Jump to content

bozzy's 3 foot divided shrimp tank

bozzy

By bozzy
in Shrimp Tank Setup

 Share

Recommended Posts

bozzy Shrimp Enthusiast

bozzy

Posted
Posted

thaught id throw up some pics of my current shrimp tank.

the tank was one i bought cheap (ish) then divided and resealed. originally a bristlenose breeding tank. they have since changed tanks which freed it up as a selective breeding tank for my cherries (yellows one side and reds on the other)

i have a 4 foot tank which was a cull tank but i sold all the cull red cherries today and drained the tank ready for a bit of a rework (most probably split into 4 sections)

the 3 foot was a bit of a chuck together the other day using stuff from the 4 to get it going quick when i got my yellows

20140111_201937_zps01dd15cb.jpg

20140111_202111_zps1c985f83.jpg

and its current occupants

20140111_201957_zps46d206ce.jpg

20140111_202010_zps438497b3.jpg

20140111_202101_zpsfa69a88c.jpg

i appologise for the crappy camera phone pics. once the little guys grow a bit more ill get the slr out for some better pics

Link to comment
Share on other sites
BlueBolts Shrimp Guru

BlueBolts

Posted
Posted

Thanks for the thread. Looks great, I'm sure your colony of cherries will explode. I use to love duckweed, but realise, not in shrimp tanks, as it gets caught up it the nets etc...and now it's full on eradication !

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bozzy Shrimp Enthusiast

bozzy

Posted
  • Author
Posted

the colony of reds started with 20 low grade cherries. it was then more or less allowed to multiply freely untill i decided it would be nice to get another color as well and get some redder reds going. so out of the well over 100 reds i selected the best ones to breed from and swapped the rest for a few good yellows to add to my yellows.

now i need to find some additional good reds somewhere

i quite like the duckweed but do find it annoying when it gets stuck in the nets etc. the shrimp seem to love it though, they cling to the roots as it floats around the tank

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Squiggle Shrimp Guru

Squiggle

Posted
Posted

I have to agree that duckweed is incredibly annoying! :dejection: Looks like you have a pretty good setup there, I can see the beginnings of MTS(multi tank syndrome) forming, be careful cause before you know it you'll have ten tanks. :beer:

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bozzy Shrimp Enthusiast

bozzy

Posted
  • Author
Posted

unless i start putting tanks in the garage i cant see me physically getting more tanks. (theres currently 6 in the room now (7 if you count the fish tank sump as a tank) and a quarintine tank thats sitting empty on the verandah) so 10 tanks wouldnt be far off anyway :encouragement:

that being said i just did a bit of a move around and have just finnished (waiting for silicone on divider to dry now) dividing my 620t tank which is going to be my main cherry tank once its back up and running.

this tank (the divided 3 foot) is going back to being the bristlenose/fry tank. the 4 foot tank will likely get divided into a 4 segment shrimp tank.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bozzy Shrimp Enthusiast

bozzy

Posted
  • Author
Posted

i decided a nicer tank was in order for the shrimp so i divided the 620t and got some different moss.

left side is the yellows with peacockmoss and fissidens? (right at the back). the reds are on the right side with christmas moss. im looking forward to seeing how it grows

20140114_202400_zpse6a9410d.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bozzy Shrimp Enthusiast

bozzy

Posted
  • Author
Posted

having a look at the yellows this afternoon to make sure they were setteling in well and discovered one of the females is berried :yikes:

20140120_180752_zps998340c8.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Squiggle Shrimp Guru

Squiggle

Posted
Posted

WAHOO!! Gotta love finding berried girls, very cool dude! Definitely time for a happy dance! :happydance:

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bozzy Shrimp Enthusiast

bozzy

Posted
  • Author
Posted
WAHOO!! Gotta love finding berried girls' date=' very cool dude! Definitely time for a happy dance! :happydance:[/quote']

checked on them just before. i now have 4 berried females. time for super happy dance :happydance::happydance:

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Shrimp Aqua Shrimp Lover

Shrimp Aqua

Posted
Posted

Maybe if you are line breeding you could have a Line Dance!!!!!!!!! could be fun then we could all join in.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bozzy Shrimp Enthusiast

bozzy

Posted
  • Author
Posted

well it finally happened. the wife said it was time to reduce the ammount of tanks we have so i decided to move some of the fish around, divide the 4 foot tank into 3 sections.

the 2 foot cube houses all my fish and the 3 foot tank now has my breeding bristlenoses in it (which in all likleyhood will eventually become another shrimp tank)

20140127_140618_zps5fb2d14c.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bozzy Shrimp Enthusiast

bozzy

Posted
  • Author
Posted

it sux but ill be able to sneak a couple of small tanks onto/under the stands that i already have later on.

if i could figure out how to insulate the tanks i could put a rack in the garage but its tin walls and no insulation so not likely going to happen

anyway onto the pics. centre section has nothing but substrate and moss in there. the water is cloudy as i just threw water in there with no real reguard for keeping everything pretty. i still need to figure out what is going to reside in there.

feeding ditch looks like its going to work quite well

20140127_201338_zps7ea95b2a.jpg

20140127_201344_zps838cfbd5.jpg

20140127_201348_zps9d68f36e.jpg

20140127_205450_zpsd0b2a4d5.jpg

20140127_205638_zps5c595542.jpg

20140127_205646_zpsdf318da3.jpg

20140127_205732_zps3a0a4589.jpg

20140127_212430_zps29709334.jpg

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
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Join Our Community!

