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So i decided a long time ago to buy this, but never got around to doing anything about it, until now Its a water filter and cooler, and i decided to convert it into my shrimp cooler for this summer ive just tested it as much as i can, until my power supply decided to blow XD running a 2 amp pump with a 1 amp power supply doesnt last to long (20 mins XD) temp in the cooler got to about 8c, pump water temp was 18.8c before i started the pump, ran the pump for 20 mins and got to 17.8 and thats was about 10L of water, not the fastest of things but all i want is to drop 3c in summer This is the part where the water is cooled now ive coiled up the pipe inside, i did pipe because i didnt know what the coating was inside (black coating) This is it closed with the inlet and outlet ready it fitting in its foam case it completely in its foam case this is where the magic happens, to keep it short, there is a hot and cold side when you add power to it, the side you can see now is the hot side, and whats sweet about it, when you cool the hot side, the cold side gets even colder this is the fan to make the hot side cooler so the cold side get freezing!! its getting all back together now, its all inside ready to be sealed up here is the finished product! you can see the pump and you can see the water shooting out, this will end up going to my tank This is the almost finished product next to my tank with the pump all connected so now all i need to do it have it turn on and off by its self, ill be hooking up a temp controller to make the pump turn on and off, and cool the tank! ill post that when ever i get around to doing it anyway hope you enjoyed

Certainly not meant as an insult. I used the word to mean "custom mod". And yes, I think your mod is awesome and deserving of some sort of award.

Just wondering if anyone has their setup in a shed? Like im talking colorbond or whatever. If so what have u done to insulate from the heat and cold to save money and allow ur shrimp to live happily? I just want to know if it can be done without costing a fortune as i been looking at houses for sale and a few have sheds.

Good afternoon my fellow Shrimp Keepers, I hope you are all having a great weekend, as promised the 2nd installment of the SKF interview. Today I have one of our own, Paul Minnet. He is a very well respected member of the shrimp keeping community and is a admin for a couple of the most popular shrimp related facebook groups in Australia and Overseas when he isn't to busy with his own business or his admin duties he is looking after his massive 21 sectioned RACK!!! SKF - Hi Paul can you please tell us a little about yourself? PM - I have had aquariums on and off most of my life have had at least one tank continuously now for over 25 years. In that time I have kept most types of fish. I discovered the joys of shrimp a few years ago while looking for an algae clean up crew like most of us started out with some reasonable red cherry and the rest is history. Question 1 - What is your weekly/monthly maintenance schedule? PM - I mostly do weekly Water changes 20% roughly on all tanks I clean up duckweed plants etc. every couple of weeks. clean filters every couple of months. Question 2 - What is your favorite additive/products? PM - I don’t really have a favourite additive I have tried a few different additives and booster products but generally feel there is no replacement for a healthy tank. Question 3 - What is your worst shrimp experience? PM - My worst experience is my recent disaster from rushing stocking the new rack and not allowing it time to establish and settle properly in the haste I caused too much instability and crashed the system and lost all my tb misch and tibee. Question 4 - What are the biggest myths in Shrimp Keeping? PM - The biggest myth I think is that shrimp require a small specific range of conditions to do well I have found this to be very untrue and that you can keep most shrimp in a wide range of conditions as long as the tank has a healthy biosphere. Question 5 - Unusual things that you use with your shrimps? PM - I feed dried anchovy fillets at times as well as dried shitake mushrooms which is probably a little odd. Question 6 - Can you give us tips on selective breeding? And how to improve the quality of our shrimps? PM - When selective breeding don’t always look for the best shrimp occasionally you can do better with the ugly duckling. ultimately but you are looking for desirable traits in the shrimp be it colour size vigour etc. Question 7 - What do you think will be the next big thing in shrimp? Will it come from crosses or line breeding pure species? PM - Shrimp genetics is still somewhat of a mystery I think there is a lot of interesting varieties being produced from taitibee lines. There is still a lot of room for new lines to come out of keeping pure lines in both cherry and bees still a few colours to be achieved. Question 8 - How do you mineralize and what WP do you aim for? PM - I use two mineral products primarily seachem equilibrium for gh and seachem reef builder for kh and ph I aim for a ball park range of 6.8-7.2 ph gh 3-5 kh 1-2 tds 160-190 using rain water. Question 9 - What food enhances the welling being of shrimps and increase shrimplets survival rates? PM - A varied diet of fresh foods like peas zucchini etc combined with a mic of commercial shrimp foods as well as things like rolled oats dried shitake mushroom etc. I find helpful to supplement there main food source from the tank environment. baby survival I think depends more on the tanks biosphere than it does on food you supply. Question 10 - How often do you cull? PM - I cull regularly picking out the rejects as you see them. I pick a grade point that is the minimum standard I want for the colony and reject everything that doesn’t meet that level. Question 11 - What is your funniest shrimp experience? PM - One of the more amusing moments would have been recently trying to take photos of the shrimp in the top tank of the rack I was standing on a bench seat with the camera and tripod setup on a second seat. I stepped back to focus for the pic the chair I was standing on tipped back nearly knocking me and the dslr camera and tripod onto the floor would of been very funny to watch but I wasn’t amused and haven’t tried it again since. I wanted say on behalf of SKF and its members, Thank you. Lastly Paul has also agreed to become a member of the admin on our facebook group "Shrimp Keepers Community".

