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Cholla wood turning red
regormang
So I been having some deaths with my rcs 10 gallon tank. I'm not sure what is going on to be exactly and assuming it might be bacterial. I also keep tiger shrimp with my rcs and i had my berried one d…
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DRIPPER
sdlTBfan
I have been using one of these for years. It only holds 4 liters at a time so probably only suitable for smaller aquarims, mine are 30L. There is a tap so you can adjust the speed of the drips, or …
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Why aren't my Cherries breeding?
Myola
Hi all, 2 months ago I purchased 18 red cherries and put them into my well-cycled, 40 litre tank. Several of them were berried and have since given birth. Since then however, none of the other …
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Cherry Shrimp not eating? Feeding frequency?
natralyselectd
I recently introduced 20 cherry shrimp (both males and females) into a 10-gallon aquarium, less than one week ago (on September 5, 2018. It is now Sept 10). I am not using a heater, I have provided …
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TAP WATER-Taiwan Bee-UK-(zerowater)
sdlTBfan
Anyone with very large, or many tanks will probably not be interested in this, aside from curiosity maybe, as I doubt this is cheaper than buying RO water. I am writing this purely in case it may h…
6 comments

Fluval 37 Flex
andye1985
Hi I am looking to setup my first shrimp tank.  i am thinking going for some red & blue Cherry shrimp & i was wondering on your opium of the below fish for tank mates.  Pseudoepiplatys annu…
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Dream Field trip, Cairns Adventure. HELP NEEDED
TOTAL TROPICALS
Hi everyone, my first ever post. Next week after 30+ years of living in Queensland ( Gold Coast ). I am finally making my way to Cairns. I'm only going to be up there for four days playing tour gui…
4 comments

Nitrate/Nitrite tester strips
sdlTBfan
I have used these tester strips for years, as the drop sets are way too faffy for me, I tried the drops once and then binned the set???? I can't guarantee how accurate they are. On the linked websi…
4 comments

Cherry death - black/dark blue shell
Proy21
Good morning, I received my order of 20 shrimp from a very well known breeder. All looked good. all water parameters were ok yesterday and are the same today. the tank has been up and r…
4 comments

How long for a tank to mature?
vinniemabuna
Hi, I restarted a 9 gallon eheime tank about 5-6 weeks ago. It had plannaria yuck, I nuked it with fenbenadole and the planaria and most snails are gone. I sols all the red cherry shrimp plants ect …
3 comments

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I need help about Why my shrimp are pale
Ehsangraff
The pinto shrimp has pale 3 months ago Can the color be returned to them? Thanks for help
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Cherry death - black/dark blue shell
Proy21
Good morning, I received my order of 20 shrimp from a very well known breeder. All looked good. all water parameters were ok yesterday and are the same today. the tank has been up and r…
4 comments

SPINACH Fresh or Frozen
sdlTBfan
I am reading a lot of negative things on here regarding spinach and I suspect the big problem with most is they are not using ORGANIC as I have had no problem with spinach and the shrimps mob it an…
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Nitrate/Nitrite tester strips
sdlTBfan
I have used these tester strips for years, as the drop sets are way too faffy for me, I tried the drops once and then binned the set???? I can't guarantee how accurate they are. On the linked websi…
4 comments

DRIPPER
sdlTBfan
I have been using one of these for years. It only holds 4 liters at a time so probably only suitable for smaller aquarims, mine are 30L. There is a tap so you can adjust the speed of the drips, or …
7 comments

JBL Proscape Cleaning glove
sdlTBfan
  I just bought one of these and they make life so much easier, you can clean rocks, heater etc without even taking them out of the tank and glass couldn't be any easier. https://amzn.to/2O…
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Shrimp Lollies
sdlTBfan
Are these any good, see for yourself
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Cholla wood turning red
regormang
So I been having some deaths with my rcs 10 gallon tank. I'm not sure what is going on to be exactly and assuming it might be bacterial. I also keep tiger shrimp with my rcs and i had my berried one d…
7 comments

TAP WATER-Taiwan Bee-UK-(zerowater)
sdlTBfan
Anyone with very large, or many tanks will probably not be interested in this, aside from curiosity maybe, as I doubt this is cheaper than buying RO water. I am writing this purely in case it may h…
6 comments

Cherry Shrimp not eating? Feeding frequency?
natralyselectd
I recently introduced 20 cherry shrimp (both males and females) into a 10-gallon aquarium, less than one week ago (on September 5, 2018. It is now Sept 10). I am not using a heater, I have provided …
6 comments

How long for a tank to mature?
vinniemabuna
Hi, I restarted a 9 gallon eheime tank about 5-6 weeks ago. It had plannaria yuck, I nuked it with fenbenadole and the planaria and most snails are gone. I sols all the red cherry shrimp plants ect …
3 comments

Dream Field trip, Cairns Adventure. HELP NEEDED
TOTAL TROPICALS
Hi everyone, my first ever post. Next week after 30+ years of living in Queensland ( Gold Coast ). I am finally making my way to Cairns. I'm only going to be up there for four days playing tour gui…
4 comments

Fluval 37 Flex
andye1985
Hi I am looking to setup my first shrimp tank.  i am thinking going for some red & blue Cherry shrimp & i was wondering on your opium of the below fish for tank mates.  Pseudoepiplatys annu…
5 comments

Do pinto breed true?
sky99
Hello everyone! I bought some pintos, and i did put them with my other bees (some panda, some king kong, some blue bolts). However, i can't seem to find if pintos do breed true (in that cas…
1 comments

Why aren't my Cherries breeding?
Myola
Hi all, 2 months ago I purchased 18 red cherries and put them into my well-cycled, 40 litre tank. Several of them were berried and have since given birth. Since then however, none of the other …
6 comments

Should I put baby shrimp in breeding box
Chris0zx6r
Hi, I’ve got a 55 litre tank with some guppies, cardinal tetras, panda and peppered cories, amano shrimp and cherry shrimp (oh and a few unintentional snails). I’ve just discovered that there are m…
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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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