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The Shrimp Thing, All About Shrimp - Neocaridina & Others
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Oct 2 2013, 09:17 AM
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It'll be messed up if mod merges. Edit: Added tank photo. My tiny office tank. Increased population and added a floating plant to cope (hopefully) with nitrate removal. The end goal is to have a self sustaining tank like my collegue  This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 2 2013, 11:40 AM
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Oct 2 2013, 02:40 PM
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QUOTE(GTBlackIce @ Oct 2 2013, 02:14 PM) Nice! Finally I could see a shrimp in there!  Best of luck in getting it self sustaining  I detect a sarcastic tone there It's more than one in the pic but crappy camera. One observation though, when I bought the latest batch... they look relatively decent in the LFS but looking at it in the bag and even until this morning, most of them are quite transparent. Some even look closer to rilis than cherries. Now it seems some of the color have came back? Is this even possible?
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Oct 2 2013, 05:37 PM
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QUOTE(lily64my @ Oct 2 2013, 05:33 PM) Send some to me...i have 2ft tank... lol I was wondering how many tanks do you have anyways?
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Oct 2 2013, 05:40 PM
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QUOTE(arrow @ Oct 2 2013, 05:38 PM) 30++ or 300++ ? i once keep 500++ Malaya in an 50cm 57L tank, no problem at all. It depend on your filtration power and provide more o2 when shrimp population is high, o2 not only for the shrimps but also for the beneficial bacteria in the filter to utilize, healthy and stronger BB to handle the increased bio-load. Any alternatives that doesn't require an airpump? They're too noisy (bubbly) and water splashes for the office environment.
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Oct 2 2013, 06:19 PM
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QUOTE(arrow @ Oct 2 2013, 05:51 PM) In fact, have, this , Provide O2 with no airpump. Can't find in malaysia, only in singapore. anyway know where to get in Malaysia, let me know. Link here -> http://www.aquariumoxygenator.com/Thanks.. will try to find QUOTE(varialmctwist @ Oct 2 2013, 05:52 PM) ctrl with valve? still bubbly? Bcos my tank very tiny. Control valve and ceramic airstone still got splash
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Oct 3 2013, 09:49 AM
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QUOTE(youliang @ Oct 2 2013, 10:50 PM) I'm officially launching war with the seed shrimps in my tank. really getting too many already. now manually filtering the "bugs" out and they don't seem to be getting lesser, the next day, a lot back. lol. How to do that?
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Oct 3 2013, 01:51 PM
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QUOTE(youliang @ Oct 3 2013, 01:46 PM)  siphon the bugs that I can see into a container.. then pour the water though the white filter gauze. luckily the gauze actually manage to trap these bugs. then pour it back into the tank. Very time consuming but managed to reduce quite a lot..till the next day when they reproduce again.. and the cycle continues  I tried this during my nematode infestation... continued doing it daily for a week. Caught a gazillion of them but one day don't do.... population goes back to normal.
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Oct 3 2013, 03:17 PM
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QUOTE(youliang @ Oct 3 2013, 02:07 PM) then how?  the only way is to restart the tank?  I restarted but for the wrong reason.... my tank got WMD attacked when office was spraying disinfectant. End up killing every non-plant living organism in the tank.
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Oct 3 2013, 03:42 PM
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QUOTE(lily64my @ Oct 3 2013, 03:28 PM) What you do every weekend now? without aircond? Now I turn on the tank fan before leaving the office.... put on my auto top-off contraption and that's it. Weather getting colder here now so I think this weekend no need to turn on liao.
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Oct 3 2013, 04:26 PM
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Do you guys vacuum your gravel/substrate or just leave the shrimp poo to sink and decompose?