I have done in the past and will be doing a shed soon. There is lots of options for insulation, pink bats, poly boxes cut up and put in the walls any thing to hold the still air barrier, I even built a free standing one using poly tunnel plastic in 3 layers, used a gas heater in winter, worked a treat and raised 1000s of fish in it and plants with free light. So long as you have the still air barriers it AOK and if you can do a couple even better, for where you are Pink bats, hunt the auctions for pink bats and blue board, a must is use blue board on the inner as its water proof, do you pluming and electrics before you start as its easier and neater. Got to go to work Bob

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We could be in for the quickest cycle of ADA Amazonia! Hold on tight!

Nitrates already after 4 days? wow

I'm not sure what to think of this. It's only been like 4 days! All I've been doing is putting some water from established tank to this tank. Those kind of readings took me weeks on the original tank!

I dont think he meant it as an insult, more so a lot of great ingenuity to re purpose something to benefit your shrimp :) Good job and cant wait to hear how it goes in summer! definitely looks neat and tidy

Interesting so far. Already seeing Nitrites. May be attributed to the fact that I've been putting some water into the tank from my established tank. I'll be measuring parameters on the weekend. And will be squeezing some water from the filter intake on the established tank onto the new one to try kickstarting the cycle.

bumping @NoGi

That's gotta be the ghetto mod of the year on SKF. (pun intended).

hi le0 and welcome short answer is that tigers and bee shrimps can interbreed with each other but not with cherries. focus on keeping the tank parameters good for the tigers as a first priority, because cherry shrimps are much tougher, more adaptable and will still survive and breed in most any parameters as long as the water quality is good :-) love n peace will

Nice topic this is, even with all the side discussions, I like it. Informative for me too. Sorry I can't keep up the posts every week, very busy period at the moment This time I was going to show something that ShrimpDaddy point me to. It's about colored swimminglegs or pleopods as they are called. A good characteristic in my opinion is that as much as possible parts are colored. As showed before, this is much more intense that on 'normal' crystal red. Like the legs and the antenna's. But even some of them has colored pleopods. I've been camping in front of my tanks, but so fare I only have one picture from Shrimp Daddy to prove this colored pleopods: Very nice example! So you have to be patient for more pictures about this, and if I will not succeed, next post (in the new year!!) will be about abdomen, abdominal somietes.The panser of the body and the thickness and form of it.

Good info to have on hand if needed cheers Dean