So l finally convinced myself to get my first ada tank and so after a few hours of browing on the amano site l finally bought one. Should come in tomorrow so l can't wait. lt's going to be used mainly for shrimp. l'm going to try to go SSS if possible if not possible i'll just have a wide variety of them for my entertainment :wink:. Flora is mainly going to consist of a wide variety of mosses including willow, weeping, java, and maybe x-mas, some fissidens fontalus and maybe ricia. Haven't decided on what type of filter l want. l've read that sponge filters are good but i'm tilting towards having a 2211(my first eheim) with my first ever lily pipes. l do have some black tiger shrimp at the moment with some low grade rcs l plan on moving towards the 30c. Here are some of them l took of yesterday.
Sounds good. Checking out all of the fish stores in Austin is on my to do list. Any recommended? I'll for sure let you know when I have blue tigers available.
1st go to aquatek, 2nd aquadome, 3rd amazonia please visit all three it's worth it and the selection will blow your mind away. also aquatek is the only store to carry ada products so yea you pretty much get the point .
Awesome thanks. the LFS' here are pretty lame and not much of a variety in any of them. I didnt realize this until I visited some stores a few months ago when I was visiting family in Houston. I was blown away by the stores there. Even the smallest blew away the largest here. The best here would have to be Fintique. Its across town from where I live and I still go there for everything. Only place I've ever seen selling shrimp like Amano and Sulawesi.
I'm excited to see the stores in Austin now. Gotta make sure to have a full wallet!
Trust me you'll need it, They have SS+ crs and a decent selection of rcs with some amanos to go with. l do think they're expensive for the price but l rather it be expensive and have them than not have them at all. They have a huge selection of gravels such as orinoco substrate all the way down to power sand. They don't got any ada fixtures althought l wish they did or the tanks + bacter, brighty k and all those fancy products but it's better than the average store. aquadome is like a well... dome? and pretty much it's a 2 story dome with salt/reef on top and fresh/ cichlids on bottom along with some plants and shrimp(not that big of a selection but cheaper). But yea if you do happen to stop by shoot me a pm i wouldn't mind hanging out.
Just a small little update, l put 5 rcs in the tank to get it quickly cycled and be ready for my blue pearl shrimp currently kept in my 48g. The fungus of the manzanita is growing but l got a feeling it won't be long before it's gone. Water parameters are kinda high in the ammonia section so l don't want to rush anything. Hopefully the plants will absorb it faster since moss is a fast grower (atleast for me it is).
Lookin really good. The last picture looks awesome. It looks like a rock is stuck to the side of the glass though. The rock on the right on the glass could be removed to look better.
thanks mellyn. l'm just waiting after x-mas to get me some nice crs to start breeding them. l'm really tempted to just skip the A,S or SS grades and just go to SSS but l'm not 100% sure.
Well l went to my lfs and picked me up 5 crs all S+ grade with a berried female and one crystal blue shrimp l don't think they knew it was blue, it looked more black from afar. The all acclimated well into the tank and so far none dead. hopefully the berried female will suceed and l'll get some nice shrimpies. i'll uploading pics to post in a sec
yes l got really lucky and they let me pick em out. there was two berried females in the tank but l forgot to get the other one. most of the ones left were A grades and some S. l tried to get the whitest ones. The crystal blue one was the last one there, talk about lucky.
Cool, they never have any nice ones when I go, or when ever I have store credit. lol
when your ready to add some diversity to your blood line let me know, I can hook you up!
oh yea definately, i'll be leaving to go on vacation on the 9th and won't be back till the 19th so that ruins my plans for ordering shrimp. What type of shrimp you have? Also l'll be ordering a large breeding box from nikki so i'll be able to house more kinds of shrimp in my 30-c. i'm thinking oebt.
Did Aquatek still have some SS when you left? I was thinking about going there today after my finals.
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