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SKF Aquatics Fortnightly Digest 24 February 2017


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Welcome to the latest edition of the SKF Aquatics newsletter, your fortnightly roundup of our favourite discussions and recommended reading.

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What one to go for? ADA
Tricky
Hi all What's the difference between the two or can I use any one, for bee shrip/few plants/moss   Thanks 
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marbled crays in Australia?
pimp
Are there marbled cray in australia,and are they able to be a fairly uniform blue with no marbaling effect?  
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water parameters
Tricky
Hi can someone please explain how we go about meeting these water parameters please With me I'll be useing ro water with salty shrimp + ada amazonia soil, bog wood few plants,  tds 130-180 …
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Breeding towards blues
pmasa
Hi all, i am wanting to start a project of breeding towards blue cherry shrimp. I know that the process will take numerous years, so i wanted to start off right. To start with i was wondering what the…
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C02 bee shrimp
Tricky
With my tank 135L id like to have some plants in the tank, but id like to run C02 as well for good plant growth, but im unsure on what parameters to keep to with taiwan shrimp, i no we can use a C0…
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what saily shrimp to use
Tricky
my set up will me 135L tank, ada amazonia soil, few plants, bog wood, ro water, but i'm un sure what salty shrimp re mineral to use the GH + OR GH/KH  shrimp im having is pinto red Taiwan bee s…
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What ada soil do i use
Tricky
Im looking to use ada amazonia soil, but they do 2 types,ADA AQUA SOIL AMAZONIA and ADA AQUA SOIL POWDER AMAZONIA, im only having taiwan bee shrimp, something like pinto red taiwan bee shrimp, few …
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Water test
Matuva
Hi all, I have problem with my water test, especially for the GH. I have performed test with API and SERRA ones, but for each, I could not have any reading of the GH value of my water samples. …
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East London help external filter waste bactirea
Tricky
ok
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New Tank set up cycle
Tricky
Hi everyone I have a new tank aqua one 135L and my plan was to use ada amazonia soil sustraight, with ada bacteria under the sub, but i also want to run my tank stright away with somthing in it…
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    • beanbag
      Update to say that after a few gravel vacs, front wall scrub, moss / floating plant trim, that the condition seems to have improved.  My current theory is that it is due to waste / debris management, where "stuff" like that brown mulm accumulates in the substrate and behind the HMF filters.  Maybe some tanks can somehow deal with it, but mine can't.  Also another experienced shrimper suggested that maybe those "shell bugs" don't just live on the shrimps but also in this debris.  Maybe this is the reason some tanks fail due to "old tank syndrome" where all they need is a good gravel vac? Also, I am guessing that plant trim helps too because now more of the nutrients and light go into growing algae instead of more plants? Well anyway for this tank I will try weekly water change and monthly gravel vac / plant trim.  For my next tank, I'm thinking of something like an under-gravel system where this mulm can fall down and I vac it out.
    • sdlTBfanUK
      Good to have an update and good to hear you are getting shrimplets, so hopefully your colony will continue and you may not get to the point where you have to cull some to stop over population. These type of shrimp only live 12 - 18 months so the adult deaths may be natural? If you have the time I would do weekly 25% water changes, adding the new water via a drip system and do some vacuuming clean of the substrate each week, even if only a different bit each week! See if that helps in a few months and if it does then stick with that regime? It should help reduce any build-ups that may be occuring!
    • beanbag
      Hello again, much belated update: The tank still has "cycles" of 1-2 month "good streaks" where everybody seems to be doing well, and then a bad streak where the short antenna problem shows up again, and a shrimp dies once every few days.  I am not sure what causes things to go bad, but usually over the course of a few days I will start to see more shrimp quietly standing on the HMF filter, and so I know something is wrong.  Since I am not "doing anything" besides the regular 1-2 week water changes, I just assume that something bad is building up.  Here's a list of things that I've tried that are supposed to be "can't hurt" but didn't prevent the problem either: Dose every other day with Shrimp Fit (very small dose, and the shrimp seem to like it) Sotching Oxydator Seachem Purigen to keep the nitrates lower Keeping the pH below 5.5 with peat Things that I don't do often, so could possibly "reset" the tank back to a good streak, are gravel vac and plant trim, so maybe time to try those again. One other problem I used to have was that sometimes a shrimp would suddenly stop eating with a full or partially full digestive tract that doesn't clear out, and then the shrimp will die within a few days.  I suspected it was one of the foods in my rotation - Shrimp Nature Infection, which contains a bunch of herbal plant things.  I've had this in my food rotation for a few years now and generally didn't seem to cause problems, but I removed it from the rotation anyway.  I don't have a lot of adult Golden Bees at this point so I can't really tell if it worked or not. Overall the tank is not too bad - during the good streaks occasionally a shrimp will get berried and hatch babies with a 33-50% survival rate.  So while there are fewer adults now, there are also a bunch of babies roaming around.  I guess this tank will stagger on, but I really do need to take the time to start up a new tank.  (or figure out the problem)
    • jayc
      If that is the offspring, then the parents are unlikely to be PRL. I tend to agree with you. There are very few PRLs in Australia. And any that claim to be needs to show proof. PRL genes have to start as PRL. CRS that breed true after x generations doesn't turn it into a PRL. Neither can a Taiwan bee shrimp turn into a PRL despite how ever many generations. I've never seen a PRL with that sort of red colour. I have on Red Wines and Red Shadows - Taiwan bee shrimps. So somewhere down the line one of your shrimp might have been mixed with Taiwan bees and is no longer PRL. It just tanks one shrimp to mess up the genes of a whole colony. 
    • sdlTBfanUK
      Sorry, missed this one somehow! The PRL look fantastic and the odd ones look part PRL and part Red wine/Red shadow in the colour. They are still very beautiful but ideally should be seperated to help keep the PRL clean if you can do that.  Nice clear photos!
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