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Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. So I've got a bit of an impromptu video for you today
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I haven't really prepared a script. The light is streaming in, it's terrible, but what I have got
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is 10 black rose shrimp and my new neon blue crayfish. Now I'm really pleased. I thought for
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once I would film an unboxing. I don't really do unboxings, the truth be told. However, I'm a little
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bit concerned about these. They've arrived today, they've arrived quickly. I ordered them yesterday
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and they've arrived within about 18-20 hours. Really pleased about that. But the packaging is so poor, I have no idea what we're going to find
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As many of you will know, my wife and I have shipped out hundreds and hundreds of boxes of shrimp over the years
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And the way we always package them up is a sturdy cardboard box rammed full of shredded paper
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with the shrimp in a breather bag in the middle, completely surrounded, and then the whole box is taped up
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The great thing about that system is you can shake it, drop it, kick it, bang it, squeeze it
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The shrimp are absolutely fine. These, let me show you. So first off, they've been transported just in this polythene bag
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And inside here is what feels like a plastic tub wrapped in newspaper
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And again, another one the same. not not marvelous so I going to open these up live for you here let see what we got obviously I don know whether there nothing to indicate whether this is the neon blue crayfish or the black rose shrimp So let have a look
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Okay, might not be as bad as I thought. Let me just tear into this
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Okay, so inside here, I can feel water sloshing around. This is a little takeaway container
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Peel the lid off of that. Okay, so far so good. Some instructions there
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Let's have a look. Now this feels a little bit damp, but that's not necessarily the end of the world
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Let's see what we've got. We've got a bag, and okay. So that's our 10 black rose neocaridina shrimp
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A little bit bluer than I would like, but that's okay. They've got a small piece of net to hold on to
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All looks pretty well. Not the end of the world. Right, that's good news. I'll be honest with you
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I was expecting that to be a disaster. Let's open up the other tub and see what we've got
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Hopefully, our neon-bloom crayfish will be in here. And he, I'm calling him he, I have no idea if he's going to be a he or a she
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Now let's have a look. Okay so another small plastic tub, a little instruction book at the bottom which is actually good
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Okay this one taped shut So I think it taped shut because the bag is just bulging slightly but there you go We rip that open
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Again, this paper's a little bit wet. It's quite a bit wetter than the last one, but let's have a look what we've got
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I'm hoping... Here we go. Oh, look. Oh, fabulous. I'm hoping he's much bigger than I expected him to be. I'm hoping you can
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that is coming out on camera there. Well from an unpromising start I'm actually quite pleased. Let's work on
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getting these guys in the tank. Okay so truth be told I don't have a great way
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to film this process. So I've kind of rigged this small tub up beneath the
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camera and what I'm gonna do, so I'm gonna take our little man here and open
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this bag, in fact he's double bagged which is good news. I'm gonna snip the
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top off of this. He's got some polyfill in there or something similar for him to hold on to
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it's always sitting here go let's take that polyfill let him go well done
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okay there we go he seems happy enough so quick okay look a bit jumpy and they sorry about the terrible reflection from the
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from the lights there is our new neon blue crayfish Thank you
