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SKFAquatics Monthly Digest 08 December 2018


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Happy Holidays! Our final SKF newsletter of 2018 and it's full of new posts from around the world. SKF wishes you the very best to you and your loved ones this holiday season and a great new year!

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Rip Mr Diamond
jojowhisky
Hi all,Its a sad day. Lost one of my crystal which i named mr diamond, just assumed he is a male because of his size(newbie).Prior to his death i saw a larger crystal "fighting" with him, they had the…
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How do you feed powdered food
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Hello everyone, im sorry for the lame stupid question but i guess if its something i dont know, i just got to ask!  I just bought some spirulina powder from the store. Because its gonna make the shrim…
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Crystal red shrimp keep dying. help please
supermansteve32
Hi, I have Crystal red shrimp and I successfully raised and bred them in a 15 gallon tank but after I moved them to a larger 60 gallon tank they all slowly die off.  I started off with the 30 I had …
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Strange female
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I've had the girl since I started my shrimp tank. Any clue as to what might have created this gem.  
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Colour of baby shrimps
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Hi everyone, Spotted an "off" colour amongst the fire red babies in my tank last night.Is this a common occurance? Looks to be light blue amdist the moss and dark blue on the substrate?  First batch o…
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"Vacation food" didn't work as expected
beanbag
Hello folks, To prepare for a vacation, I did a four day test run.  I put in a pellet of "snowflake" (soy husk) food as well as a boiled leaf of mulberry.  Here's what happened: day 1: The …
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What are all the reasons shrimp become inactive?
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Hello folks, I have a problem with shrimp being inactive.  Maybe it would be useful to have a thread where we can just start listing all the reasons so that it can be a checklist for others.  I…
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Birth control for CRS colony?
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Hello folks, If I get a batch of CRS for a small tank, is there a way for me to prevent the shrimp from having babies?  I want the colony to only get up to a certain size and then stop.  I don'…
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Ghost Shrimp Turned White... help!
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I’ve had the ghost shrimp for at least 3 months. About 2 months ago 4 of the 6 turned white. I’ve been waiting for them to die (assuming muscle necrosis), but they haven’t. One of the white ladies …
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BASICS for Shrimp keeping video
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Was this bacterial infection, or something else?
beanbag
Hello folks, Sadly, I lost another shrimp today.  I'll try to make this not TLDR, but still provide info. When I first got this guy, it was pretty active for the first 2-3 weeks and gradual…
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"Vacation food" didn't work as expected
beanbag
Hello folks, To prepare for a vacation, I did a four day test run.  I put in a pellet of "snowflake" (soy husk) food as well as a boiled leaf of mulberry.  Here's what happened: day 1: The …
7 comments

What am I doing wrong?
Onyxiss
Hey peeps, So I'm a newbie shrimp owner (literally like a week ago) and just looking for some information on things I'm doing wrong or not doing at all that I should be.  I have a 30L tank …
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Ohaple's Beginner Shrimp Tanks
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Hello, I have recently started working towards keeping shrimp. We keep other terrestrial invertebrates (isopods, mantises, and cockroaches) and thought that shrimp would pose an interesting new…
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Crystal red shrimp keep dying. help please
supermansteve32
Hi, I have Crystal red shrimp and I successfully raised and bred them in a 15 gallon tank but after I moved them to a larger 60 gallon tank they all slowly die off.  I started off with the 30 I had …
10 comments

My Crystal Reds Tank Video
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Hey guys! I'm new to the forum and also to shrimpkeeping. Started with the hobby about 3 months ago and really enjoying it! Really wanted to make a shrimp series of the progress of my tanks…
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Galaxy pinto with TB crossbreed?
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How to fix my CO2 diffuser
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How do you feed powdered food
jojowhisky
Hello everyone, im sorry for the lame stupid question but i guess if its something i dont know, i just got to ask!  I just bought some spirulina powder from the store. Because its gonna make the shrim…
10 comments

Rip Mr Diamond
jojowhisky
Hi all,Its a sad day. Lost one of my crystal which i named mr diamond, just assumed he is a male because of his size(newbie).Prior to his death i saw a larger crystal "fighting" with him, they had the…
63 comments

BASICS for Shrimp keeping video
sdlTBfanUK
This is a very good video on the basics if you are new to shrimps. It is called 'How to breed shrimp', not sure why as it is generally everything and a very good  and clear video guide?. …
3 comments

What are all the reasons shrimp become inactive?
beanbag
Hello folks, I have a problem with shrimp being inactive.  Maybe it would be useful to have a thread where we can just start listing all the reasons so that it can be a checklist for others.  I…
6 comments

Strange female
Freddie
I've had the girl since I started my shrimp tank. Any clue as to what might have created this gem.  
9 comments

Ghost Shrimp Turned White... help!
Elizabeth
I’ve had the ghost shrimp for at least 3 months. About 2 months ago 4 of the 6 turned white. I’ve been waiting for them to die (assuming muscle necrosis), but they haven’t. One of the white ladies …
4 comments

Birth control for CRS colony?
beanbag
Hello folks, If I get a batch of CRS for a small tank, is there a way for me to prevent the shrimp from having babies?  I want the colony to only get up to a certain size and then stop.  I don'…
6 comments

GH too high
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Hi, so last night I saw on of my Sakura shrimp struggling to molt. I didn't know how I could help so I let it be.   Now I woke up this morning to 3 dead shrimp all looking like they were tr…
2 comments

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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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