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[Vicko]

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[Vicko]

5 hours ago, Vicko said:

Shrimp Keepers Forum welcomes Vicko.

Please feel free to browse around and get to know others. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

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regards,
skfadmin

Just a new starter in the shrimp keeping hobby. 

Currently got an old 300 lt tank with about 40 neons and 20 yellow cherry shrimp.

[jayc]

Welcome to SKF Aquatics.

[sdlTBfanUK]

Wow, thats a big tank (for shrimps anyway), my fish tank is only 30 litres and has 5 neons, 5 ember tetras, 2 endler guppies ??? Red cherry shrimp, ??? assassin snails. It gets very neglected as I have been concentrating on a Taiwan Bee tank which is FAR more complicated.

It has been running for about 5 years and I am at the stage where about half the shrimps are wild colour and half are still red. The biggest problem then is you can't really see the brown ones as well as the reds so it is very difficult to fish them out and there is a LOT of moss and plants in there for them to hide in, so they just stay in there and do their thing. Assassin snails breed like crazy but I give those to a friend to feed to his puffer.

Some years ago I gave a friend a load of my red cherries and he dumped them in his tank (about 360L) thinking they would all be food for his fish (neither of us thought any would survive), but he still has loads in his tank from that date to-date so he is well pleased. I am sure that the fish must eat some/many as he has some big fish but they obviously don't get them all?

Hope you enjoy the forum!

Simon

[Vicko]

9 hours ago, sdlTBfanUK said:

Wow, thats a big tank (for shrimps anyway), my fish tank is only 30 litres and has 5 neons, 5 ember tetras, 2 endler guppies ??? Red cherry shrimp, ??? assassin snails. It gets very neglected as I have been concentrating on a Taiwan Bee tank which is FAR more complicated.

It has been running for about 5 years and I am at the stage where about half the shrimps are wild colour and half are still red. The biggest problem then is you can't really see the brown ones as well as the reds so it is very difficult to fish them out and there is a LOT of moss and plants in there for them to hide in, so they just stay in there and do their thing. Assassin snails breed like crazy but I give those to a friend to feed to his puffer.

Some years ago I gave a friend a load of my red cherries and he dumped them in his tank (about 360L) thinking they would all be food for his fish (neither of us thought any would survive), but he still has loads in his tank from that date to-date so he is well pleased. I am sure that the fish must eat some/many as he has some big fish but they obviously don't get them all?

Hope you enjoy the forum!

Simon

Thanks Simon,

The tank is a hand me down my uncle used to own that I inherited along with an albino Oscar about 15 years ago.

the shrimp seem to love it and my hope was that with so much room the fish won’t decimate the hatchlings as much got a nice collection of driftwood, weeping moss, Phoenix moss and corkscrew Val.

 

if I can lower the resolution I’ll upload an image.

 

[jayc]

Hopefully that Oscar isn't in that tank anymore. The shrimp won't stand a chance with an oscar. Neons maybe, as they are mid water swimmers. But an Oscar would just go to town with shrimp.

[Vicko]

Haha no Oscar , sadly it decided to jump out of the tank one day when no one was at home.

 

Cant seem to get the tank picture to upload keep getting a -200 error, ill work it out later.

Edited December 23, 2018 by Vicko