Many thanks guys, so far no more breeding news from the CRS or the Cardinals, the cherries keep on breeding, had my first trial run of sending shrimp via the post to SteveUK all went well and will soon offer more for sale if people want them.
Mark many thanks for your comments hehe I purchased 10 Cardinals and usually see 7 or 8 together at the same time, but so far haven't seen any dead, the CRS purchased 15 also never see more than 7 or 8 together but again haven't spotted any dead, I haven't seen the little CRS in a couple of weeks, but I haven't been looking, been getting home every day at around 10PM so haven't had much time for the tanks, just feeding and water changes.
I use my old Konica-Minolta 5D with a Tamron 90mm macro lens and some close up filters for the extremely close up shots, I don't crop the photos, just resize, apply some USM and play with the curves, also use an external flash unit most of the time used wirelessly above the tank.
The Cardinals are bigger now, close to 2cm so are the CRS, don't think they grow much bigger, from what I have read CRS and Cardinals start breeding at around 5 months old, so early days still
Amanos are a totally different ball game, and don't have the time or patience to breed them
Thanks everyone for looking and for your feedback, thats what keep me going most of the time