journal My racks and shrimp collection

[alvinchan80]

Hi Alvin' date=' great shrimp! Hopefully i'll have a few kk's in the future....Wanted to ask, I'm going to japan/singapore in Jan, are there any cool aquarium stores worth visiting in Singapore?[/quote']Well.. I can take a day off to bring you around to different LFS.. And bring you to a nice place called Alvin's Shrimp Room.. Hahaha.. :pOsaka having shrimp competition in Dec.. But honestly it's quite hard to find a good shop selling shrimp stuffs, most of their stuffs are concentrated at certain shops only..On comparison, Japan's products are more expensive then Singapore... :(

[shrimpsider]

We perhaps should not spam Alvin's thread, but open a new one :P Be prepared that especially Japan is really expansive in shrimp!

Osaka:

aquatailors osaka (a must see)

lowkeys osaka

nature field

t aqua

see public photos here:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=296022280487478&set=a.295362440553462.68518.100002391255116&type=3&theater

Tokyo:

._. better don't try

[alvinchan80]

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[shrimpsider]

Now I miss LFS shopping.. Come to think of it' date=' it has been a long time since I visited LFS.. Haha..[/quote']

same here, once you have all tanks full withshrimp, you do not need to shop so often :p wanted to add another link for Osaka: http://www.aqua-mart.jp/osaka/redbeeshrimp/ enjoy!

[Guest Benny]

We perhaps should not spam Alvin's thread' date=' but open a new one :P [/quote']

Thanks Imke. We are looking into it ;)

@Alvin - No problems with off-topic for now as it benefits everyone :encouragement:

[jrc693]

Wow thats for the helps guys! So many replies and so much info!

Alvin thats extremely generous of you! but I will sadly have to decline lol im not going to be there for long and I g2 visit some family and also going with my GF who i doubt will want to go around seeing shrimp all day :P as much as i'd like to haha. but i'd love to check out yours if your home one day! you can teach me a thing or two.

but wow I thought stuff would be cheaper..

Thanks very much for the help sorry if the threads gone a bit off topic haha

[alvinchan80]

Wow thats for the helps guys! So many replies and so much info!

Alvin thats extremely generous of you! but I will sadly have to decline lol im not going to be there for long and I g2 visit some family and also going with my GF who i doubt will want to go around seeing shrimp all day :P as much as i'd like to haha. but i'd love to check out yours if your home one day! you can teach me a thing or two.

but wow I thought stuff would be cheaper..

Thanks very much for the help sorry if the threads gone a bit off topic haha

Just pm me before you drop by.. Visiting me can be just an hour or so.. (Not really so much things to see.. Haha) Or can be in the evening for some booze and chit chat session.. :)

[alvinchan80]

It's their nightly feeding in my tanks....

The best species of all which breed non stop.. Hahaha.. Seed shrimps...

[fishmosy]

Fantastic tanks and shrimp Alvin. Is that a homemade moving bed filter with K1 media in the last series of photos?

[alvinchan80]

Fantastic tanks and shrimp Alvin. Is that a homemade moving bed filter with K1 media in the last series of photos?

Thanks for your compliments bro fishmosy...

That is a DIY holder for K1 media... So there is a place where I fit the air tube at the bottle cap area.. The cap is cut with a mesh covering to prevent shrimplets from being sucked in.. Holes made on the base of the bottle for bubbles to escape..

[fzha8447]

seed shrimp loves sponge filter.

[fishmosy]

That is a DIY holder for K1 media... So there is a place where I fit the air tube at the bottle cap area.. The cap is cut with a mesh covering to prevent shrimplets from being sucked in.. Holes made on the base of the bottle for bubbles to escape..

Nice, thinking of making my own. What size mesh do you use to keep the shrimp out?

[alvinchan80]

seed shrimp loves sponge filter.

Yes! They love to colonize there! Seed shrimps love sponge filter but I love sponge filter but not seed shrimps.. Hahaha..

Nice' date=' thinking of making my own. What size mesh do you use to keep the shrimp out?[/quote']I just pick the smallest available hole size.. But make sure that the mesh is marine grade (501 if not wrong), buy the wrong mesh and they start to tarnish..

[fishmosy]

So you use stainless steel mesh, not nylon. Does it block up quickly?

Do you need to clean the filter much?

[alvinchan80]

So you use stainless steel mesh' date=' not nylon. Does it block up quickly?

Do you need to clean the filter much?[/quote']

It hasn't block for months.. (Touchwood) haha.. If it does, I just use a toothbrush to give it a brush and its 'sucking' again.. :p

I don't clean my filters, all I do is either I wash the white wool with tank water or just change the white wool... By the way, my filter only have bio-media and 1 piece of white wool.. :)

[fishmosy]

Is the white wool in the moving bed filter?

Could you get a full picture of the moving bed filter so we can see how you've made it?

[alvinchan80]

Is the white wool in the moving bed filter?

Could you get a full picture of the moving bed filter so we can see how you've made it?

No.. No wool.. Inside just the K1 media..

Let me try to take a photo of it these few days.. :)

[alvinchan80]

Here you are fishmosy and everyone else..

Hope this helps:

This is the top of the bottle.. Cap with mesh on the inside

The bottle attached with suctions to hold on the glass and a hole for the air tube

Lastly the holes at the base of the bottle for the air to escape

Sorry for the 'dirty' bottle as it was removed from my tank recently.. Haha

[fishmosy]

Thanks Alvin, that is great. I now have a much better idea of what you've done.

Does it require much air flow to get the K1 media moving?

[alvinchan80]

Thanks Alvin' date=' that is great. I now have a much better idea of what you've done.

Does it require much air flow to get the K1 media moving?[/quote']

Nope... Very little actually...

[fishmosy]

Excellent. Well done Alvin, thanks for the quick answers.

[alvinchan80]

A female Blue Bolt...

She is with her 'friends'... Hahaha

[Sprae]

Wow! That's an amazingly blue Blue Bolt! Good work! :encouragement:

[tropo]

My god where to start( maybe changing my drooled up shirt) I am so envious. Well done Alvin:encouragement:. You have a awesome setup and your stock, well there absolutely beautiful.

First time I have seen this thread as I'm a newby but absolutely fascinated. I hope one day I can have a setup and stock as good as yours. Keep the pics and updates coming.

cheers

Guy

[alvinchan80]

Wow! That's an amazingly blue Blue Bolt! Good work! :encouragement:

Thank you bro!!! Hope I will have more of these deep intense blue ones coming up from her... Hehe..

My god where to start( maybe changing my drooled up shirt) I am so envious. Well done Alvin:encouragement:. You have a awesome setup and your stock' date=' well there absolutely beautiful.First time I have seen this thread as I'm a newby but absolutely fascinated. I hope one day I can have a setup and stock as good as yours. Keep the pics and updates coming.cheersGuy[/quote']Thank you so much for the compliments... I will keep up and try to breed out better shrimps as well as refine my Pure Red and Pure Black Lines too...I am in the midst of revamping a new racking.. I have decommissioned the old sump rack.. And right now in the going thru a waiting period for the new rack, tanks to arrive..This was the old rackNow it's emptyEquipments for the new rack (occupying the space temporary until rack and tanks comes