SKF Aquatics Monthly Digest 22 November 2017

November 22, 2017

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

Enjoy the newsletter and thanks for continuing to be part of the SKF Aquatics family.

Your SKF Aquatics Team

Recently added topics

Selective Breeding, can I have your opinions?
cdaJiv Tuesday at 03:43 AM

I currently have a Fluval Spec V which is my shrimp tank, stocked with 20~ Cherry Shrimp, 1 Orange Rili (berring when I bought her and successfully birthed fry), and 2 Crystal Blacks. Last week…

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Help with Shrimp illness
kensta88 Monday at 10:54 PM

Hi, I've been running a 16L tank with 11 Bloody Mary and 6 NQAS for about 2-3 months. I recently added 25 Tangerine Tigers about 6-8 weeks ago. Water parameter are:PH 7.2GH 6KH 1NH3 0 N02 0NO3…

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Has anyone tried Mulberry Fruit?
Baccus Sunday at 08:37 AM

My mulberry tree currently has a glut of fruit, so much so all the wild birds, fruit bats and even my dogs have no hope of eating all the fruit. So I was wondering if anyone had given mulberry frui…

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Help Cherry Red Shrimp w/ green eggs??
cdaJiv Friday at 03:20 PM

Do I need to place her in quarantine?I just saw her today… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Beautiful Taiwan Pinto
AJ Aqua November 15

Great New Specie of Pinto, with beautiful color on the back and head, please visit our website at www.aj-aqua.com. View full article

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Fish Lice? Weird small bugs
Tyler345 November 13

I'm back again with yet another weird infestation. I'm underfeeding with the said dosage of Bacter AE daily and putting in 2 small algae wafers a day in my tank. It's 60L with approx 7-8 adult…

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Flow and impact on algae
revolutionhope November 12

I am wondering what the relationship(s) are between flow rate and the type of algae that grows. Without going into too much detail i can say that I've often had BBA grow at the top of the outlet for a…

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RO - DIY mix to include KH rise
Tayloss November 12

HI All, I have been using @jayc DIY mix for my CRS for sometime now after finding all the chemicals here in the UK, and have seen some great improvements over the SS GH+ I was using... Certainl…

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Long Haired Hippie Snail
Baccus November 11

Apparently one of my tanks contains a bit of a beatnik Hippie, aside from the over grown algae he seems happy enough always getting about the tank eating. The other day when I was removing algae fro…

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A small Field Trip planned
Baccus November 10

One of my colleges at work (who knows I am pretty interested in well pretty much all things nature) mentioned the other day that he was very surprised to see Triops in a drainage/ storm water drain…

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Flower head grading
Cheza November 8

Hi everyone I was wondering if someone could recommend a link that describes what is good quality flower head and poor quality. I’m embarking on a new project to breed PBL flower head, I recently acqu…

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shrimp size
nicpapa November 8

Hi there. I bought some yellows neo and are big , very big. I keep two lines with yellows, golden back, and fire. Mine shrimps are the half size of them, not only the yellows but all ne…

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Fresh Water PomPom Crab
Baccus November 6

Just doing some random searches online and stumbled across fresh water PomPom crabs ( Ptychognathus barbatus), being sold in a shop in the USA, now the info they have is that there are pockets of t…

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Forktail Blue Eyes
Baccus November 6

I hope to be getting some forktail blue eyes (pseudomugil furcatus) soon which I plan to put in a 50-60 L tank, heavily planted with red cherry shrimp and nerite snails ( along with a few hundred …

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Mulberry Madness
Madmerv November 6

Thanks to the guys at Shrimp Love Mulberry i recently received a pack of the new Mulberry based shrimp food. The pack contained 4 syringes of mulberry shrimp food and an instruction card for st…

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Rock or wood as hardscape
Don November 3

Hi. I'm setting up a shrimptank for the first time. I read somewhere that shrimp prefer rock, but I was thinking to use wood. Is rock a must?

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Suggestions Please
Baccus November 2

I am going to be heading down to Maroochydore just for the day and was wanting to find out if there where any must visit fish shops and or Bird specialist shops in the area. Fishwise I would be loo…

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Nogi's Pending Retirement from SKF Aquatics
NoGi November 1

The time has come for me to hang my net up and focus on other priorities in my life. Working in excess of 80hrs a week and running 3 online sites amongst other things has been leaving me with no ti…

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Something to worry about or something to develop?
Baccus October 30

Staring at my Black cherry shrimp colony this morning I noticed this girl with vibrant red tail. Is she something to worry about (disease wise) or a colour morph worth exploring/ developing. She so…

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