shrimplets will stay at spot they born for fews day then start to wonder around. yes they like to hide but after few molting they will come out like the adult.
unless your water parameter got problem , shrimplets will survive. high nitrate is one of the main killer so do high organic waste load.
If you are using ADA soil which age are less then 6 mths , ammonia spike maybe the culprit.

Checked my Ammonia, Nitrite & Nitrate... all 0ppm. pH around 6.5-7.0. Perhaps I should get a GH kit as well to determine why my shrimps don't seem to be interested in breeding. I suspect my water could be hard cos I get all this lime build up in my old 2 ft tank. Does that make sense?

Speaking of molting, I saw the one of the shrimps skull / skin / exoskeleton. After that, I counted and one shrimp is missing. Are there usually any signs of weird behaviour after molting?

please do readings. don't ask silly question la bro. afraid you end up shot by some rage people.keh3 like the day before yesterday.kih3. not all things simply can be asked. people will chop you with a dupe or conman. the question that circulating in my head is wether you are real or dupe account.... .coz i didn't see your tank and you ask questions that being asked by other dupe...... please advice on this matter. thanks.

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Actually, dupe account affected us. on selling stuffs and giving ideas and knowledge. for me, those are a waste for us to contribute to the dupe account.we here take serious of what people ask. like brother arrow, flipmode, leonz, december rose and others that active in this threads. also in the planted tank thread. we here want to guide not in this thread only but we will guide until in front of your tank if you ask to. because, we want to create a society and spending some times with and sharing hobbies with the same interest people.so, i would like to ask all not to troll2 in here.hehehe. small trolling can lor. but please respect the members here. if donwan to respect the person, at least respect their efforts that keep this thread alive and kicking. just my point of view. thanks.

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Added on June 22, 2012, 10:42 am[quote=sang gemok,Jun 22 2012, 10:36 AM]
[quote=Malformed,Jun 22 2012, 10:04 AM]
Actually, dupe account affected us. on selling stuffs and giving ideas and knowledge. for me, those are a waste for us to contribute to the dupe account.we here take serious of what people ask. like brother arrow, flipmode, leonz, december rose and others that active in this threads. also in the planted tank thread. we here want to guide not in this thread only but we will guide until in front of your tank if you ask to. because, we want to create a society and spending some times with and sharing hobbies with the same interest people.so, i would like to ask all not to troll2 in here.hehehe. small trolling can lor. but please respect the members here. if donwan to respect the person, at least respect their efforts that keep this thread alive and kicking. just my point of view. thanks.

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sorry, forgot to mention person who drop the price and supply quite sometimes of the planted tank stuff that we need.hehehe

mr ciohbu and mr weijie.

so far cheap price compare to others. hehe

This post has been edited by sang gemok: Jun 22 2012, 10:42 AM

LOL

well said SG..
i wouldn't mind if anyone to ask any silly Q. that's this forum for, to discuss and sharing.
but asking the same Q that's appeared in same page, that's quite irritating man.

please do some reading. the sifus here are so generous to share their wisdom with noob like us.
please appreciated it.

dont expect to be spoon feeding all the time



peace yo!!

I have no luck in bringing down nitrate to zero, i only manage to reduce to 5ppm in 2ft tank, but other smaller tank hanging around 20ppm . Thinking of using stem plant in breeder box to absorb nitrate but most plants sold are fert & pesticide contaminated.
Yes. you should test GH. Lime build-up , what is your tap water PH? or you have any limestone in tank?

the safest way to get a healthy plant is to get it from the fellow forumers..
maybe you can trade shrimps with them

how about those floating plants from garden?
i think we can easily get them for very cheap price. just that their roots are very annoying.
P.S.: i not sure if they put any pesticide in growing. that.

so far all Neocaridina Shrimps i have , shrimplets is transparent white when born and develop color after a weeks.
If you have an spot/dust algae infested glass like mine, you will easily spot them since they like to munch/hang on them.
the cutesiest shrimplets is crs/cbs & sulawesi shrimplets.

you mean water lettuce etc ? i notice they prefer clam water and load of light,
my tank not suit those, they normally melt, and ya the root is a mess cos when it shed it pollute the water.
so no luck growing them except duckweed, but as you know duckweed is a nuisance itself.

To detect pesticide/poison, i test every new plants with feeder shrimps first.

My trimming session is coming soon. i only dose BW fert.hehehe. dowan kah? can give you how many u want.got rotala green, rotala red, vietnam sp.

hehehe. just trade with berried fire red is ok to me. kih3. unsuccessful on rearing the shrimplets.huhu.coz of the lackness of knowledge. they all gone when i topup water. 20%. using RO water.maybe coz ph buffer kot. huhu.poor them. RIP.huhu

I must admit i very blur on plants, as in the case be cheated for java moss as xmoss for 1yrs ++.
Is those plants belong to Hornworts type? cos i read on net, Hornworts are supreme nitrate sucker. No need to plant them in soil, just let them hang around in breeder box or in tank will do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornwort

heheeh.. u still want berried shrimps... hahahah another grandpa wannabe. i have quite a number of
berried red cherry shrimps(not red fire) on another tank, but they look like giving birth soon.

This post has been edited by arrow: Jun 22 2012, 02:58 PM

don't worry, rotala also ammonia sucker. according to ahmad's encyclopedia hehehe.

dunno lor bro. but some people said that most of the stem plants are nitrate sucker.and also depending on the photosynthesis acivity. means, if the lighting is medium lighting for the tank, they need to use fert more to photosynthesis. so, they will suck the nitrate more.dunno my theory right or wrong.huhu

whatever plants that able to grow more than 1cm per day is ammonia/nitrate sucker to me. lol

rotala definitely sucker plant. 1 month become jurasic park already.


its 4pm...teatime!

arrgghhh~~!! more poison!!!