Just added 12 regular tiger shrimp to the tank, they seem to be doing great. I might be finding new homes for the malawa shrimp and making this tank PFR/tiger shrimp tank.
*Update* My PFRs are finally saddling up, hopefully I'll have some berried shrimp in the next week! One of my tigers berried up for the first time but she dropped the eggs a day later, but she is holding onto 2 eggs at the moment.
BTW those aren't PFR's....they are just regular Fire Red shrimp....With real PFR's you can't see their saddle or tell if they're berried unless they swim and you see their underside...They are called "Painted" for a reason - they are suppose to be opaque (and not translucent) just like red paint from a bucket....PM if you want to see pictures of what a real PFR looks like
I agree with you most of them are fire red, but I do have one or two that are PFR quality since I can't see through them at all, and once I get a decent population going I'll start culling them.
You've got some nice looking PFRs! Once they start breeding on a regular basis your population will grow like crazy! I like the looks of your tank. How do you like the tiger shrimp? I've been thinking about adding some to my PFR tank.
I love tiger shrimp, so I say go for it. try to get some from a person that has similar water params as your PFR tank. I bought 2 batches(10 each) from 2 different people. One batch came from CRS water params and the other came from Houston tap water, I still have all the original ones that came from houston tap. The batch that came from the CRS water params slowly died off over a period of about a month even though I acclimated them for 3 hours(drip method)
The one on the bottom right corner of your latest photo is a PFR but also some look too young to tell if they are true PFRs or not
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