Newman's Shrimp Bowl

[FisheriesOmen]

Originally Posted by Ozydego

I snapped an adult in half once, but it was his fault for not being fast enough....

lol survival of the fittest. I'm sure all your shrimp have adapted to be quite fast now :P

[Newman]

yes, no adult snapping for me lol.
i'm going to be careful and siphon then spoon them back.
some trouble is finding them among the debris. it will likely help if they get red color fast after the hatch. i'll have trouble with transparent shrimplets though..

[FisheriesOmen]

Originally Posted by Newman

yes, no adult snapping for me lol.
i'm going to be careful and siphon then spoon them back.
some trouble is finding them among the debris. it will likely help if they get red color fast after the hatch. i'll have trouble with transparent shrimplets though..

nnoooo the transparent are the kind of culls I'm looking for D: But it is a cool "natural selection" if they aren't red enough they are less likely to make it back to the tub in order to breed. Honors Bio. FTW

[Newman]

lol yes. I am a biology major as well (I'm assuming you will be too)
and I will be saving all the shrimp i can. I never actually cull shrimp by killing. i sell.

[FisheriesOmen]

Well it's either Bio major or Game Design (really similar right?)
and good all I need are a male/female cull pair. (wont be for a while though).

[Newman]

lol yes very similar, almost identical (NOOOOO)

yes i'll have plenty of females and males for you.

[FisheriesOmen]

cool. man thats been my biggest problem is i could either a.)Be a Game Designer and run a side buisness involving fish (like speedie) or b.) Be an aquarist and do a little game designing on the side. Both are quite easily interchangeable which makes it even harder to decide D: at least I'm down to 2 though when I was younger there were 23 things i wanted to be when i grew up lol i was a very weird kid back then :P

Update? wanna see my drawing of a cherry shrimp I made today :P

[Newman]

sure, why not

[Newman]

anyone need a CO2 system? everything but the cylinder(which you can rent) I can ship. check out my sale thread on it.

[Newman]

co2 system sold for $130.00
too cheap but at this point i just want to give it to someone because its simply idle equipment which could be doing great things

[Newman]

unfortunately the crystal shrimp are all gone. my parent wanted me to put my shrimp tanks outside, and the crystals couldn't handle the temp swings...all are gone
I brought the bowl back inside, and will eventually try yellow shrimp and convert the bowl back to tap water
for now it stays a planted only system.

I also am desperately trying to move out so that these types of problems dont keep happening.

[FisheriesOmen]

Next time don't listen to your parents...would've thought you'd know better >.>

[Newman]

I had no choice. My parent isn't exactly normal...
So until i move, which is hopefully soon, I have to deal with w/e i am thrown.

7 Yellow shrimp went in today. they seem in good health.

[TheJadeShrimp]

Awww! Sorry about the crystals. The plants you gave me are growing good. The Salvinia is in the bowl right now. I flooded it also. I love it more than ever. Can't wait to put shrimps in it.

[Newman]

yes i will miss the crystals

yellows are doing well in the bowl. i converted it to tap water now. waiting for possible algae...

my cherry shrimp are doing ok. both amanos still alive. All are currently indoors because of cold weather. the crate is in storage, and the shrimp are currently living in a 5 gal bucket...
the cold weather messed them up in terms of the berried females. some of the babies were born but only a few made it into the bucket.
a few females are still berried and most are saddled. a couple of them are both saddled and berried at the same time which is odd...