You may add bacteria in the water...its sold in a sachet from LFS.

tenkiu for suggesting but I oredi added water from my other tank when started . Will c how it goes first.

thanks

Wow... they seem to be thriving.

I am looking Opae Ula (Hawaii Red Shrimp). Anyone know where can I get them at Malaysia especially at Selayang/Kepong/Damasara/Kuala Lumpur? Your help is appreciated.

No lfs selling them in kl as far as I know. Most don't know what they are . You best bet is in Singapore and online.
their really beautiful though

Thank you for the reply. I have been looking for them for some time now. When I was working at Honolulu, Hawaii few years back, one of my Hawaiian's colleague make an aquarium/tank for me using a plastic cookie jar containing about 10 Hawaii Red Shrimps. My kids love to look at them cause they are small, cute and they swim around doing they own thing. Maintenance was very low too. I changed a bit of the water once a month and feed them a quarter piece of cooked rice once a week. I placed it beside a window so that it could get few hours of morning sun so that some algae could grow. Before we move back to Malaysia, I gave the whole tank to my daughter's teacher as a gift to her. I didn't bring it back to Malaysia cause I scared I will have issue with custom. That is why I am looking for them.

hey guys, interested in a cheap second hand aquarium for shrimps? please pm me, i'll send u the link to my garage sales :-D

This post has been edited by Yozaa: Feb 18 2014, 03:41 PM

I've read that it said to be the smallest shrimp in the world. I think they are salt water shrimp not fresh water , very hardy n easy maintenance. The only site I know selling is petshrimp.com.

i have 8 of them, got them from a friends who smuggle them from Japan in a small bottle.
i transferred them a big 2 gallon tank, one berried, but now they all hide inside the stone cave, with algae around tank, they hardly come out
to feed on the food i give them.



Their previous small home.

Not full salt water but brackish water with salinity around 1.016.(like half marine strength)

ic sifu.
its really awsome to hv the world tiniest shrimp

This post has been edited by femgoo2005: Feb 18 2014, 09:02 PM

double posted

This post has been edited by femgoo2005: Feb 18 2014, 09:00 PM

Oh wah...u got hidden treasure ehhh!!

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I recall that you've used JBL's novo prawn food before. Do you feed the amount as per instructions ?

i use base on the number of shrimp in the tank , normally one to two small pellet for each shrimp enough.

You feed daily right?

depend , sometime alternate day. it depend on the level of algae and biofilm in the tank, if your tank filter is running, there should be constant supply of biofilm.

Do you guys still do water change when you have berried shrimps?

Some updates.

I re-scaped my tank and more importantly, I changed my previously overkill LED light to one of those RGB type LED's. Really worth the money. It's way dimmer (controllable with the remote control) and at the same time, I can see the shrimps clearly since can tune the color to highlight red. Being dimmer, my shrimps don't hide as much anymore

Unfortunately the photos don't show the effect