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All coming along nicely. I've added some seasoned material and half a dozen red ramshorn snails, and a treatment of "Aquasonic Bio Culture", which is said to be a cycling bacteria additive that actually works. Time will tell, I'm watching/testing carefully. Plants are responding very strongly to 6 hours a day of light, set on timer. Water is much clearer now, but certainly not finished and highly aerated with both an airstone and the filter box out let. I dropped the level to about 6cm from the cover edge to allow the light to fully reach the surface for the frogbit (which is taking off). If I wasn't having floating plants it would be fine filled right up. Camera didn't quite focus properly, I'll play with the settings more next time.

Hi there.... I read some interest topic here. I am a plant and shrimp keeper. Im running 12 tanks now. I keep Snowball Crs neocaridina ( yellow, red, orange, blue) Sulawesi dennerli I saw a lot photos. :) My 180lt dutch tank. :) Red cherry , rummynose and bnp. A 10lt with red chery , without filter and heat. Just growing plants. 90lt Sullawesi cardinals 30 lt topaz blue 30 lt crs tank1 30lt crs tank2 30 lt neo Yellows 30lt snowballs 30 lt orange neo And a some videos... Thats all ... :)

Hi there who breed those yellows? Its the only shirmp that had problems. :) I loose them 2 times. The first time I had them before 4-5 years they begin multiply , after a year stop breeding, and the shrimp get old and loose them all. Before two years i buy new from germany from 8 shrimps i get 200+ , and then again stop breeding , get older and i had in the tank only 2 males. I buy again 2 females , and raise them to 170-180 and again i dont see a sandle or eggs. Whats wrong with those shrimps? Its the only species doing this .

Hi I was given this large shrimp by a lovely friend... she/he is about 3cm long and much 'heftier' than the mixed bag of neocardina culls she came with. Can anyone please tell me if she is a Chameleon shrimp? or a chocolate cherry? My friend at first thought she was a Rifle shrimp as that was he had been told, but I haven't seen any baskets on it or seen any filter feeding... This is the best poto I have been able to get of her/him.... she is a very active little shrimp and I normally end up with a picture of a brown/purple/bluish blur LOL

Now just growing plants... :) Some other scape of the same tank for contest. And some photo of removing overgrown plants. :)

Haha so im not the only. :) Maybe some genetic ? I dont have problems with the shrimplets grow or keep them , but why shrimps stop when rich a number, and dont begin again. I dont have big tanks its around 30-40lt. I try diferents substrtates, seachem , gravel, gravel with aragonite , akadama, all had the same results. Raise temp to 26-27c. Big -small water changes . Adding seachem discus mineral. The last time i moved to a new tank 170shrimps , no sandle no eggs. My lights is 12hours. Before i was keep them at : Kh 3 Gh 5 Tds 140-160 I have co2 in the tanks my ph is about 6.7-.6.8. Now i raise the gh wiht salty shrimp at 8-9 and tds to 180. I see a lot of molts , and shrimps get biger,males going crazy. :) I dont thinks that water parameters is the problem. In all parameters shrimplets survive and grow but after population increase , shrimps stops breeding and sadle. I put 10 of them in crs tank , just for a back up. :) Yes i feed them mulbery for the ca, and now nettle, also hikaria algae wafers had high ca. Try shrimp daddys some product for biofilm. Now waiting some food to try. With other shrimps there is not problem like this. From a 30lt tank, I remove 500-600 orange shrimps, and still there was a lot of female with eggs and sandle. When i move them to another tank At feeding

I absolutely LOVE your Dutch landscape!!!! BEAUTIFULS!!!! ?

They are difficult for sure. I found that calcium rich treats like mulberry leaf in addition to a good shrimp food helped, and just keeping the water parameters stable is handy. Mine don't breed for ages then the whole lot of them go crazy and breed like hell. I'm very sure that Biozyme has helped with my shrimplet survival rate.

sorry, not sure how to insert images from imgur, since the dragging option says file is too big. But now it seems to allows me to attach files. strange indeed.

Friend of mine bought a bunch of 10 yellow. They did grow ealthy, nice color and good size. The female get berried several times, but not a single shrimplet show. They died one by one in less 2 months, till 2 survived only Then, he bought a second bunch of 10. Same story, when finally, as they were 4 left, 2 berried females finally gave birth. At the moment he is up to around 20 yellow... we cross fingers

Here is a book on all the freshwater shrimps and fishes of New Caledonia. There's a precise description of all of them. The book is written in English and French (one page of each). - Author : Auteur : G. Marquet, P. Keith, E. Vigneux - ISBN : 9782856535523

Wow !! Your 180L dutch style tank !! That is so much work. A very nice layout.

i was bleaching plants last night in a 10:1 solution and chucked it in there.... it happily swam about, so i crushed it a washed it down the drain!