Today I purchased a used all in one 5 gallon bow front tank for a whopping $5 at my work. Replaced the stock filter bad with a poly bio filter. I also got a sponge pre filter off of an established system at work to hook up to the intake.
I know these tanks aren't the best, but since I replaced the filter I think it will do just fine.
I will probably be doing weekly water changes as well.
I went ahead and set it up without substrate today, so it is cycling currently with the established pre filter a handful of established bio balls. A ball of Xmas moss, and some baby water lettuce.
This will be a slow set up I'm in no hurry and I'm taking my time.
I will be placing an order tomorrow for some shrimp food, and some fluval stratum.
Well, I had actually planned to take a bit of a break from TPT, but I found something that was too awesome to not share with you guys! One of my berried mamas unloaded. ( I'm guessing sometime today) I've seen one tiny shrimp ( Haven't looked for them just dropped a piece of food in and saw it)
Anyway, the things is tiny it's literally like this big _ Yeah that's right, the size of that line!!! If it wasn't for the tiny orange eyes I wouldn't have known it was a shrimp.
Well, I still see babies now and then, so they aren't dead yet... however they are still small, and with so much moss who knows how many are there... I have at least 4 berried females right now.
you havent bought it yet? go get some pics!! you can always improve on older pics, no matter what lens! elmo doesnt use a macro lens and his photography is awesome!
Pfft no, I keep buying stuff off of the Swap N Shop... :hihi: While I agree with you about improving on the older pics... I don;t think we can compare his non macro lens to mine... The lens he's been doing macros with is like a $1.5k lens or something.
They are neat shrimp indeed! Thanks for the compliments. These guys have been easy to keep and to get to breed, I've had no problems what soever. Only time will tell if I have good success rate with the babies though. I don't test for anything in here.. I use 100% RO water with Mosura Mineral Supplement.I keep the temp at 70-72
Well decided to remove some excess moss from the tank to make viewing the shrimp easier... lets just say that was a HUGE pain. I spent the last hour picking through moss/ hair algae to make sure I didn't throw any shrimp away.. I did end up finding 5 or 6 tiny babies and put them back into the tank. However I was still not confident I got all of them so the moss which would have normally went to the trash, went into the experimental cherry shrimp tank. I sure hope I didn't stress the shrimp out too much. I've got about 4 berried mama's right now! And apparently a bunch of babies. ( I found 5, in the moss I pulled, so there has to be more in the tank.)
Plese tell me there is a better way to do this.....:angryfire
When You remove the moss You Can get a small bucket Or tub of tank water And place your moss In There. Then You just shake The moss And The shrimp should come out
I'll try to get some pics of the adults this week, they won't be great though. There is no way my lens is capable of photographing the babies, and even if it was, I hardly see them!
Thanks dude, one day I'll get a flash and macro and I should have some real nice pics!
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