SKFAquatics Monthly Digest 28 June 2020

June 28, 2020

SKF newsletter is full of great new posts this month! We welcome all our new shrimp keepers!

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Latest Forum Posts

Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide:
arcticwolf 20 hours ago

Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and Breeding One of the more interesting freshwater snails is the Rabbit Snail. A Rabbit Snail is a peaceful, non-aggressive slow moving tank mate that…

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Bladder Snails Guide
arcticwolf 21 hours ago

Bladder Snail – Detailed Guide: Bladder snails are one of the most commonly found snails in the aquarium hobby. Most aquarists also consider them as Pest snails you need to avoid. Myself includ…

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Malaysian Trumpet Snail – Detailed Guide:
arcticwolf 22 hours ago

Malaysian Trumpet Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet, and Breeding Some lots of people do not like Malaysian Trumpet Snails. They consider them as Pest snails and want to remove them by any mea…

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Nerite Snails – Detailed Guide
arcticwolf 23 hours ago

Nerite Snails – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and Breeding The Nerite snails quickly became popular in the aquarium trade as both the saltwater and the freshwater species are pretty hardy and beca…

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Ramshorn Snails – Detailed Guide
arcticwolf Yesterday at 11:01 AM

Ramshorn Snails – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and Breeding Ramshorn snails (Planorbella duryi and Planorbarius corneus) are becoming an all-too familiar feature around tanks these days. Some aqu…

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Assassin Snail – Detailed Guide
arcticwolf Yesterday at 10:29 AM

ASSASSIN SNAIL: CARE, SIZE, DIET, FEEDING and feeding An Assassin Snail has become a popular freshwater snail to keep. Assassin Snails have a reputation of being able to help keep populati…

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How to Blanch Сucumbers and Zucchini the Right Way.
arcticwolf Friday at 06:07 PM

How to Blanch Сucumbers and Zucchini for Shrimp, Snails and Fish the Right Way. Today I am going to tell you how to prepare a cucumber for your fish, snails, and shrimp . Actually, you can do i…

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Everything about Feeding Dishes for Shrimp
arcticwolf Friday at 05:54 PM

It is pretty hard to say why there are still a lot of people who do not use them. Maybe that is because they do not see the benefit of feeding dishes or they simply used to throw food in their aqua…

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How to Remove Snails from a Shrimp Tank
arcticwolf Friday at 05:36 PM

Today I am going to talk about how to remove snails from a shrimp tank. They are the best friends for our shrimp and an excellent addition to the clean-up crew. I always advise to have them in a sh…

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How to Quarantine and Disinfect Aquarium Plants
arcticwolf Friday at 03:12 PM

I have been keeping planted tanks for over 30 yrs and there are certain things you learn the hard way to do with every new purchase before it goes in your tank... shrimp, fish plants At first, …

6 comments

Wild Moss Aquatarrerium
Submerged Thursday at 05:03 AM

Hi, Just after some thoughts on my little aquatarrerium, and perhaps suggestions for improvements/different types of mosses and lichens to try! Thanks ?

3 comments

What Soil for Taiwan Bees?
Goco Wednesday at 12:36 PM

Hello Community, what Soil do you guys keep for Taiwan Bees? I have Tropica Powdered Soil, and i cant seem to get my Baby Shrimps up. After 2 Weeks they die off over night. My Ph ist about 7. …

5 comments

Huddeled in corner
Candy Wednesday at 08:39 AM

So, I've set up my first ever shrimp tank. It has been cycled and all parameters were good...until I put in some cholla wood. I had boiled it and everything but over the course of a few days it gre…

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I'm not sure.......has my axalotyl had babies?
Spongy Tuesday at 11:40 AM

We have recently started feeding them different food, but noticed a load of these guys today after doing almost 100% water change.

4 comments

No filter Jarrarium
Submerged June 20

Hi! I've just started a YouTube channel, and my first video is of my 8 month old no filter Jarrarium. Nothing in-depth, more about the aesthetics...and the cherry shrimp ? Subscribe if you like it…

2 comments

Having a scud problem, need a patriot missle
Healingeagle June 20

Hello everyone! My primary reason I looked for a shrimp forum was because I'm having an issue with scuds! I paid for this pain in the ass problem, did it to myself. A few years back I was sold scud…

29 comments

Remineralized RO vs Well Water PH/GH/KH/TDS
jalbright June 18

I'm trying to wrap my head around the numbers I'm seeing and really understand what I should be looking at in terms of hardness and PH overall. We have a few small tanks and started with neocaridi…

7 comments

Pale Otos
SonoranStorm June 17

Hi All, Question my LFS is going curbside pick up RN with the Rona so i dont get a chance to go pick out the fish myself I got two otos and 5 Neon Tetras. They were drip-acclimated over a 2 hou…

4 comments

Do I need a heated tank in Australia?
Subtlefly June 14

Hi team! Another (dumb) question.. I live about 3 hrs drive (south) from the Tropic of Capricorn. Temps in Bundaberg might get down to 5 degrees a couple of times a year. Do I need a heat…

5 comments