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

  • Must Read SKF Articles

    Shrimp Disease and Treatment
    Tibee, Taitbee, Pinto, Mischling, F1, F2

  • Tropical Fish Forum
    Discus Breeding Guide
    Discus Disease and Treatment Guide

  • Posts

    • sdlTBfanUK
      Shrimp molting before eggs are hatched

      By sdlTBfanUK · Posted

      Thats a great photo, beautiful blue bolt, I hope it survived the molt without dropping the eggs! I think I can just about see some black dots (eyes) on the central egg but can't be 100% sure. I used to (and plan to again) do weekly water change of 10-15% but if you do too large or quick (not drip in new water) that would likely trigger a molt. What KH are they in, my new setup is sitting at (and refusing to budge) KH 3 and PH 7.5 so I may have to settle for neocaridina shrimp this time as opposed to the caridina I want, though not looking/deciding just yet, give the tank a bit more of a run in! Tap water here starts at kH 14, tds 320, when filtered goes to KH 0 and PH 6 but when put in the tank keeps going to KH3 and PH 7.5 despite 3 x 50% water changes???? You may be at 'maximum capacity' with only 20L tank especially if the tank is a cube type rather than shallow type?
    • beanbag
      Shrimp molting before eggs are hatched

      By beanbag · Posted

      Right now this tank only has blue bolts and golden bee (red bolts?).  The eggs start off all brown, but at the end, I notice that some are kind of a clear pink-ish color.  So I don't know if that is the egg color of dud or golden bee.  Picture of shrimp only about half hour before molting. The water is always RO + remineralizer, so it should be ok. The tank seems to still be on a "good streak" ever since I started the regimen of weekly water change, monthly gravel vac and plant trim.  The point being to keep the amount of waste low and removing moss / floating plants so that the nitrates go towards growing algae.  At one point, I had three berried females, but only netted about half dozen babies by the end, due to this early molting problem.  There might be about 30-40 shrimp total in 5 gallons, but still very few full-sized adults.
    • ngoomie
      Shrimp and meds containing gentian violet

      By ngoomie · Posted

      Alright, I've done a bit more research on gentian violet's cancer-causing potential but I haven't yet done research on malachite green's to compare. But from reading the California propositon 65 document about GV (North Americans incl. some Canadians will recognize this as the law that causes some products they buy to be labelled with "known to the state of California to cause cancer", including the exact product I bought) it seems that the risk of cancer is related to internal use, either injection or ingestion. Speaking of ingestion, I think GV bans mainly relate to its use in treating fish/shrimp/etc. which are intended for human consumption, because of the above. And in countries where GV isn't banned for this purpose, it does seem to get used on various species of shrimp without causing any issue for the shrimp themselves (at least enough so for shrimp farming purposes). See the following: In February, the FDA Began Rejecting Imported Shrimp for Gentian Violet and Chloramphenicol (2022 article by Southern Shrimp Alliance) FDA Starts New Calendar Year by Refusing Antibiotic-Contaminated Shrimp from Three BAP-Certified Indian Processors and Adding a BAP-Certified Vietnamese Processor to Import Alert (2024 article by Southern Shrimp Alliance) Southern Shrimp Alliance and some other organizations have tons of other articles in this vein, but I'd be here for a while and would end up writing an absolutely massive post if I were to link every instance I found of articles mentioning shrimp shipments with gentian violet and/or leucogentian violet registering as contaminants. That being said, I know shrimp farmed for consumption and dwarf shrimp are often somewhat distantly related (in fact, the one time a shrimp's species name is listed that I can see, it's the prawn sp. Macrobrachium rosenbergii, who at best occupies the same infraorder as Neocaridina davidi but nothing nearer), but this at least gives a slightly better way of guessing whether it will be safe for aquarium dwarf shrimp or not than my bladder snail anecdote from the OP.
    • sdlTBfanUK
      Shrimp molting before eggs are hatched

      By sdlTBfanUK · Posted

      I would hazard a guess that perhaps those eggs were unfertilized and thereby unviable? Did the eggs change colour, usually yellow to grey as the yolks used up, or any eyes in the eggs. Is your water ok, using RO remineralised and the parameters in range, as I have heard others say that if the water isn't good it can 'force' a molt? How is it going overall, do you have a good size colony in the tank, you may have reached 'maximum occupancy' as a tank can only support so many occupants.
    • beanbag
      Shrimp molting before eggs are hatched

      By beanbag · Posted

      Hello folks,  The current problem I am having is that my Taiwan bee shrimp are molting before all their eggs have hatched.  Often the shrimp keep the eggs for 40+ days.  During that time, they lose about half or so, either due to dropping or duds or whatever.  Shortly before molting they look to have about a dozen left, and then they molt with about half a dozen eggs still on the shell.  Then the other shirmp will come and eat the shell.  These last few times, I have been getting around 0-3 surviving babies per batch.  I figure I can make the eggs hatch faster by raising the water temperature more (currently around 68F, which is already a few degrees higher than I used to keep it) or make the shrimp grow slower by feeding them less (protein).  Currently I feed Shrimp King complete every other day, and also a small dab of Shrimp Fit alternating days.  Maybe I can start alternating with more vegetable food like mulberry?  or just decrease the amount of food?
×
×
  • Create New...