CRS Tank Adventure! ->BEWARE-> (Updated 5.21.08)

[NeonShrimp]

Nice thread, hope everything goes well for you. Be sure to have a good filtration/water change system so you can provide the cleanest water for your shrimp especially baby CRS when they hatch

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by mrbelvedere

Vallisneria gigantea, perhaps V. americana. That's why common names generally suck. I'm pretty sure Italian Val and Jungle Val are synonyms.

No Italian Val. and Jungle Val. is different. Italian vals are much thiner leaves and jungle vals are much larger leaves. From waht I know. Common names do suck , its ever Worse with moss

Originally Posted by NeonShrimp

Nice thread, hope everything goes well for you. Be sure to have a good filtration/water change system so you can provide the cleanest water for your shrimp especially baby CRS when they hatch

Thanks, I might get RO filter in a few months but I'm not sure if I would be able to hook it up in the house . So I'll see, if not the LFS near me sells RO water.

Filled tank shots from day 1 will be uploaded and posted today, Sorry about that guys I had to go. Just got those shots hosted and posted!

-Andrew

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by sandiegoryu

We Need W/H2O Pictures!!!! GAAAH!!

Also, how long does Florabase work. Is it better than Aquasoil? JW.

Soo wait a second. Where are your CRS at the moment?

Its pretty much the same thing. I've had mine in the 55g for a year now. Its still working great. I'm not sure which is "better" since I haven't tried AS yet, just because its easy to go grab a few bags of this stuff from my lfs since no one else buys it .

CRS are in the 55g.

Originally Posted by RESGuy

Sweet! Thanks for the "nice" pictures lol Can't wait to see the pictures of the tank with water in it lol

Thanks, it seems my photos are getting better each time. I'll post the pictures now...

Thanks,
-Andrew

sorry about the DP I didn't realize that I missed some others, If I missed you Sorry...

[A Hill]

And here are the H2O pictures!!

Put a paper towel over the plants to keep disturbance to a minimum!





Still cloudy!




The clam pictures...




I really like the clams Will probably try breeding them in the spring

Updated pictures of the tank will be taken tonight probably!

-Andrew

[gabeszone247]

The 10 gal are good for breeding CRS, but you might want to look into a bigger tank if you plan on breeding a lot. I have 15gal tank, and its good but the more shrimp I got in it the more I had to clean it. 45-55gal are great! I only have to have a 30% water change once a month, or just to top it off. Cant wait to see the finished tank. I want to see some picture of your Shrimp when you get them in your tank.

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by gabeszone247

The 10 gal are good for breeding CRS, but you might want to look into a bigger tank if you plan on breeding a lot. I have 15gal tank, and its good but the more shrimp I got in it the more I had to clean it. 45-55gal are great! I only have to have a 30% water change once a month, or just to top it off. Cant wait to see the finished tank. I want to see some picture of your Shrimp when you get them in your tank.

Yes I have a 55g on the wall to the left of the tank... If I get really serious I'll switch it and make that the CRS.. Probably next year Right now it has some Cherries and the CRS waiting for their new home to be completed.

I'll get pictures once they go into the tank, its hard to get decent pictures when they're in the 55g.

My goal for this tank is going to be much different than most peoples CRS/Diamond goals. I'm going to attempt to breed a Fully black diamond!

-Andrew

[RESGuy]

Cool pics (They ARE getting better ) sounds like all is going good so far. I would like to see a full black diamond It will be cool if you accomplish that, but won't you need a seperate tank for selective breeding of the diamonds?

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by RESGuy

Cool pics (They ARE getting better ) sounds like all is going good so far. I would like to see a full black diamond It will be cool if you accomplish that, but won't you need a seperate tank for selective breeding of the diamonds?

The photos are better than they have been in the past.. I'm not sure that you've seen much of my photos.

This will be my specific breeding tank . I only have low grades atm, and am going to get some A-S Diamonds. So then they should cross for some promising results.

I won't be adding the shrimp to the tank for a month or two though...

I'll need to get more pictures...

-Andrew

[RESGuy]

Originally Posted by Fish Newb

The photos are better than they have been in the past.. I'm not sure that you've seen much of my photos.

This will be my specific breeding tank . I only have low grades atm, and am going to get some A-S Diamonds. So then they should cross for some promising results.

I won't be adding the shrimp to the tank for a month or two though...

I'll need to get more pictures...

-Andrew

Oh, so only diamonds with the most black are going in this tank? And the others are staying in the 55 gallon?

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by RESGuy

Oh, so only diamonds with the most black are going in this tank? And the others are staying in the 55 gallon?

Nope I'm going to cross Good diamonds (A-S) with LOW grade CRS.

I'll explain later.. I need to go ..

-Andrew

[sfcallen]

Originally Posted by Fish Newb

Jungle Val

I think the plant is a narrow leaf sword of some type, maybe "ruben". It will get large.

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by sfcallen

I think the plant is a narrow leaf sword of some type, maybe "ruben". It will get large.

I'm pretty sure it's a jungle val that wasn't liking my 55g. I'm going to take it out sooner or later, but Its just there for now to see how it does. The Italian vals look great!

Got some new pictures... need to post them later

Cya,
-Andrew

[RESGuy]

Okay no more questions on the shrimp stuff lol Can't wait for pictures

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by RESGuy

Okay no more questions on the shrimp stuff lol Can't wait for pictures

I'll elaborate more on the shrimp part... While I'm waiting for the pictures to upload.

On shrimpnow.com someone posted a link to a site in germany selling full black bee shrimp for $20 or $30 USD per! Lots of price for such an interestingly colored shrimp! So I want to try and breed a full black Diamond strain. I wouldn't charge that much for it but enough to hopefully make it worth trying to produce. I know lots of people like shrimp and would love Full black shrimp, So Why not try to get some?

What I'm going to do to try and achieve that is easier said than done.

I have some LOW grade CRS, some are almost full red. I'm going to attempt to Cross them with decent grade Diamonds (A probably) To try and get full black w/out any white. It will be much harder probably to actually do since it takes sooooo long to have CRS/Diamonds give birth and the young to reach maturity . But hopefully I will start to get some full black ones. Then at the time I have enough to separate them I will and just breed them together, taking out the striped ones and keeping the full black ones. So EVENTUALLY Hopefully I'll get a true breeding strain of BLACK Diamonds (full black ) Now can you imagine a tank of full white CRS and Full Black Diamonds? It would look awesome!

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Full tank shot


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And a random Pic of some moss in the 55g, probably a leafy liverwort of some sort...



-Andrew

[RESGuy]

Oh I understand now. And yes this will take very long! Especially because you will probably get more CRS then diamonds at the beginning. But I hope to see some black shrimp soon, the shrimp of the next generation! lol


Very nice tank man I am liking that stringy moss dude