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I figure I should actually something in my member's journal instead of spamming the invert section since Tanker been so nice to set me up with one. This will be a breeding journal of sorts for my own line of Pure Red Line. I started the line around the beginning of 2013 with two separate lines: 1) Nishiki-Ebi Japanese PRL - Grade "A" No-Entry / Hiro (SS-type patterns) 2) MananaP Red Line PRL - Probably one of the first home grown PRL in Canada - Stephan has been working on this line for a couple years from the Vancouver area Although the initial plan was to keep the two lines separate (and they were for a first little while), the foundation for my current line started with my top male (and only remaining) Nishibi-Ebi JPRL, My top female (and only remaining) Nishibi-Ebi JPRL and my top two MananaP PRL females Nishiki-Ebi JPRL - Top female and male, Feb 2013 The mothers of my PRL shrimps - Nishiki-Ebi JPRL female (left) & MananaP PRL females (right), Aug 2013 As the first batches of shrimplets started growing I decided to sell-off all my regular CRS's and focusing solely on my PRL. No-Entry Line My main line consists of the above shrimps, with the goal being the "perfect" No-Entry pattern (generally what we call SS+ Grade here). Along having a thick shell / solid colors (a common trait for all JPRL), nice solid red legs and having a well defined No-Entry pattern, for me that is having a full red head that goes all the way down to the legs, and a perfectly round Hinomaru circle divided down middle with a well defined white strip run down the middle of the hinomaru, Of course you also aim for larger sized shrimps but that is priority at his stage. Mosura Line I also branched off a pair of Mosura PRL that was part of my initial MananaP shipment. The pair turned out to be a male and female and I kept them in their own section by themselves. I am not 100% sure if they are his PRL or if are hitchhikers from the SSS CRS I gotten at the time - most likely the former i had order 10 shrimps and there were 10 including the 2 Mosura ones (MananaP also had a Mosura line at the time). To be honest i never intended to develop this line - at the time were essentially culls as i didn't want any Mosura patterns in my main lines. Over time they reproduced and I also added any Mosura offsprings from my main line. In the end i decided to develop it for my friends, many of whom were big Mosura fans. Since I never really focused on them until lately, they still got a long ways. I also no longer consider them as "Pure Red Line" due in part the uncertainty of their origin and because they been throwing out the odd snow white offsprings (very nice ones but still snow white - I have taken them and started on as separate project). My No-entry line have not thrown out a single snow white. ever. Granted it could be due fact some of the headgear ones are pretty much all white with only a bit of red on the head and face. At this moment I am still unsure of which direction to take the line; if I want a traditional Mosura for a full red head / white body or to go for headgear style mosuras (SSS+ - crown, flower etc;) . I might end up going for both if I can get some more tanks set up and further divide the line : )
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Now that my shrimp rack is finally complete (for the time being) and I finally cleaned the glass on the tanks the other day, I thought I share some on the photos of the tanks and their inhabitants. My Shrimp Rack started at the beginning of the year when I decided it was time to redone my existing shrimps tanks at the time (2 x 20G, 1 x 10G) and switch the substrate over to ADA Aquasoil. Long story short, I was having issues with the Fluval Shrimp Stratum (low survival rates of shrimplets, etc;) and seeing how a few others on the net were experiencing the same issues and it was almost time to change the substrate over (1 year) and decided to switch to ADA Aquasoil as see if i would have any better luck. I decided to take the opportunity to move the tanks to my spare den to see if it the temperatures would be more stable there. Than I thought i would be neat to have a type of gravity fed "drip" system for my water changes and top-offs so i could slowly fill up the tank during water changes and automatically top off any daily evaporation - from there the Shrimp Rack idea was born! I started putting together my Shrimp rack at the end of March and went with a 48" x 18" medal frame rack from costco and set it up to have 3 levels for tanks and a couple of short level for supplies and storage. The tanks consists of 3 x 10G on the bottom rack, my 2 existing 20G would go on to the middle level. The top level consist of a new 20G long, as well as the two reservoir tanks for water changes (10G) and top-offs (5G). The 3 x 10G were to first to populate the rack at the end of March, the 20G Long was added a in the end of April and than finally my existing 20G were move later in the summer. Unfortunately I didn't really document the process other than a few photos when i first set them up. Here is a photo of the rack today: Current inhabitants are as follows: 20G Long: Super Tiger Shrimps 20G Left: Crystal Red Shrimps (Breeding Group) 20G Right: Taiwan Bee Shrimps (BKK, Panda's) 10G Left: APB Pure Black Line Crystal Black Shrimps 10G Center: Crystal Red Shrimps (Culls) 10G Right: Misc. (Golden Bee, low grade CRS) Other shrimp tanks NOT in the rack but includes: 33G: BTOE / OEBT 9G Eheim AquaStyle: PFR, Green Shrimps 12G Long: tbd 110G Tall: PFR Filtration system in all the tanks consist of a type of undergravel system which are connected to either HOB or canister filters. There is a sponge filter in each tank as well. Substrate in all the tank consist of ADA Africana and Amazonia, the depth and mixture varies in the tanks depending on my targeted parameters. I use 100% R/O water remineralize with Fluval Shrimp Supplement, Mosura MineralPlus or Bee Shrimp GH+. Tanks are kept fairly bare, usually a piece of driftwood with some moss and java fern. Will post more details and pics about the individual tanks below...
