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SKF Aquatics Monthly Digest 29 January 2018


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Monthly SKF Aquatics Newsletter:

Your monthly roundup of our favorite discussions and recommended reading.

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Plans for Australia Day
Baccus
What is everyones plans for Australia Day? I plan to do something very Australian and go exploring my local bush areas, you know the sometimes bitumen but mostly dirt roads that lead off to the side…
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Newbie questions to starting a tank
Robert42
Hi, I am a newbie to shrimp keeping and I have come here for some stability in information as to looking around the information of various fish forums vary so much. Some say RCS are easy and will t…
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white bloom ?
richiep
i have a 225ltr tank which as been running since early November, planted, ph 6.2 temp 22.8 tds 170, i put the first lot of shrimp in early january not had any problems, molting as normal and a few …
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Aldi selling powdered Kale and spirulina for DIY shrimp food
jayc
For those that are into DIY shrimp or fish food ... Aldi are selling powdered Kale and Spirulina on Wed 24th Jan. https://www.aldi.com.au/en/special-buys/special-buys-wed-24-january/wednesday-d…
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Shrimp in Planted Tanks
Jay_Walker
Hi gang, I was curious if there were any plants to specifically avoid in a planted tank, and if there was such a thing as having too many plants in the tank. I have started a nice little cube that h…
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Breeding
djplantsandfish
How hard is it to breed fighter fish love fish   Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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ID on these?? (photo fixed???)
Kajun_Kong
So I bought about 10 of these guys labeled as black sakura.. i don't think that's what they are. Does anyone have any ideas??
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Micro organisms?
She11kat
My tank looks like it full of marine snow. I am not sure if it's a good or bad thing. I also have 5 or 6 tiny white worms flailing about in the water, they are maybe 1cm at most. My tank is plants …
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cross breeding super tigers with TBs/CRS/CBS
samcha
So I have am curious as whether this can be done or not. I have heard that super tigers get bigger then usual and was wandering whether they can cross breed with taiwan bees or even crystal red/blac…
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Can Shrimp carry disease
Shirley
I have a ghost shrimp and Nerite snail that were in a tank with a Betta that had advanced Swim Bladder disease. They have been in a quarantine tank since December 28. Can they infect other fish or s…
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Oxydators
richiep
My oxydator A, as been in my tank 24hrs and I see no bubbles what so ever yet on you tube they show bubbles in their thousands. Do i have a problem oxydator? Or do some give off  bubbles and some d…
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Have put together a bunch of dirt cheap shrimp stuff.
The Tech Den
Its been a while since posting last but thought a new year and lets kick off with a bunch of gear ideal for SKF peps. Yes you still get your SKF discount off that too.. Here is the link....…
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Bacter AE possible issue?
Memphis118
Hello, I am new here, and new to shrimp keeping and have done a lot of research before setting up a Crystal red shrimp tank, and after watching a few videos online, some people said that we can…
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Happy New Year 2018!
cesar
Lot's of ups and a few downs, but now 2017 is over... 2018 is a year of great opportunity and wish the very best for you! May your tanks overflow with shrimp fry so you can send some my way…
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Shrimps in my Pond in Ecuador
cadoia
Hi All Im a foreigner living in Ecuador. I have my build pond in the garden around 10 meters long and 4 meters wide. Maybe 1.5 meters deep with shallow areas.  Lots of plants in there. Gupp…
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Is this a parasite?
cdaJiv
This RCS has white dots on either side of his head I Think I have read before that it is a parasite, I would like somebody’s outside opinion.   Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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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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