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Congrats @Cryptocorynus You have won price number 1. Please pm me your address, Thanks. I was sick as a dog yesterday so I wasnt checking up properly but this thread has become EPIC. Loving the pick with a Pic! haha Once the last prize has been found I will award a bonus prize with the pick with the most likes. So make sure you like the most creative pick. Only prize 3 left!

I "C1" more prize left that one of us pure blood lines can bolt out of the blue with, or am I just a Blonde orange eyed blue tiger hungry for more shrimp?

1D Dunno if I can live with myself after that one...

D12 for me today

I thought this beauty is a caridina. i also thought she is a local, and even endemic shrimp, but it seems this is rather a Paracaridina, the Paracaridina Haivanensis, aka Princess Bee from VietNâm... also known as Princess Bee Shrimp, Hue Bee (Honey Vietnamese) What you guys do you think?

Geese i dont know whats available lol B1. hopefully not gone cause in on my phone lol. Come on banana u can do it!! Mr lucky Wtg every1 copying u wont beat me though

I hope i dont get B10 to the prizes. Pretty crap but its all i got haha

Thought I'd get in early "B4" everyone else!

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Here is a video of my little shrimp room. Still work in progress, i have added 3 more tanks since then, fingers crossed i will have 2 full racks up and running by the end of the year.... Hope you enjoy

Ok so those creatures (probably leaches) has been exterminated finally. For those with same problem overdose whole tank by 3-4 times higher ammount of no planaria. After week at night check your tank for adult creatures and take them out manualy Odoslané z LG-D855 pomocou Tapatalku

My first thought was "added one dried walnut leaf to the Sakura SS tank (the leaf was collected from the parking lot where i live. I have never used them)" which may have cycled through to the other tanks. The leaf may be polluted or sprayed? The goldfish may also be a factor I think trial and error is needed by yourself and try to deconstruct what you have done as you state in you very discriptive post however you can not undo the water changes. I run my tanks at a constant 23*c however 22 is within range. Sorry for your losses and sorry I really don't have a solution for you, hope all begins to improve over the next few hours.

...make that two berried now... both fem. are red cherry, but one w/ yellow eggs, the other w/ darker eggs. Haven't done my homework yet, but I might get an answer here a bit quicker on the question of what the difference is?

Won't have to wait too long to test it out now!!! Congrats!! To continue the thread theme..... Be sure to get your details to Basri and I will get the prize out tomorrow!

Thanks, guys. I've never actually used one before but I've been wanting one for a while.

F6 please I am not nearly as witty as everyone else in here sadly

Hello Everyone! My real name is Liv! I look forward to learning what I can from everyone and sharing where I can as well! I'm based out of the east coast and our access to shrimp is limited here. http://www.shrimpfever.com/ is the only real place to get quality shrimp and shipping always gets you. The shrimp from here are good though and I am trying to decide what to get in my next order! I have been out of the hobby for a few years now. In the past I very successfully breed blue velvet (neos) and OEBT. I tried CRS and pumpkin shrimp but didn't have much luck. This time around I am thinking to tackle something a bit more advanced but supposedly very hardy! He has some black Tibees for sale and I really want to try them! I'm worried I might not be a good enough keeper/well enough prepared. Though from my reading Tibees are easier than CRS for example. The other options are to just buy CRS, or CRS and Tigers half and half. I'm using sea chem Aquasolium so the ph is buffered down to about 6.8 in theory. (Ph meter reading the same.) My water is at 75 F I don't have any test kits beyond PH and am not overly trusting of the water coming from my taps in this apartment. I may end up going to get RO/DI water fill-ups at a local shop to be safe if I get new shrimp. I added a couple cherry shrimp from pets unlimited. It is going out of business and I think everything in there is in really bad shape. Lots of tank tear downs and dead fish. Its hard to say if the 4 cherries I got died because of my water or the health conditions from the shop. They survived in my tank about a week, and the extra baby that slipped in the bag #5 died tonight. I did pick up three more blue velvet red cherry mix from them again to give it one last test before the bigger order. I got some Fluval Biological Enhancer as well and added that prior to adding the new three. Shortly after adding the new shrimp and the water from the pet store the last baby died. The tank pictured is a modified fluval edge made into a rimless 6 gallon. With custom 6 watt (5 white, 1 blue) LEDS to the original switch/hood. The light was done by the local shop. There is an acrylic water guard added with silicone. (Something Fluval should have done with the original) The black tape is actually to block the light bleed from the LED's' until I paint the sides. This is already way too long so I will stop it here for now! (The picture is older from when the temp was at 77, I lowered it last night to 74 foolishly and that sharp swing claimed another shrimp.)

Personally I don't have a preference over heater make/model even though most of my heaters are Eheim Jagers. I use any make/model I could get but for some of my sumps, a 300W Eheim Jager is too big to fit so I had to use a different one. To prevent shrimp soup regardless of make/model of heaters, I would recommend an additional thermostat for each heater which cost around $10-$15 from eBay. Send me a PM if you would like a link. All heaters would eventually fail so a cheap redundancy is a good investment IMO.

That was my other pick for today ;)

It has been a few months since an update, so here it is! 12 neons added, 11 survived. Lost two white clouds too, so down to 5 or 6. 2 Oto's added - surviving well after a month. Shrimp keep on shrimping. Plants are all going well as far as I can tell. When comparing to the other recent pictures, the tank has filled out a bit.

That's a good tip zn30.

Ref the skinny looking otto, do you have a sponge filter, if the food level is down they may be chewing the sponge clean, eating pieces of the sponge as well that gets into their gut blocking them making it impossible to eat resulting starvation. I lost a batch of albino BNs fry just getting to a good size and noted the sponge filter was vey chewed up. They became thin and noted their stomachs were dark in colour (my guess afterwards was bits of sponge) causing a blockage. All my Catfish now have box filters in place replacing sponge filters, problem solved.

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Sorry Alan, Was already gone A4 for me today

Have replied in PM but give a shortened version here for everyone else - it's likely Paratya australiensis or Caridina indistincta. Closer examination (with microscope) would be needed to confirm.

A3 for me today :)

Very nice. @fishmosy would know.

Hi guys, I moved a few tank inhabitants around and have noticed something interesting: I moved OEBT mixed grades in with Pumpkin cherries thinking the colour combo would look awesome ( I have to say, it does ?) : some of my blonde tigers that are clear or that displayed a pale blue while in a blue tiger- only tank, have now turned light orange as they forage together in the tanks and there are more pumpkin cherries than there are tigers for now. The shrimp are very healthy, my parameters are are stable and exactly where I want them to be. Shrimp populations are quite small. This is quite similar to what I have noticed in my other tanks : my large DAS females turn a pale hue of the coloured shrimp they hang out with : one in my tiger tank is quite an impressively light blue colour for a native, another DAS that hangs out with orange rilis sometimes goes orange-ish. I suspect it might be the desire to camouflage themselves in the group from predators? I have large Otocinclus groups...just speculation here. Does anyone have this happening in their tanks? At this stage I am unsure of whether the blonde tigers are staying orange, or reverting back to blonde/ light blue throughout the day...

Yeah I've had a similar experience! My light blue and blonde OEBT change colour a lot. The light blues can be a sort of dark blue-brown one week and then a much lighter blue the other. Blondes will go from dark amber to a... blonder colour? haha. Water parameters not really changing, but ph is higher (about 7.5). If anything the colour changes seem to sync up with their mood. When they are hungry and out foraging they will go lighter than when they are chilling on the mangrove root which is their favourite spot.

Artoo-D2!

Woohoo, I've actually won something! Haha thanks@kitz for the awesome prize and organisers ??