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SKF Aquatics Monthly Digest 14 June 2017


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Welcome to the latest edition of the SKF Aquatics newsletter, your monthly roundup of our favourite discussions and recommended reading.

Enjoy the newsletter and thanks for continuing to be part of the SKF Aquatics family.

Your SKF Aquatics Team

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Calcium bentonite.
Zebra
Hello,  Just wondering where people buy their calcium bentonite in bulk? Ive done tons of reading and research, so far I've found there's 4 main types of bentonite clay including sodium and…
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Yellow Neos? - Please I.D.
travellife
I think these two are neocaridina var. yellow, one is berried. I just purchased them recently without identification. I haven't had shrimp with an opaque carapace before. Is it normal for there to …
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Aquaone snail eliminator.
Zebra
Hello,  I replanted my little high tech planted nano tank recently and I'm sick of all the pest snails (bladder and pond snails, and those limpets) There's no livestock in the tank, only pl…
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Neocaridina eggs and babies under the microscope
@farmdee6
https://youtu.be/YxX8_WtoW8c An up close look at neocaridina at 10x under the microscope.      
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My new project awwww yeahhh.
Zebra
Hey hey hey, Hows things everyone? Ive been getting right back into shrimp in a major way now, Had a few days spare so I got around to re-sealing an old tank I had laying around and buildin…
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Quick cycle for new tanks.
Zebra
Hello, So I thought I'd do a quick write up on how to "quick cycle" a new tank. Please note: This is generally for emergency use and I'm not recommending people just do this as a standa…
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clear slime in tank
Chindy
hi guys a couple of weeks ago I put some boss baby powder in my tank and a couple of days later my java moss started getting covered in a clear slime. maybe its unrelated to the baby powder I thoug…
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Can anyone identify this plant please?
ShrimpSilly
Cheers thanks heaps if you know what it is found a very small amount in one location leaves are approximately 5 to 7 mil wide/round in aquarium fully emersed when found was half emmersed half out o…
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Feeding
ShrimpSilly
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Custom built tanks
revolutionhope
Warning - bit of a waffle ahead. I am in the process of organising quotes to build some aquariums to my specification and plan to go with standalone setups of around 70-90 litres with a single glass d…
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Air-driven sponge-filters with space for media
revolutionhope
Hey skfa, I'm trying to get some tips and feedback on how people find these newer style of sponge filters are doing.  I know there are at least a couple of types of them available in australia and I a…
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New Library Article - Live Fish Food Options and Culturing
NoGi
From the various topics, here on SKF Aquatics, you can see that there is a wealth of food options available for your fish. From flakes to pellets, wafers to granules, you won’t be short of variety …
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Back in da game yo.
Zebra
Hey everyone how's things? So I was on and off with shrimp the last 6 months or so while I was doing other things and getting into nano softwater fish, building tanks and saving money, now I've…
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Is a Banded Kuhli Loach Compatible
roscoeb
Hi A while ago I put a Banded Kuhli Loach (Pangio Kuhli) in my Nano Shrimp. My LFS  assured me it wouldn't touch the shrimp but would get rid of the  pond snails, of which I had a few. However…
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Shrimp developments
revolutionhope
Recently 2 of my green babaulti have become berried and so I thought I'd share some pics as these are not as common in the hobby as some. Also my new bluebolts are looking promising I have 2 berried …
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    • beanbag
      Update to say that after a few gravel vacs, front wall scrub, moss / floating plant trim, that the condition seems to have improved.  My current theory is that it is due to waste / debris management, where "stuff" like that brown mulm accumulates in the substrate and behind the HMF filters.  Maybe some tanks can somehow deal with it, but mine can't.  Also another experienced shrimper suggested that maybe those "shell bugs" don't just live on the shrimps but also in this debris.  Maybe this is the reason some tanks fail due to "old tank syndrome" where all they need is a good gravel vac? Also, I am guessing that plant trim helps too because now more of the nutrients and light go into growing algae instead of more plants? Well anyway for this tank I will try weekly water change and monthly gravel vac / plant trim.  For my next tank, I'm thinking of something like an under-gravel system where this mulm can fall down and I vac it out.
    • sdlTBfanUK
      Good to have an update and good to hear you are getting shrimplets, so hopefully your colony will continue and you may not get to the point where you have to cull some to stop over population. These type of shrimp only live 12 - 18 months so the adult deaths may be natural? If you have the time I would do weekly 25% water changes, adding the new water via a drip system and do some vacuuming clean of the substrate each week, even if only a different bit each week! See if that helps in a few months and if it does then stick with that regime? It should help reduce any build-ups that may be occuring!
    • beanbag
      Hello again, much belated update: The tank still has "cycles" of 1-2 month "good streaks" where everybody seems to be doing well, and then a bad streak where the short antenna problem shows up again, and a shrimp dies once every few days.  I am not sure what causes things to go bad, but usually over the course of a few days I will start to see more shrimp quietly standing on the HMF filter, and so I know something is wrong.  Since I am not "doing anything" besides the regular 1-2 week water changes, I just assume that something bad is building up.  Here's a list of things that I've tried that are supposed to be "can't hurt" but didn't prevent the problem either: Dose every other day with Shrimp Fit (very small dose, and the shrimp seem to like it) Sotching Oxydator Seachem Purigen to keep the nitrates lower Keeping the pH below 5.5 with peat Things that I don't do often, so could possibly "reset" the tank back to a good streak, are gravel vac and plant trim, so maybe time to try those again. One other problem I used to have was that sometimes a shrimp would suddenly stop eating with a full or partially full digestive tract that doesn't clear out, and then the shrimp will die within a few days.  I suspected it was one of the foods in my rotation - Shrimp Nature Infection, which contains a bunch of herbal plant things.  I've had this in my food rotation for a few years now and generally didn't seem to cause problems, but I removed it from the rotation anyway.  I don't have a lot of adult Golden Bees at this point so I can't really tell if it worked or not. Overall the tank is not too bad - during the good streaks occasionally a shrimp will get berried and hatch babies with a 33-50% survival rate.  So while there are fewer adults now, there are also a bunch of babies roaming around.  I guess this tank will stagger on, but I really do need to take the time to start up a new tank.  (or figure out the problem)
    • jayc
      If that is the offspring, then the parents are unlikely to be PRL. I tend to agree with you. There are very few PRLs in Australia. And any that claim to be needs to show proof. PRL genes have to start as PRL. CRS that breed true after x generations doesn't turn it into a PRL. Neither can a Taiwan bee shrimp turn into a PRL despite how ever many generations. I've never seen a PRL with that sort of red colour. I have on Red Wines and Red Shadows - Taiwan bee shrimps. So somewhere down the line one of your shrimp might have been mixed with Taiwan bees and is no longer PRL. It just tanks one shrimp to mess up the genes of a whole colony. 
    • sdlTBfanUK
      Sorry, missed this one somehow! The PRL look fantastic and the odd ones look part PRL and part Red wine/Red shadow in the colour. They are still very beautiful but ideally should be seperated to help keep the PRL clean if you can do that.  Nice clear photos!
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