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Time to do a cull on my blue gene red rili colony. I have been meaning to do this for months but cant find takers in perth. This first lot of 60 + shrimp are going to my brother. I think I'll have atleast another two lots like this. So if any beginners want some good starter shrimp dont hesitant to pm me. I will be happy to give them away. If you dont want freebies and want to pay I'll take $2 a shrimp (actually ill be happy with whatever) Ill wait a week before i cull the rest. Unfortunately i cant post interstate until i get some foam boxes.

Hello all, I'm new here in the forum, having just registered and made an introduction yesterday. As promised, here are some current photos of my tank. I intend to keep a journal to document the growth and expansion of my blue velvet colony. My current tank parameters are: PH: 7.4 - I have tried to lower this to 7.2 with PH down but a day after seemingly successfully lowering the PH it shoots back up Water: Tap water treated with Seachem Prime Temperture: ~25°C Ammonia: 0ppm - I was struggling with high ammonia a few weeks ago but there was nothing in the tank except for some shrimp snowflakes (I left it in for a week, maybe that's why?). Interested to know if this happens to others here? Nititrite: 0ppm Nitrate: 10ppm KH: 100ppm GH: 100ppm Tank and Equipment: - Upgraded to Fluval Edge 46L lighting (42 LEDs instead of 21) - AquaOne 25w heater - Sochting Oxydator Mini - Eden 501 cannister filter with an extra bag of carbon (replaced HOB filter that came with the tank) - Aquael 3w UV sterilizer Fauna: - 13 Blue Velvet Shrimps - 1 Riffle Shrimp Flora: - Hairgrass (Elocharis Acicularis) - Flame Moss (Taxiphyllum sp.) - Phoenix Moss (Fissidens Fontanus) Without further ado, some photos of my tank: This is the front view of my tank: From the top down: Some of my blue velvets in the tank: My setup: Thank you for looking and feel free to leave comments! Best regards, Howard

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Hi Will Explained it in the PM roughly, will write and article about it and most will be OFFENDED as it all come down to water quality not water make up so much, Crystal and Cherry types are conditioned to poorer aquarium water conditions being line breed for a long time, new species of any aquatic critter are more touchy to pollutants and over feeding= poorer water quality. As most shrimp including Crystal and Cherry types come from higher up creeks the water has less or no NO3 and phosphates as well as other pollutants we can not measure, water changes, not over crowding, not mixing species to make more pollutants same as over crowding and feeding sparingly is the key, they are not use to the high processed foods we offer YET, KISS keep it simple stupid. I keep the food to leaves, a bit of various flakes at times, timber and Algae wafers, water change heaps and thats about it, water quality stays in the soft range under 100 on Bens TDS meeter and PH ranges 6.8 to 7.2, tap water comes out up here at PH7.2 and around 60 to 70 on TDS meeter, if I don't keep Coral in the water the PH will drop to 6.8ish and with coral it stays 7.2ish, more coral the higher the PH will go that one is a trial and error and really the coral only apply's to really soft tap or starting water. I have had many conversations with people that have lost the Zebs and it always come back to poor water, if I say that I can sense the wall go up, not me I am a good keeper and my other shrimp are OK, yep the other shrimp are use to pollutants in aquariums and we all have them I sure do, but in the Zebra tanks/ponds I keep the feed down and the water change up, its hard where the water is not good, so the solution is keep the number down and keep the feeding down, feeding being the main one. There is a number of new species up here that will be tough for a while but worthy of persistence, Ben got to see a few on the week end just past. In a nut shell the longer aquatic critters are breed in thanks the more we are selecting Aquarium conditioned animals, unknowing that we are doing it, history shows well critters that were hard years ago are easy now, Bristle nose are a classic 35 years ago few people could breed them, now any one can, L number cats are the same 15 years ago hard now easier, I am sure I read Crystal types were hard to breed years ago. Neon Tetras were a tricky one 50 years ago now they are easy, it goes on and on a bit like I do. As a guide colour is a sign that the water is not to there liking, as we can not see sick animals like we can in fish, we have to use colour as a tell tail, the first sigh a Zeb will give of being stressed is they turn blue in place of black then zebras will loose colour if not happy with there water and long term exposure to that will stress them and bring on sick animals then dead and I like many have few ideas about shrimp diseases knowing when it to late and the battle is lost. Blue in a lot of native shrimp at least is a stress sign, Ben and I caught some Malanda shrimp on Sunday and near the end of the day there was a couple of really bright blue males in the bucket, when dropped in a tank they lost the blue and went clear in 15 minutes, just as a side not I never acclimatise shrimp just drop the in the tanks, I did not say that!!! Time to stop raving and write a article Bob

