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Some more photos that didn't make the cut. I don't know how I got this shot. Must have been playing with the camera settings!
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3 pointsfishmosy, cheers for such a detailed post your post really helped me out. update on my tanks, I have done a layout change and a trim, ultimately redid the whole tank which was a big task. Tanks have been going very well, I started pre-mixing the water and leaving it aerating overnight worked well. I also added a heater and found it was even more ideal. Thanks again for the advice. noGi, cheers for the comment, I haven't got a recent pic but here is a pic when i was removing my plants
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2 pointsThe pump flow jets into the corner of the tank and bounces the flow back out across the semi-circle of pebbles which provide "hang-on" spots for the shrimp. Not surprisingly this was set up to also give maximum viewing potential for me :D Feeding (infrequently) a mix of Sera micron powder, brine shrimp nauplii, and milk paramecium that I culture as fry food (I strain out the big ones on 50µm mesh). I also drop bits of mulberry leaf into the tank every now and then. I've found reproduction to be very seasonal. In the 18 months I've had them this is only the second time I've had berried females - last time was last summer.2 points
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1 pointSo, after my spectacular fail to reduce my shrimp numbers at the last live auction (I sold 11 shrimp, bought 10 from @ineke , who very kindly sent 13: resulting in a +2 from my previous shrimp total PLUS a 2nd tank I'd had set up for breeding now stocked with the new shrimp), I thought I'd start a post to track my breeding efforts/mishaps of the new inhabitants in my little nano tank. So far, they've seemed pretty happy in their new home, no losses, plenty of sheds and at least two berried females. Then looking in earlier, I saw 2 tiny juvies as well, so everything is tickety-boo. I also realised why I've not been able to see the babies, they're a pretty similar colour to the substrate. Here is a (poorly shot) photo to demonstrate - adult at the bottom, baby is the blur on the glass in the middle near the top: So now I'm following on with my plan of breeding them with some of my blue bolts from my main Taitibee/Taibee colony. I'm just drip acclimatizing them now to be released later tonight. Will I succeed in my plans to breed blue Taitibees? With the blue bolts survive long enough in the new colony to add to the gene pool? Do I have any idea what I'm doing or is this just a random experiment with no real understanding of shrimp genetics? WHO CAN SAY? (Probably me in a few months - I'll keep you all updated)1 point -
1 pointI am rather excited and wildly optimistic that I have actually managed to spy not 1 but 2 (YAH 2) notopala babies out and about in my spotted blue eye and native shrimp tank. For now they are only tiny wee little tackers that seem to have clear shells, but from what I can make out of them they seem to have the right body form and shell shape to be notopala. I did battle with my demented camera which hates to actually focus on anything small and these are the best photos I could get of these two little snails. If they are little notopalas and they are always clear like this while young, they would be near impossible in the wild to locate unless you happened to find them on a rock or something rather than buried in the mud/silt/ sand. Anyway here they are see what you think these little guys are. and the second one I spotted1 point -
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1 pointprices seem to be a lot more realistic now and may still drop a little more..1 point
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1 pointCheers dude! Theres an old pic, its ment to be pearl moss i think but im not 100% sure of that
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1 pointI moved the filter abd bell diffuser so when the plants grow out they should be hidden and i trimmed a bit more.
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Cool Psephenids. The red velvet is really 70's shagadellic! Another great tank @fishmosy1 point
thanks,, i hope i can find the information i need here,1 point
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'Dead fish? I haven't seen any dead fish! Have you Phil? Eddie? Nah no dead fish around here mate.' Clearly more hair algae than one shrimp can deal with.?1 point
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1 pointAfter some more scrutinising and squinting through a not so good magnifying glass, then mucking about with the new computers picture programs and zooming in on the photos I think my suspicion is CORRECT ! Here is a zoomed in photo showing the separate mouth part to the body and even the foot spots already appearing along with the patterns on the antenna. And the telltale side breathing/ feeding siphon So I guess the next obvious questions are.... How long is the gestation of the notopala babies? and How many babies do they have at any given time?1 point
1 pointI finally uploaded some pics from the camera to my phone! ( hence the spam haha) here is a pic from the day i added the new plants and today
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1 pointSo, I've changed the tank a little again big thanks to @inverted for the stems! Once the new shrimp eat all the algae, the belem fills out more and the new stems fill out the back i think the tank will look exactly how i hoped it would!
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you must be proud ben :-) i knwo i would be!!! i finally have some time on my hands now so will at last be getting some of these beauties !! (i paid for them probably 2 months ago now hahah) stupid family-life getting in the way of more important things like shrimp keeping dammit! love n peace will1 point