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Oct 3 2013, 04:37 PM
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QUOTE(GTBlackIce @ Oct 3 2013, 04:35 PM) I don't vacuum the soil coz if I do the soil gets vacuumed too... Just let nature takes it's course... since shrimp bioloads are small... the poop even smaller. Still need it to generate BB Btw, did you have any shrimp casualty today as you think you would? Hope not.  Thanks. Must not be too paranoid then. So far so good for the tank newbies... all accounted for + 1 successful molt.
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Oct 4 2013, 10:06 AM
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Do you guys leave the molts in your tank indefinitely or remove them after a while.
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Oct 4 2013, 10:49 AM
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If more than 48 hours and its still there.. keep or remove the residue?
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Oct 4 2013, 02:05 PM
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Haiyah... I thought this time can have zero casualties when adding new shrimps but one just expired in front of my eyes. It was motionless between rocks for the whole morning then just fell sideways. Was barely alive when I picked it up.
So frustrating, I use drip method to acclimatize for almost 6 hour still like that. I even tested the difference between the water and its just like ~20 TDS different niah... other perimeters same. The bag water got even higher nitrate levels.
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Oct 4 2013, 05:14 PM
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QUOTE(GTBlackIce @ Oct 4 2013, 03:06 PM) Haha... I witnessed similar thing just recently on the CRS. At least yours was barely alive when it was picked up... mine was a total goner...  Wow... you acclimate for a very long time even for RCS!  My max thus far was only 3hrs. But of course if I happen to get a more sensitive species I'd likely to acclimate longer. Also doing drip method @ +/-1dps For me I think sometimes it depends on luck as well... the shrimp may not have been so strong even @ lfs or wherever we buy it. Just tough luck we got a weak one(s) sometimes. Same for my fire reds... got 10... 1 died the next day but the rest are doing well still. Only on malayans did I not encounter any casualty *touch wood* No choice.. noob like me have to do what it takes to minimize loss. Already loss waaaaay too many shrimps. But you're right about the LFS thing. Between me and my collegues, we find that the shrimps from those chainstore high volume fish shops have a higher death rate than those ah pek shop. But the ah pek shop's quality quite terrible.
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Oct 4 2013, 05:24 PM
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QUOTE(GTBlackIce @ Oct 4 2013, 11:51 AM) You must've been feeding your shrimps too good they don't show much interest in it There's no harm in letting it be bro... chill...chill... doubt any harm would come from that small shell  Speaking of which, I'm only feeding half the "recommended dosage" on the label and saturday/sundays are puasa days. QUOTE(GTBlackIce @ Oct 4 2013, 05:18 PM) That makes 2 noobs here then...  Yeah, and apart from that... different tanks have different water parameters. So what works on one may not work for all. Oh well... can't help it since we're into this hobby... we chose one that's not easy to rear...  Yeah... that's why its so  :
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Oct 4 2013, 10:08 PM
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QUOTE(arrow @ Oct 4 2013, 08:45 PM) 6 hour is way too long. 1-2 is enough unless tds different too wide. For prolong acclimating consider supply o2 to the shrimp be acclimated. The safer is get shrimp that are already 2 week been in the lfs tank. Any early casautly already occur. What left is mostly the strongest. However shrimp just be snapped too fast by keeper like us. Last time I don't do so long but casualties alot. Btw.. this is my nearby chainstore lfs fire red tank... this is only half the tank.
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Oct 4 2013, 10:37 PM
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QUOTE(lily64my @ Oct 4 2013, 10:20 PM) U only have 2 shrimps...nobody else eating them...lol Had Already add liao!  Got more than 2 This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 4 2013, 10:46 PM
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Oct 5 2013, 01:42 AM
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QUOTE(shafique2511 @ Oct 5 2013, 01:40 AM) where is this shop locate..all LFS at seremban they don't sell bcos no demand..need to go to kl.. Taiwan... sorry.
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Oct 5 2013, 02:13 AM
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QUOTE(shafique2511 @ Oct 5 2013, 02:08 AM) i thought at malaysia..hahaha..so you are from taiwan or working there? Been living here for 10 years .
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