My 10g shrimp sanctuary

Here ya go! Got 'em today afterall. The blue pearl in the bottom left is trying to escape the camera!
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Antennae unfurled
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The shadows show off the blue a bit better
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Wow beautiful, great pics!! Those are some smexy dots and antennae!! Lol. Now I really want some!! I have some Malawa with a pH of 7.8, gH 8, kH 5, temp 83*F and some of them look really different from each other. Like they have a black and white patterns on their 'chest' while some of them look plain with partial stripes on the tail area.

Tthat blue pearl looks pretty blue!! The ones I've seen look almost clear with a bluish tint to it.
 
Wow, cardinals have looong sets of antennae! Reminds me of sw shrimp. I'm anxious to see how these cardinals fare for you longterm, as I don't see many firsthand reports on these shrimp, or other sulawesi shrimp, for that matter. I like your setup for the shrimp, the moss looks so thick and..well..frondy (?) :D
 
That's cool that your cardinals are going good. They are hard to keep.

It's not an easy task to differentiate males from females, until a female got pregnant :)
And it's even hard to see eggs on a pregnant female.

As usual for dwarf freshwater shrimps, females are bigger and more 'fat'. Look at your shrimps closer, if some of them have more curved/higher belly, they are females.
 
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