lol..not enough sauce??

Congratulations on the brave moved. But its 1st class hotel ok lah.

normal 2ft should be around 60L water, you can use formula tank length x tank width x tank height in cm /1000 after minus out substrate and tank top blank space.
That mean if you have 5cm soil thick and 3 cm blank space on tank top, total you minus 8cm from tank height.

1g no-planaria treat 50L water for first dose , then half dose on 2nd day and 1/4 dose on third day. (treatment took 3 days).
Think i give you around 2 to 4g.

all these new purchase will cost you around RM0.4k.
OEBT'S get the pregnant one if any, buy 1 free 20 if survive.

This post has been edited by arrow: Oct 21 2013, 02:50 PM

Damn stone lah...one by one they went and move it outside.

[/@arrow] No planaria works on nematodes? Kinda regret I didn't opt for the nuke option earlier. Now catching nematodes that's slowly appearing. Today already caught 4.

Haha... you and your compliments, Sis... thanks much Hope the shrimps feel the same way as you do...

She's still quite scared to use that bro...needs more guarantee that it doesn't affect her 'babies'

Err... thankfully it was lesser than that. OEBTs were the most expensive of the lot per head-wise.

Ahh... if only I could get a berried female but unfortunately couldn't as there were only 2 berried females in the tank and I was not to get it Anyway, these 2 (as usual) are pioneer commandos deployed. If all goes well *may* just get another pair. Did the same for all the shrimps I have... start with a 'pioneer' batch... all is OK for a week or so... then add more.

Perhaps it's just my luck, but seems each batch of shrimp I got there would be 1 casualty (apart from the Malayan...1 kamikaze case after >1mth)... let's hope this time 'buang suay' already with those 'sacrificial shrimps'...

Can't wait to be home tonight and see how the new 'babies' are doing...

unfortunately no, Nematodes are immune to most treatment, they exist in all tank anyway. They getting less if you control your feeding and vacuum the substrate but you can't eliminating them.
Some fish may eat them if they float in the water. Be sure to check if it is planaria? planaria got triangle head and normally gliding around.

Shrimps just too fragile to avoid casualty, at least you able to bring them home alive, i once bought 10 sulawesi shrimp at RM18 each , died in bag halfway home

Very hardworking shrimps you got there bro....

No space for me to put a feeding dish... so usually just 'target-feed' i.e using the tweezer to drop the food where I wanted it... but still get moved around anyway...


Oh my bro... that seriously hurts!!! 180 bucks gone just like that without the chance to enjoy viewing it in your tank? Sheesh...

You got it from Sulawesi itself or?

Well, at least I don't feel that bad about my casualties now... hehe...

Was thinking the same, is there a better way to transport shrimps back from shop instead of the usual tar pau style?

I do that too.. using tweezers to drop at a particular place but it ends up all over the place. With a small tank, all those food pieces and shrimp poo can really accumulate fast.

i have use all kind of dish/bowl to house the food, at the end of day, food still everywhere, so i give up, nowdays i just drop the food on top the ketapang leave.

No other way to transfer shrimp, just make sure you go watch how they pack your shrimp, some LFS staff really inexperience in handling shrimps, you will be shock on seeing how rough they handle and pack the shrimp. Also some will just pluck some moss/plant leaf from other tank and put into the shrimp bag, those moss/plant may have pesticide/fert that will harm the shrimp, so make sure you insist they use moss/plant from the shrimp tank or
new filter floss.

This post has been edited by arrow: Oct 21 2013, 06:31 PM

U can change 100% andmakesure dnt disturb the soil...put a bowl or something n pour water into it. Slowly

Tie to a thread...lol

Yup, still end up elsewhere nearby but still good enough for mine as there's not many space for them to move around the food

Well at least with good filtration you don't have to worry much about those poop.

Yeah...seen before how some inexperienced ppl pack it...really give you heart attack & wonder if what you bought can survive the trip home.

Well...am glad to inform that all is fine in my tank *thank goodness* however...witness something earlier I would like to seek confirmation - a female shrimp swam up and 'fell down'...i was like "don't tell me it's a goner..." but luckily it was just molting. When it was half way molting...a male went on top of it. Once it was done molting the female just swam away quickly. So what I'd like to know is...was what I witnessed the quick mating or another shrimp being aggressive to another when it's molting?

Edit: OK here's a pic of one of the OEBTs:



This post has been edited by GTBlackIce: Oct 21 2013, 10:09 PM

Good...can become grandpa soon...lol

You just witness their mating scene, shrimp mate right after they molt. It is highly believe the just molt soft body allow the male to penetrate the female easily.

I really hope so too!!!

Ahh OK. Glad to know it was the mating session as it freaked me out seeing how 'aggresive' it was that time. Thought mating would occur after molting and not during it.

Well, let's see if I can remember which female was it that molted yesterday and have new batch of eggs on it. Thanks for the clarification bro!

I was thinkin that since shrimps like stability. Would it make sense to just top up with RO water and only do water changes once tds increase to a certain level. What do you guys and gal think?

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This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 22 2013, 08:15 PM

Hi arrow...my test cherry shrimp still alive in the 1sr cycled tank. I want to move the yellow golden back in this tank. Any advise how to move them?