I had a horrible Migraine on Monday, just now feeling decent enough to actually look at this white website - (so much prefer black background websites!) to do an update. Because of the migraine I didn't get pictures of the new shrimp. Will get pictures of them in their new homes tonight.
I got a package of Malawa, BVs and Wild Chocolate culls from Soothing Shrimp on Monday. All shrimp were happy and healthy when they got here. All showed really good color. Thinking about it, I am sure that the way he packages his shrimp lessens the stress on them, wrapping the bag in newspaper so it's dark and they can't see the inside of the box bouncing around them, moving all the time probably lessens the stress considerably.
The shrimp all had wonderful color. The Malawa were small but I will document and watch their color as they grow, I got 5 of them. The BVs were a super bright blue, best color i've seen without going to a brand new color BVs. The Wild chocolates were a nice dark color mixed with a few lighter ones, to be expected as they were culls to get me started. He very, very, very nicely included me a big fat berried beautiful dark brown momma shrimp. The BVs and the chocolate have their own tank and the Malawa went into the pumpkin tank. The pumpkin tank is so heavily planted, I probably won't see those 5 shrimp until they get much bigger.
The Pumpkin and chocolate tanks are beside my chair and are my "I feel like crap" tanks that I sit and stare at for hours on end. The Malawa will give another boost to something to look at in there as the pumpkin shrimp are fairly new as well, the 10 gallon won't be quite so boring right now hopefully. I spend more time actually seeing my purple mystery snails in that tank than anything. The chocolates went into the 5 gallon right below the pumpkins, they are on a white Activ-Flora substrate so very, very easy to see. They have retained their dark color on the bright white substrate, unlike cherries that wash out and lose color on the lighter color substrates.
Extremely pleased and thankful for the new additions! Carbon rilli's are doing beautifully as well, enjoying their new home.