Thanks for the comments, I expect that the babies should survive now that they are almost two weeks old. The other five females all have eggs too, think their babies would need a bigger tank to survive. At this rate, ten shrimps could turn into 150-200 in a few months if I have enough tank space.
 
The babies are about half a centimetre long now, would grow quicker with a higher temp but 21.5C has worked so I will leave it. They eat peas and broccoli now but still mostly the tanks invisible food, I stopped cleaning most of the glass as they graze on it a lot; hence the greenish glass.

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:wub: Those babies are gorgeous. I love your pics of the parent and baby together. Great pics too.

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great pics :nod:
what camera are you using?
 
Thanks for the compliments people, :)

The camera is a Fugi finepix S7000, its macro isn’t bad if I take enough shots I can get a decent pic.
 
Last pics of the babies, they are almost the size of the parents when I got them, the survival rate of the babies has been good I have counted 25 babies in one go but there are probably more.

Thanks for the nice words Millym, your own tank looks great in your sig.

Eating spinach. male & babies and the mother with baby
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Juveniles
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Hope you like :rolleyes:
 

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