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SKFAquatics Monthly Digest 28 January 2019


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Happy New Year! It's 2019 and SKF wishes you the very best in this great new year! Lot's of new posts and members in our first newsletter of the year!

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New tank setup for yellow shrimps.
jojowhisky
Hi everyone! I have completed the tank setup for the yellow shrimps(query TT,YKK or yellow neos, still dont know what they are.) They are residing in a pail and are so hardy. Can withstand tds 300plus…
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Taiwan Bee Shrimp Maximum Parameters
ShrimpDesigns
Have been thinking about getting some Taiwan bee Shrimp for a while but the thought of purchasing an R.O kit and chiller has always been stopping me. I live in Adelaide and my pH sits around 7.0 - …
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please help in ID this shrimps
kms
I have 4 of these, and a few others with a light and see-through body. I have googled and searched, but nothing comes close to this species. 2 of them are pregnant, so I hope to see what the babies…
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Need some advice
mathhewUK
Hi All  I am looking to setup my new tank ( 135L ) next week which will be eventually be a home for lots of crystal shrimps and very small fish properly 20 dwarf rasbs The substrate I will be …
5 comments

A shrimp molted, got eggs, and died
beanbag
Hello folks, I've had this orange neo shrimp in my tank for about 4 months now, and it was generally doing ok. These last 2-3 weeks, it seemed less active, but still ate, so whatever. Last nigh…
4 comments

seachem replenish
chongkt
good day . my only shrimp tank's tds is rather low. +- 80 ppm. friend suggested this product.  question : is this safe  to use for shrimps ? bcos it contains salt. can someone please help.  ... per…
12 comments

black berry
madshrimpkeeper
hi read that shrimps love mulberry , where I live theres lots of blackberry , has anyone tried blackberry leaves with there shrimps
3 comments

Ellobiopsidae and exisiting setup
cbaum86
Hi, I'm after some advice and the best course of action for a tank which contained shrimp with suspected Ellobiopsidae. There is plenty of information I have found about quarantining and attemp…
5 comments

can paint fumes hurt my shrimps
chongkt
planning to repaint interior of my house. I have a 30 gal mix community tank of about 80 shrimps.  please advise what can I do to prevent hurting my small friends.  regards. 
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5 gallons shrimp tanks for my shrimps. It can be?
Arkaedus
I wan to mantain Taiwan Bee and Tiger shrimps. Can I get the shrimps breed in 5 gallon tanks?  If it can be. What it need to do it? Some recomendations will be fine.
5 comments

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Taiwan Bee Shrimp Maximum Parameters
ShrimpDesigns
Have been thinking about getting some Taiwan bee Shrimp for a while but the thought of purchasing an R.O kit and chiller has always been stopping me. I live in Adelaide and my pH sits around 7.0 - …
7 comments

Need some advice
mathhewUK
Hi All  I am looking to setup my new tank ( 135L ) next week which will be eventually be a home for lots of crystal shrimps and very small fish properly 20 dwarf rasbs The substrate I will be …
5 comments

seachem replenish
chongkt
good day . my only shrimp tank's tds is rather low. +- 80 ppm. friend suggested this product.  question : is this safe  to use for shrimps ? bcos it contains salt. can someone please help.  ... per…
12 comments

black berry
madshrimpkeeper
hi read that shrimps love mulberry , where I live theres lots of blackberry , has anyone tried blackberry leaves with there shrimps
3 comments

A shrimp molted, got eggs, and died
beanbag
Hello folks, I've had this orange neo shrimp in my tank for about 4 months now, and it was generally doing ok. These last 2-3 weeks, it seemed less active, but still ate, so whatever. Last nigh…
4 comments

Ellobiopsidae and exisiting setup
cbaum86
Hi, I'm after some advice and the best course of action for a tank which contained shrimp with suspected Ellobiopsidae. There is plenty of information I have found about quarantining and attemp…
5 comments

5 gallons shrimp tanks for my shrimps. It can be?
Arkaedus
I wan to mantain Taiwan Bee and Tiger shrimps. Can I get the shrimps breed in 5 gallon tanks?  If it can be. What it need to do it? Some recomendations will be fine.
5 comments

can paint fumes hurt my shrimps
chongkt
planning to repaint interior of my house. I have a 30 gal mix community tank of about 80 shrimps.  please advise what can I do to prevent hurting my small friends.  regards. 
6 comments

Diseases?
Fishlover
first picture and last picture or the same shrimp, it have yellow/ green fungus plus it back half is turning white. Second picture is off a female berried shrimp I see a white spot don't know what …
2 comments

Completed project- Home of the tetras
jojowhisky
Just sharing a completed project. Bought 12 tetras awhile back, 4 glowight tetras and 8 neon tetras.Bought them for the purpose of creating a community tank(my very first tank- 16litre tank)However, a…
1 comments

Chinese spinach for the little guys. (First time)
jojowhisky
Today i boiled some chinese spinach for these guys and my! Im looking at lots of holes in the leaf within a few minutes! First time feeding them this, as far as fresh foods go, they have only eaten st…
8 comments

How do i keep my shrimps alive
bobet116
I couldn't keep my shrimp alive for more than one day. What should I do to keep them alive. Sent from my SM-N9208 using Shrimp Keepers Forum mobile app  
3 comments

How to...RO/DI here at last, so how do i make the water fabulous?
jojowhisky
Hi all,My rodi system is here, decided to go with a simpler one. (Saw jayc's and decided to go with a simpler model without all the parts looking like they came from NASA) TDS is indeed oooppm.Questio…
9 comments

Keeping CRS with others?
Macks
Hi guys! So, I just got a small batch of crystal red shrimp to join my blue rilli and orange rilli. I’ve been looking stuff up online and getting pretty confused about water parameters... It seems …
6 comments

Shrimp problem
Tivon
  Hi I really need some advice I recently got red rili shrimp and they all are acting normal but one of them is turning white and I'm a tad concerned is he molting some one told me we was but i…
21 comments

breeding Red oder Black Pinto Zebra/Fishbones
davidwnrw
Hello everyone and thx for adding! I'm really new in holding Cardina, but I did inform me about keeping them. I have 2x scapers Tanks, each 35l, with red bee sand and aquael pat mini filter…
2 comments

keeping cinnamon sticks and oak leaves in tank - how long?
asquirrel
Hi folks, First time poster.  How long to I keep the cinnamon sticks in my tank?  I noticed that after a while the sticks develop a fuzzy film on the outside.  Looks almost like mold.  Is it bi…
13 comments

Species of shrimp?
Krystianb
I went to petco to get some ghost shrimp but I can tell these are not ghost shrimp. Any idea what species of shrimp this is?   https://imgur.com/a/Dw70WkD
1 comments

Bought these shrimp from petco today, listed as ghost shrimp but I can 100% tell they aren’t. What species is this?
Krystianb
Hello, I went to petco today to get some ghost shrimp. The guy scooped them out but right when I saw it I knew they weren’t ghost shrimps. What type of shrimp is this? https://imgur.com/a/cmWw7…
9 comments

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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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