The Shrimp Tank

I have kept freshwater aquariums off and on most my life. Growing up I had the typical community tank complete with clown-puke gravel and extremely fake look plants. I kept guppy's, tropical I had a 29 gallon tank with guppies and other common fish. When I graduated from college and started my first job I bought a 120gal turned it into a high tech planted tank. I got my first shrimp, Cherry Shrimp, early in 2006 and I was hooked from then on. A few months after getting my Cherry Shrimp, I decided to get some Crystal Red Shrimp from Japan. I tried to find someone in the US with high grade CRS for a reasonable price but was unable to find anyone. About a year later I moved into my first house and set up several more tanks and started collecting any species I could get my hands on that would breed in freshwater. I eventually decided to move the whole operation to my garage and start the website. Additionally, as I got more involved in the hobby and tried to acquire other species I realized how difficult it was to find many species in the U.S. I hope to grow the hobby and help make more invert species available to the average hobbyist.