journal JonX- Shrimp Tank

[JonX]

This is what happens when I don't work. I take pictures and photos of the shrimp.

Looks like a female. Hope to see some berries soon.

Video of her.

http://youtu.be/6pdTsmDG_jI

[2OFUS]

Nice shrimp jonny

[JonX]

Nice shrimp jonny

Cheers. They came from a top breeder. One day soon they will breed for me too.

[emboli]

Great Shrimp Johnny!

Those yellows look like they are having a FEAST haha

[JonX]

Emboli the yellows are doing very well. I am going to put the 2 snow whites I have left in with the yellows. One is heavily saddled, the other is coming up to size and I think shes a female too. So I got 3 females off you. One committed suicide and crawled out with berries. She escaped with her boyfriend without a trace.

Im still chasing a male for the two I have left. If I cant then they will breed with sss cbs males that I already have -I would rather breed them back with snow white.

Lonely girl

[JonX]

I now have a pair of blue rilli shrimp. Thanks for that :/ .They are in the 3rd divison with the CBS

Girl

[CNgo2006]

Pair of Red Rubees would have been great but these aren't bad as well, very nice actually. At least you didn't end up with a pair of red cherries lol!

[Dean]

nice one lol, i call first dibs on the red rilli babies :)

[JonX]

So as you have all heard my shrimp did the crazy sexy dance and as a result my flower head is berried. I haven't seen my SS no entry so I suspect she is berried aswell.

*UPDATE 27 Feb - SS no entry has re appeared with berries.

Blue velvet female has nice saddle developed.

So to this date I have 4 berried females.

female male

C grade CBS x snow white or SS CBS

SSS grade CRS x SS or SSS CRS

SS grade CBS x SSS CBS

All the plants and shrimp are growing and seem healthy. I don't do water changes only top up with some rain water and the TDS is at 130.

Here are updated pictures.

Full tank shot

Middle CRS division

1st division.

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[OzShrimp]

Looking good mate. How do u go with chiller? I decommissioned my divided 4 ft.cause my chiller would cause too much flow

[JonX]

Looking good mate. How do u go with chiller? I decommissioned my divided 4 ft.cause my chiller would cause too much flow

Thanks oz. The chiller is one of the reasons I have no deaths in the tank. It keeps the water temperature constantly 23.5 degrees.

My cube without the chiller has a temperature range of 23 to 29 degrees depending on the ambient weather. This fluctuation would definitely kill the high grades in my experience and opinion. I have natives in the cube and they are a bit more tolerant to temperature changes.

The divided tank is only 76 liters and I run it with the Jbj Antarctica chiller with an Eheim Proffessional 2 which is rated for a 650 liter tank and has a pump output of 1000 plus liters an hour. The returning flow comes out like a strong hose turned on.

I reduce this flow by wrapping the spray bar with white wool sponge media. The intake connected to a sponge which further reduces the flow and adds the benefits of being a pre filter and producing microfilm for the shrimp to eat.

[JonX]

Video: Some of my females.

saddled snow white

SSS grade CRS flower head

SS grade CBS crown head

C grade CBS

http://youtu.be/j3N5nAqu1xk

[JonX]

Mum

Young dad

Snow White and the Seven Yellows - witnessed her moult 10 seconds later the little snow white did the dirty dance on her. Now I know I have a 100% pair.

[OzShrimp]

very smart method in terms of wrapping the spray bar.

Thats the reason i didnt use my divided tank :( kinda wish i did now cause i would of saved $120 lol

[JonX]

Berried update.

[JonX]

Finally 3 months of being saddled, she's berried. It was a hard cause to get a partner for her. My first male disappeared without a trace with the other berried female, her replacement was not good enough quality and no one else answered my call for a quality snow white male. I was so tempted to breed her with my SSS CBS.

While on the phone last night I saw her moult and within 10 seconds the other little snow white with her did the harlem shake with her. This morning I see berries.

February has been a good month for me. I have 5 berried crystal shrimp. :congratulatory::congratulatory:

First time mum

stud male

[BlueBolts]

Great work. Tank & shrimps looks healthy & happy.

[Heavyd]

Great news mate! Now it's going to be a long month waiting....

[ineke]

Well done Jonx now the waiting begins.!!!

[CNgo2006]

Congratulations Bro! You must be a snake as this year is the year of the snake! Hope she has many many more!

[JonX]

February, the start of the Chinese New Year has been very good to me.

There has been a lot of hours of staring into the tank and these are my first crystal shrimp berries. I am very happy.

[JonX]

Went to Aquaristic today, picked up 10 pygmy cory's. There's still 2 or 3 left at the store, I feel slack, I'm going to go back tomorrow and get the rest of them.

They are tiny, adult shrimp are bigger than them. I am keeping them in the nano cube with the natives. They swim around in groups and every so often one makes a dash to the surface for air. They have found the feeding dish and like to hang around in their now. =)

Not the best colour or patterned cory, but very cute and good characteristics.

They are so tiny- 10 doesn't look like much.

Side view of the cube. Need to get a black background, maybe thinking about removing the staurogen at the front and replacing with HC.

[Squiggle]

Very cool looking Cory's dude, love the Pygmy's :encouragement:

[Heavyd]

Those Cory's are adorable! I'm going to have to get some soon.

[JonX]

I've had a C02 set up for a while but have never set it up. On Sunday I rigged it up to my nano cube. Never tried it before, I wonder how it goes.

I also put my Up Aqua Z series on the cube.

It's now stocked with 10 pygmy corys, 10 tiny galaxy rasboras, 5 gold pencil fish and 2 peppermint catfish. They are very fun to watch. There are also various native shrimp species.

Here's a quick video:

http://youtu.be/HPRxaXZhINE