Cubicle shrimpland *now with shrimplets!

nerdariostomp · 01-05-2013, 08:05 AM

Well unfortunately just about everything on the driftwood died. Had to clean up a LOT of dead plant matter and bought some more Anubias which is attached now. Ugh

nerdariostomp · 01-14-2013, 12:32 PM

Some updates

nerdariostomp · 01-15-2013, 11:51 AM

Feeding day! Wow they're really starting to procreate. I've lost count now

GMYukonon24s · 01-15-2013, 12:11 PM

Nice shrimp!

nerdariostomp · 01-15-2013, 01:36 PM

Thanks! Hopefully soon ill get to the point where I can trade them out for fish and plants with some local enthusiasts and make the hobby a little more self sustainable

nerdariostomp · 01-15-2013, 10:21 PM

Found out my phone can shoot panoramas. Very cool. Here's the cubicle

golfer_d · 01-15-2013, 11:10 PM

How do you get any work done? I would be so distracted looking at the tanks!

Great job.

nerdariostomp · 01-15-2013, 11:44 PM

Haha thanks. I have the 3 monitors in my main viewing direction and I spend 90% of my day staring at all 3 and talking on the phone. It's definitely way more than I would've ever imagined doing when I started there 2 years ago

sejoy · 01-16-2013, 12:26 AM

Now that is doing cubicle decor right.

Conrad283 · 01-16-2013, 12:39 AM

Looks like radiology stuff on the monitors.

Nice shrimp and tanks

1aqumfish · 01-16-2013, 01:27 AM

Nice environment you got going there.

nerdariostomp · 02-25-2013, 11:56 AM

Well it's been a little bit. Over 30 shrimp now and still finding babies

time to start gifting some of these to friends

A comparison of the first batch of babies born to the latest found. You can barely see the little one to the right of this one.

nerdariostomp · 03-18-2013, 02:36 PM

Here's the latest look on a feeding day. Lots of shrimp reaching maturity and at least one always berried

Conrad283 · 03-18-2013, 03:00 PM

Man I'm jealous. I think I have either all males or all females. I've had them for a number of months and I've slowly went from 10 to 7

nerdariostomp · 03-18-2013, 04:15 PM

Mine did the same for a few months as well (started with 12 and went down to 7), but I started feeding them good shrimp food on a better schedule and they perked up and I'm seeing new ones all the time and they're active and healthy.

Jake's food is awesome and I will never feed my shrimp anything else. I feed them his complete veggie Monday and Friday and feed them the pumpkin delight or the calcium plus sticks on Wednesday. I dose excel/flourish complete M/W/F as well for the plants which has never bothered them either.

As long as you're doing the basics (for me at least) and there's nothing obviously out of whack, they just need to acclimate and then you'll start to see them perk up. I feel like a lot of people over react and change things up too quickly trying to figure things out, but again, that's just me.

01-15-2013, 12:11 PM	#19
GMYukonon24s Planted Tank Guru (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: May 2009 Location: MICHIGAN Posts: 2,842	Nice shrimp! __________________ 110g Tropical Community & Sakura Shrimp 55g BN Breeding Grounds, Peacock Gudgeons, Panda, Pygmies, & Smudge Spot Cories, Rili Shrimp 10g RCS and show guppies MIAPG - Come join us - Plantedtank - MI - Greatlakesaquaria

01-16-2013, 12:26 AM	#24
sejoy Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (2/100%) Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: USA, FL Posts: 141	Now that is doing cubicle decor right. __________________ "Ball of Zen" Wabi Kusa Journal

01-16-2013, 01:27 AM	#26
1aqumfish Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Canyon Country,CA Posts: 85	Nice environment you got going there. __________________ *The Fraternity of Dirt #48* *Just because its dirt doesn't make it low tech*

02-25-2013, 11:56 AM	#27
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	*Cubicle shrimpland now with shrimplets!** Well it's been a little bit. Over 30 shrimp now and still finding babies time to start gifting some of these to friends A comparison of the first batch of babies born to the latest found. You can barely see the little one to the right of this one.

03-18-2013, 02:36 PM	#28
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	*Cubicle shrimpland now with shrimplets!** Here's the latest look on a feeding day. Lots of shrimp reaching maturity and at least one always berried

01-05-2013, 08:05 AM	#16
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	Well unfortunately just about everything on the driftwood died. Had to clean up a LOT of dead plant matter and bought some more Anubias which is attached now. Ugh

01-14-2013, 12:32 PM	#17
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	Some updates

01-15-2013, 11:51 AM	#18
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	Feeding day! Wow they're really starting to procreate. I've lost count now

01-15-2013, 01:36 PM	#20
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	Thanks! Hopefully soon ill get to the point where I can trade them out for fish and plants with some local enthusiasts and make the hobby a little more self sustainable

01-15-2013, 10:21 PM	#21
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	Found out my phone can shoot panoramas. Very cool. Here's the cubicle

01-15-2013, 11:10 PM	#22
golfer_d Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Posts: 181	How do you get any work done? I would be so distracted looking at the tanks! Great job.

01-15-2013, 11:44 PM	#23
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	Haha thanks. I have the 3 monitors in my main viewing direction and I spend 90% of my day staring at all 3 and talking on the phone. It's definitely way more than I would've ever imagined doing when I started there 2 years ago

01-16-2013, 12:39 AM	#25
Conrad283 Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (2/100%) Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 243	Looks like radiology stuff on the monitors. Nice shrimp and tanks

03-18-2013, 03:00 PM	#29
Conrad283 Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (2/100%) Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 243	Man I'm jealous. I think I have either all males or all females. I've had them for a number of months and I've slowly went from 10 to 7 __________________ 10g and 20L

03-18-2013, 04:15 PM	#30
nerdariostomp Planted Member (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1/100%) Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Newark, OH Posts: 181	Mine did the same for a few months as well (started with 12 and went down to 7), but I started feeding them good shrimp food on a better schedule and they perked up and I'm seeing new ones all the time and they're active and healthy. Jake's food is awesome and I will never feed my shrimp anything else. I feed them his complete veggie Monday and Friday and feed them the pumpkin delight or the calcium plus sticks on Wednesday. I dose excel/flourish complete M/W/F as well for the plants which has never bothered them either. As long as you're doing the basics (for me at least) and there's nothing obviously out of whack, they just need to acclimate and then you'll start to see them perk up. I feel like a lot of people over react and change things up too quickly trying to figure things out, but again, that's just me.

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