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Ok part 2 More shrimps Some plants and misc things I'll probably drop by again. If there is anything new I'll post it up. I'll also ask the hobbyist I met if I could post sound of the pictures of the PRL he has. They were amazing.

Been a while since i posted photos so thought i would spend some time in front of the tank, unfortunately photos are only taken on my phone so quality not the best. A good chunk of my colony, most seem to be female Some of my blue cherrys, will be selling what i have once summer is over. More CRS can see some of the quality difference My colony has definitely grown alot you can see the red and white throughout the tank. Excuse my breeder box which keeps sliding into the tank,

Great looking tank wot fan. Some good advice coming together in this thread. For the sake of clarity for readers and since nobody else has said it, I will. Cycled ammonia will show up as nitrite on your tests - right now the ammonia level has only dropped because of the regular large water changes. I wouldn't expect to see the ammonia level reduced to 0 due to biological cycling for 3-4 weeks. By 6 weeks you might hope for the nitrite to be reducing to nitrate too. Adding bacteria from another tank can help speed things up if the water conditions match closely, but at a week in it's made no difference yet. On the one hand, your regular 50% water changes probably help to leach organics from the substrate faster. On the other, they're probably slowing down the total cycle time by reducing the ammonia concentration. Your shrimp will eat that stuff from the wood once they go in. I wouldn't disturb it.

I dropped by Aquarist Chamber to stock up on some goodies for myself and I thought the members here may enjoy some pictures. Please excuse the picture quality I only had my IPad. Entry lol Counter with some stock & shrimp tanks Shrimp pictures again sorry for the quality. I totally stuffed PRL pictures! Thanks to Alvin for allowing me to take these pictures. My iPad is about to die so ill load these and add more tomorrow. Lol I planned on staying for 30 mins but ended up shrimp staring for 4 hours, my wife thought I got kidnapped lol. Chatted to a local shrimpkeeper and got invited for lunch. Got some tips from Alvin himself too. Great day out. Hope your guys enjoy these pics as much as I do lol

the egg hatch after 32 days it's been 3 days, i spot 2 bkk, some red mosura and hino pattern taitibe arghhh i want more blue pinto

Ineke I have a funny story about bettas and shrimp. Last time I had tanks I had a few bettas and some cherries. I was under the impression that bettas would definitely eat shrimp, so I kept them separated. (They certainly chowed down on my ramshorns!). Anyway, I was trying to breed my cherries for stronger colour and reluctantly decided that culling the cherries that were clear would best be done by feeding them to the bettas. I know a lot of breeders feed their fish culls to oscars etc. So I braced myself and put the clearest in with one of my betta males, and hurried away so I didn't have to watch the horrifying scene unfold. When I was doing my nightly check on my tanks, I saw the cherry happily feeding on the moss and the betta ignoring it completely. They lived together after that. So much for culling! The whole process was so distressing I decided I didn't have the heart for that type of culling anyway. I used to feed mine wrigglers and daphnia, they loved it. You're right about their personalities, they do learn to recognise different humans and they can be so engaging.

Got no room or resources for more whilst we live here. I do have a professionally divided 4ftr and cabinet in the garage which has 2 sections linked with holes and the 3rd section separated for other water conditions. It will be sold when we move house as i have no plans for it. My tanks is over filtered in my opinion. Aside from the 3 dual sponge filters and the nitrate soda stream filter i have a 2000 ltr p/hr eheim pump assisting pumping water into my Aquis1250 canister which then flows into an Aquis 600 canister with removed impeller then into chiller and back into tank. I just like feeling safe with the filters lol, thats the other reason i added the plants :)

yeah they're hardy but just because they can be kept in jars doesnt mean they should be...

Yes mate, they are very hardy. I kept some once and one of them jumped out of his tank and I found him about 4m away on the floor. His body was just damp and I saw him breathing still so I put him back in the tank. He lived. They breath air directly as we do and that's why they can be kept in jars

Good advice Kizshrimp. Wot Fan, you can also turn up the heat to 80degF as well. Bacterial multiply faster the warmer it is. Can you get your hands on a pack of Mosura BT-9?

A nice bottle of Aussie Wine. Wine is expensive in Singapore. I wanted to bring along an SKF polo shirt, but couldn't organise myself in time before I had to fly. Disciple if you drop by again, get pics of the filtration system. Knowing Alvin, he probably uses Eheim canister filters for each tank in the sales/display area. The intake pipe is connected to an underground filter. This means no prefilter is required, since the gravel and underground filter serves as a prefilter. No risk of sucking up shrimps thru the gravel!! Not sure what he would use in the quarantine area though. Maybe the same.

Awesome pics mate.

Both methods have their pros and cons. Sponge is easier to clean by just wringing and rinsing in clean water, even if it clogs quicker. I used aqua scaping thongs to slide it off the filter intake, minimising hands in the tank.

The issue with using sponge filters over your filter intake is it will clog up a lot quicker so if your not aware of it then it will greatly restrict your canisters flow rate. Then your going to have to be putting your hands in your tank alot more to remove it and clean it leaving it the intake open in the process. Personally i would recommend going for the SS Mesh cover you wont regret it, i used to do the sponge method and would never go back for the above reason.

Yea they are connected to a UGF. This is the set up used in the sales area but there is a different set up in the quarantine area.