Jump to content

bee shrimps with eggs


kms

Recommended Posts

Hope all goes well for you, what shrimps are you going to keep.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I am aiming for a similar mix as before of Taiwan Bees. Probably start with blue steel and blue bolts as they are fairly cheap from same place I got them last time. I have found someone selling red steel and ruby in the UK which are quite expensive, but luckily that isn't a problem I have, but I want to test the tank first with some cheaper ones. But anyway I'm not at that stage yet and after losing so may stunners last time I have lost a LOT of the enthusiasm I had, hopefully though that may return as I progress?

Simon

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I should of got some galaxy pinto, they had some red ones for about GBP 6, may be i'll return in the next few day and choose a few more. 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

With the ones you have just bought and all the babies you are getting in the other tank you probably have enough for now and you should probably give it a few weeks at least for everything to settle, especially in the new tank which has to adjust to having shrimps in it for the first time. Those new ones will probably breed readily as well of coarse!

Simon

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

18 hours ago, kms said:

I should of got some galaxy pinto, they had some red ones for about GBP 6, may be i'll return in the next few day and choose a few more. 

Oh Ooo!

That's the first symptom of Multi Tank Syndrome. :happy:

  • Like 1
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 minutes ago, jayc said:

Oh Ooo!

That's the first symptom of Multi Tank Syndrome. :happy:

I had that same thought last night!

And where are the new ones from Taiwan later in the year now going??

Simon

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Just a few more photo's to share. I just purchased a new canister filter Sun Sun HW-702B, I will need to get all the right size tubing before I can set it up.

wr105l.jpg

20k7qkh.jpg

2niqgn.jpg

1zg8gtu.jpg

Edited by kms
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

More great photos, good to see the shadow panda, hope they are all doing well? You get such fantastic colour ones where you are!

I did my reset tank today and removed lots of plants so it looks a little sparse. Anyway, I will check the ammonia/nitrite/nitrate tomorrow. TDS is 125 so spot on what I predicted using my spreadsheet. There were a lot of unhealthy plants! If the nitrates have dropped I may get a couple of new plants, and maybe even some shrimps next week??? Fingers crossed.............

Simon 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I live in Hong Kong, there are a few shop in hong kong where you can catch your own shrimp, and this it one of them, this is also one of the cheapest shop. in Hong Kong you can buy almost any shrimps

I friend told me about this shop, but this if the first time their.

 

I'm still deciding what plant to use , my be Fissidens fontanus, those Madagascar lace in the tank are just the leaves, I cut them from the old tank, they have overgrown the tank. but they have good biofilm and bacteria.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

update, I'm starting see free swimming CRS, so far I have spotted about 5 red CRS.

whether its 3rd or 4th batch, it doesn't matter  I happy I have babies.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I like the idea of catching your own shrimp at the shop, though the photos from the shop you attached, I would want them all................

More babies, your next problem may be 'too many' shrimps???

I ordered a few plants yesterday so they should arrive today so they can go into the shrimp tank. I have also ordered some nitrateminus with it so may see if just using a small amount (1ml) may get the nitrates down a bit, not 100^% decided on that yet, but will have it here in readiness in case I decide to experiment!

Simon

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

The problem with most shops in Hong Kong, a average CRS is sold for USD 3.50, but is you want to choose your own shrimp, you might have to pay an extra USD 7 on top, choosing your own shrimps, this include guppy, plates, tetra and other small fish will impose extra cost.

 

Those shrimp I got for USD 13 for 20 shrimps, is way below the average cost of shrimps sold in Hong Kong, it seems like they are mied wine red and CRS, you can see the red is much darker. 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

That is interesting, but I guess people picking their own will pick the better ones so it does make sense for the shop to charge extra for allowing people to do that. It is difficult to tell from a photo the true colour and some of the CRS in your photo did look more red than orange (normal crystal colour) so they could be hybrids I guess, but they were all beautiful and a bargain, they would have still been worth the normal USD3.50, thats about the equivalent of prices here but those of yours and the shop photo you sent are way better coloured generally! Hope the 2 shadow pandas are doing well?

The plants arrived and are in the tank, woohoo!

Simon

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Those two shadow pandas are do well, but i'm not sure about the wine red, they like to hid a few days and come out, then hide again, this morning I did see the red head wine red, but the other one, it was a few days ago when I did see it.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I can't remember, are the red wines on their own?

If they are with others then maybe they are berried, that usually makes them hide, especially near hatching time? Or moulting?

I will definitely keep my fingers and toes crossed they are both alright as they are stunning!

Simon

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

The mother red CRS, all the babies, and the 2 wine red are in the old tank, just added 4 bluebolts yesterday, whiles the new 20 CRS and blue shadows are in the new tank.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 blue bolts, you kept that quiet!!!!!!! Those will be what I start with as can get those easily and at a reasonable price here, though I expect (judging on the others you have) they probably won't be as high grade.

Hope you see them all today!

Simon

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

6 minutes ago, kms said:

I only got the blue bolts yesterday, cost me GBP10 for 4.

More bargains, I expect to pay GBP10 each and thought that was reasonable enough here?

Simon

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

In Hong Kong we have a street with over 40 shops from reptiles, fish, dog, cats, shrimps, and plants, everything a few minutes away, whiles we have all these shop, they are divided as up stair shops and street floor shop, most of the normal shops are street level, whiles the mid price and expensive stuff and up stairs shop (house convert to a shop). and many shops sell these fish and shrimps already pre packed at a slight cheap price than if you buy from a tank, just like the blue bolts, pre-packed is 5 for GBP 10, if you buy from a tank 4 for GBP 10, and shrimps in the up stairs shop can cost anything GBP200 or more.

 

I'll see if I can take a photo to give you an idea.

Edited by kms
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

update, some upsetting new, all shrimps except 3 has died in the new tank, as the water in the tank went upto 31 celcius, the other 3 was half dying, I put them into the old tank, and seem to be ok for now.

  • Sad 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well, what can I say, de ja vu, was it a heater malfunction or just ambient room temperature? I wouldn't hold out too much hope for the 3 survivors either if my experience was anything to go by - but I will keep my fingers crossed they survive!

Really sorry to hear the news and if anyone can feel your pain that would be me. Hopefully you can just remove the cooked shrimps and start again without having to go through the whole process of re-setting up the tank and cycling from scratch like I am?

Hope everything is going well with the old tank.

The shops sound similar to ours in old towns, they started as houses and then get divided to shops street level and basement and the upper floors are either offices or residential.

Simon

 

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

It's room temperature, during the past week Hong Kong has become an oven. I will get another water cooler before I start again. The 3 shrimps seems to be doing well for the past 11 hrs.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Sorry to hear that. 

Wow, the temperature must have been very hot for the water to get to 31degC.

 

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now

  • Join Our Community!

    Register today, ask questions and share your shrimp and fish tank experiences with us!

  • Must Read SKF Articles

  • Posts

    • 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!
×
×
  • Create New...