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

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by bsmith782

congrats!!!

dont you think the baby crs look so nice, i wish they looked that bright when they were adult.

I agree! I was like WOW

-Andrew

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[SearunSimpson]

I'm guessing this is the Journal you were talking about in my post on Black Diamonds eh? What temp and what is your feeding and w/c regimines? I am really wanting to breed my bees/black diamonds. There is not a place near me that sells ADA or anything like that, so for substrate the bottom is covered in oak leaf litter with a couple peices of moss covered wood and frogbit floating in it. Do you think this is legit enough for them? Your shrimp look so good btw and I hope mine will look like that. Oh, the filter is an air driven sponge (Hydor).

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by SearunSimpson

I'm guessing this is the Journal you were talking about in my post on Black Diamonds eh? What temp and what is your feeding and w/c regimines? I am really wanting to breed my bees/black diamonds. There is not a place near me that sells ADA or anything like that, so for substrate the bottom is covered in oak leaf litter with a couple peices of moss covered wood and frogbit floating in it. Do you think this is legit enough for them? Your shrimp look so good btw and I hope mine will look like that. Oh, the filter is an air driven sponge (Hydor).

Yup that it is.

Temperature is 73.6F it fluxuates a good degree depending on the days and time of season and stuff.

Feeding is speratic (spelling?) but when they where berried I did it more often Just some food every day, sometimes every couple days since I have some snail problems in the tank. A good range of food is great.

The substrate is Red Sea Flora Base. Its very similar to ADA AS but I as well can not get it locally so have been using this with great results.

The filter is that rapids mini canister filter but the flow died, so its next to nothing. I plan on getting a sponge soon.

As for Water changes I'll get scolded for this I know but its just top offs with prime, usually only when its low enough to look terrible, so at least a gallon or two . The shrimp don't seem to care either way.

I think your setup will be fine, just give them time. I got these guys (only 2 females out of all 20 or so that I bought ) to get comfortable and actually produce babies, the first eggs where dropped. The best advice I can give is DO NOT mess with your tank. Set it up simpler the better and leave it be.

I am positive I have a good half dozen.

-Andrew

[A Hill]

Well I took some pictures while doing tons of work on the 55g slowly taking it all apart .

Some are a bit blurry, but they're the best pictures I've probably ever taken with this "sony Cyber-Shot" 6.0 mega pixels. Also used a small magnifying glass to help as well.

Fist off I managed to get some decent pictures of the baby shrimp. They're around 3-5mm now I think. I didn't measure them, they're small though.







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Uploading more as I type.

-Andrew

[A Hill]

Here is almost all the rest, 10 need to still be uploaded.








Here is one of the moms, this girl is the higher grade of the two.





One of the Clithions.


-Andrew

[szentgyo]

Nice little shrimps! I haven't seen bee shrimp with black "nose" (like on the photo 7,8)

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by szentgyo

Nice little shrimps! I haven't seen bee shrimp with black "nose" (like on the photo 7,8)

Thanks! Its more a trick of the light, it really isn't black but the normal brown. Black would be awesome though! (see the third picture of those three and its a bit out of focus and it shows it more brown and true to life.

-Andrew

[A Hill]

Well today started with school for two hours.

Then cleaning my room some...

Then cleaning the tank of the floaters and pruning off some of the vals.

Then that lead to cleaning the filter and fixing the majority of my flow problem...

After all this I ended up Doing a RESCAPE! Looks very different now, and much better. Added some DW and took out 90% of the moss I was growing out.

The camera is in FL with the mother, so when it comes back I'll be getting some shots!

There are TONS of babies I got them all out of the plants during the rescape because I thinned out the vals some places and there are like 40-50 or so it seems

Leaf litter will probably be boiled and added Sunday.

-Andrew

[fish-aholic]

Did you change the light? Whats the wattage?

[fishscale]

How many shrimp did you start with, and how much did that cost?

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by fish-aholic

Did you change the light? Whats the wattage?

Nope, the light is the normal 10g's hood light. One sigle T8 bulb. Its 6700k temp.

Originally Posted by fishscale

How many shrimp did you start with, and how much did that cost?

I started with approximately ~ 20. They where around $100, maybe a bit more. I have at least 20-30 babies in the tank now, around 7-8mm now! They're looking good.

I'm thinking I'm going to keep a lot of the first batch because I only have two females at the moment, and then maybe the third generation I'll sell more off. Not too sure though.

Man do I want to get the camera to take some pictures, it looks GREAT there is a little bit of tannins in the water but only the slightest bit, not bad for untreated, not soaked wood.

-Andrew

[chizamp]

update?

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by chizamp

update?

This week should have a better update than this but.

The babies are berried

They're great looking and I'll have to get some new pictures this week.



-Andrew

[Craigthor]

oooh I like, me need some of those!

[A Hill]

I'll most likely be culling some of the ones with the worst color within the next month or two

I've got all the supplies to ship as well. Just can't decide on the price.

A real update is to be expected in the coming week.

-Andrew