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SKF Aquatics Monthly Digest 20 July 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.

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Amateur hour selective breeding...
Kingo
So.. i have recently been self inducted to the shrimp world, after being lucky enough to purchase some quality crystal mischlings from a local legend, they are yet to breed. Still so much to le…
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Newbie, of course..
Boneless
Hi everyone! First let me start off by saying that I have impromptu decided to take on a task I've never done before, that being raising shrimp. I also am adding on the task of starting my very fir…
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Are these sea rocks safe for a freshwater shrimp tank
ImBoB
Hello i'm currently on vacation at the sea.  I have 2 tanks currently devoted to snowball shrimp and blue dreams. I would like to start setting up my 100L tank (freshwater) for another kind of …
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Sötching Oxydator Mini Reveiw.
Zebra
Hello,  Recently I bought a couple of Sötching oxydators from NewBreed Aquatics closing down sale, As I've been wanting one for awhile but didn't quite have to cash to fork out. These sold …
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16w mini heater from Asia.
Zebra
Hello, Awhile back I ordered a cheap little heater from eBay, $13 free shipping, it arrived today.  It says "explosion proof" Carbon fibre 230v 16w preset 25c -/+ 1c. Came with an Asian plu…
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About to start my first tank....
Tayloss
HI All, Really new member from the UK, so please forgive me if some of the questions have been answered before! I am not new to fish keeping and have a successful freshwater (55l) & marine (170…
28 comments

TDS meter
Cheza
Hi everyone I would like some advice please, which TDS meters are good to buy? What price range should I be looking at for reliability and ease of use? Your advice will be greatly appreciated.  Sent f…
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Water for Neocaridina Davidi and CRS/CBS
Mabber
Hi guys :)  my name is Mauro and i'm from Italy, sorry for my bad english... try to understand me pls. I'm not new in shrimp keeping but i have some problems with Neos. My water paramet…
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New tank ph too low
Cheza
Hi everyone I was after a bit of help I've sent up a new tank to keep bb and kk pandas.I've used Benibachi mineral soil, RO remineralised with Bee Shrimp mineral GH+, and HOB filter with stainless ste…
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40L High tech Aquascape from beginning to maturity
Zebra
Hello, Ive noticed I had some equipment laying around that needed to be put to better use, and after settling in my half a dozen or so new shrimp colonies and other tanks, I figure I'll get to …
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changing Asian power plug.
Zebra
Hello, Do you ever find great products online we don't otherwise have access to here in Australia? I find power adaptors tend to make a very poor unstable connection, and adding a new plug …
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Topaqua heater
Zebra
Hello, I bought these heaters cheap on eBay about a month back and they arrived today. These are Topaqua brand 50w glass "explosion proof" aquarium heaters- 220-250v 50-60hz. Made with …
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Hello and newbie shrimp keeper
Mapsyd
Hi every one and so glad I found this forum. Let me just say I have had RCS in the past but am going a new directions with my little aquarium and would love your opinions on how to move forward as …
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Need to get the females saddled
larrymull
Hi Guys, Trust everyone is well. I have forgotten how to get my females saddled/berried again in winter. The females have produced a lot of offspring but have gone quiet since about May. I am u…
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Photobucket changes
Madmerv
I'm sure some of you are aware of the changes to Photobucket. All photos that have been linked via photobucket are now not accessible. They have moved to a paid subscription model to try and ex…
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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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