Babaulti shrimp fan club

[hamfist]

Do the Greens change colour? From what I’ve read online they seem to arrive Green for most people then those individuals turn to a brown colour, or is it a selective breeding thing? I really love the greens but if they all end up going a brown colour then i’d much prefer the zebras with those orange eyes, beautiful shrimp.

The greens seem to vary from light green/yellow to almost an orange colour, depending on mood or other factors. The exception to that being the berried females which are a lovely vivid green.

 

[Little]

I've recently tweaked the temp up to 24 C and the hardness up to 1-2 dKH and 7 dGH.

Hi there.

No rush but could you drop an update as to any breading of Zebras at these new parameters in the next couple of weeks please?

I’m looking to get mine probably mid January and am still undecided what to set the water to before then.

Cheers.

 

[CRS Fan]

I’ve never seen Zebra Babaulti’s. Thwy are really nice. I kept greens many years ago and found they liked buffered water. My current water supply has no real TDS. I believe to the added soda ash (a PH increaser), my TDS is usually under 20 PPM.

Best regards,

Stuart

 

[hamfist]

Hi there.

No rush but could you drop an update as to any breading of Zebras at these new parameters in the next couple of weeks please?

I’m looking to get mine probably mid January and am still undecided what to set the water to before then.

Cheers.

Having upped the dKH to around 2, of the 4 x female zebras I have, one has become fully berried up (for around 3-4 weeks now) and another has a few eggs. the other 2 females are a bit smaller and may not be breeding size yet. I have not seen the fully berried female for a few days. Its possible that she has now given birth. I am keeping a keen eye out for tiny zebras ! I will definitely post here if I spot any. My green babaulti are definitely slower growing than Neos or CRS though, so it might be a few weeks even.
My tentative intitial observation therefore is that the addition of some KH spurred them to breed. Its possible that this just co-incided with them becoming sexually mature but my judgement is that they were old enough already to breed but were waiting for more optimal water.