a quick update of my tank. > bought HC and planted them. i know they might not be ideal for gravel and mineralized topsoil, but i just hope these plants do carpet. > also bought cabombas for the back so my shrimpies have more plants to hide in. > changed my filter to an Ista F100 hang on sponge filter here's an updated pic of my tank uhm, pardon the background, as i've put my nanotank above my ref. picture of the berried one i bought from the LFS (really hope she carries those eggs to term). hope i get shrimplets in 3 weeks or less cute shrimp couple? sharing the SANYU shrimp vitality feeds i bought from the LFS my feeder minibowl, which I hope will attract more attention in the long run. shrimpies prefer to hang back in my cabombas. uhm, may have picked up some unwelcome stragglers with my HC purchase. are they good to share the tank with my shrimpies? need help identifying them too please I do need help with a few questions: 1. I've bought the API PH tester, and I've settled on using Catappa or Indian Almond Leaves as I've read they help lower down the PH, but it's been 10 days, and PH's still at 7.8 - 8. Do I need to buy something else to lower down the PH? 2. I'm seeing several saddled shrimpets, but I can't seem to get them in the mood to "do their thing". I've done a 20% water change 3 days ago, but no dice. Any suggestions to get them in the mood to mate? 3. Do female shrimpies hide more than the males? I've found that my males are high and mighty strolling about the tank, but my beautiful red shrimpets are hiding underneath the stones more often. 4. Heard HC needs CO2 and am considering dosing flourish excel. But with saddled and berried shrimpets, I'm hesitant though. Any thoughts? 5. My tank's water is greenish brown, what with the Indian Almond Leaves. Since they're not lowering the PH as I planned, I'm planning to remove them. Should this clear my tank water? I'd love to take pictures of my tank with clearer water and share the love to my non-shrimp tank loving friends who've called me weird for my new hobby, lol. I really can't wait for my shrimplets. Once again, any suggestions or feedback is most welcome!

Yes neos are very slow to breed at low ph.Even though you don't have a sump with your tanks there are other ways of introducing aragonite media to your tanks very cheaply to bring up your ph to your required value. When we catch up we can discus this.Need to think outside the square. Cheers Mark.

you took the words right out of my mouth Disciple!!!! Come on we want more!!!!

In taptalk under search for a forum - search for SKF ( See the screenshot above? You should get a similar list. Pick the SKF (DevTest) forum.

Ok, super excited now. I have our new logo, just getting some tweaks. I’ll launch it with the new site so stay tuned. Most of the feedback taken on board and I can say that: New logo looks nothing like any of the logos in this thread There are no mascot/cartoon character style shrimps Is modern and sleek Hopefully people will like it as much as I do.

Good luck man. Cant go wrong following Ineke's advise.

Nice gesture! ?

Noted on the advice. Great stuff there. For sure, my tank has plenty of hiding spots as it is overwhelmed with moss. I have since removed majority of the snails. Will monitor and update again in couple of weeks time. Cheers.

that is really really good advice ineke!!

I'm in.

Good Stuff Ineke. Love seeing your shrimp.

I have always wanted to get a blue marron for a pet :( one of the pet shops in sydney had them for sale at one stage

This is a pond I built with others for the 2012 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. In it I used two pumps and one pressurised filter. We added some huge goldfish 25-30cm for affect. One 25000 litre per hour pump was dedicated to running the fake rock waterfall at the end and split off to feed into the top pond. The split off was approx 15000 litres to the waterfall and 10000 litres to the top pond. This allowed the top pond to fill quick enough so that it would create a small waterfall into the creek area and it then went down to a second small waterfall before entering the bottom pond. We used railway sleepers as a bridge. The second pump was a 12000 litre per hour pump that then feed out to the pressurised filter that was part buried and partially hidden by plants. It returned back to the creek under the bridge to help with the flow in the bottom half of the creek. Both pumps were located on opposite sides of the bottom pond and 38mm flexi hose was used on the outlets. The total turn over in this pond was 37000 LPH. This pond and display was built in 10 days and had to be fully removed after the show in 5 days. It was a lot of work. The stone used was pink quartz and river pebble in the creek and ponds as well as the beach areas. The plants used were Liriope, (Used to hide Filter and around beach area) tropical blue waterlillies, standard lillies, Bacopa, amazon queen (Taro Plant), acoras, Dwarf payrus, Egyptian Papyrus, varigated rush and val was used in the creek to help show the water flowing through the creek. The bottom pond had two ware spouts fitted that run from a seperate pump and the LED lights in the water spouts changed colours. These were also able to be adjusted in length and pattern via a remote control.