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I hope my fututre shrimpters evade the atack of the fish in the pelia!!!

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Thought I'd give an update on the shrimp since I just cleaned up the tank well for the first time since I got here. I've just been doing water changes and letting it ride before now. The shrimp made it in the move to Charlottepretty well. The tank probably looks almost the same as the last fts, but in reality there's probably twice as much pelia. It's doing pretty well. The fissidens has steadily declined and is absent from what I can tell. The petite nana seems to be doing well, but is growing VERY slowly.

I have moved all fish out of here and it's now just a shrimp tank again so they can regain their numbers again. There are a ton of trumpet snails in addition to the shrimp, which have seeded my newly resetup 50g planted tank.

This tank is now in front of a window. I'm not sure how this will affect things. Instead of fighting it, I've decided to take the light off the tank and let the tank get natural sunlight (filtered through the blinds a bit) from about 9 or 10 until noonish when the sun passes the window. I'll then run the 2 18w pc fixture until 7 for a total of 10ish hours of light. I've always wondered about the sunlight = algae theory. The shrimp themselves might disrupt the results though, they are algae eating machines.

Well enough talk I guess so here's the pic:




Also, anybody know the effects of excel on the shrimp? Would it be bad to try and dose some in this tank?

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

I am glad to see the shrimp made it pretty well on the trip. I lost a few on my way down here but not enough to make a major dent in the large population I have.

I am not sure the effects of Excel on shrimp. Much of it might depend on the ratio. I have lowered my water level in the 55G to spot treat BBA using excel quite a few times without any ill effects on the shrimp. I think you will be ok if you don't over do it in the little tank. You have to keep in mind that things go bad much faster in a little tank.

If you are up for it maybe we could to a shrimp swap sometime to mix up our gene pool.

55G Planted tank thread
19G Container Pond
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Wingsdlc/Ric

If you are up for it maybe we could to a shrimp swap sometime to mix up our gene pool.

That would be a great idea. I've thought about that in the past too. I'd like to give my shrimp a couple weeks to build up the population a bit. Right now I'd only want to round up 10 or so, and I think that would be a waste for you. I've already seen a few babies, so I think it should bounce back up by then.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Matty ... I have Glass Shrimp in my 60g and I dose excel every day ...no ill effects that I can tell ..I started with 20 and when I cleaned the Canister out last week I rescued about 60 .


Garry

Thanks for the info Garry. I'll start to try it out in really small doses.

On another note, I got a new lens today. Combination graduation/birthday present from everyone. So I thought I'd take pictures of small things since it's a macro lens. That's why I'm posting in this thread, Shrimps!









This guy was really small, those are grains of sand for reference:
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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Matty,

Really nice pictures! Maybe you will just need to come up here and take photos of my tank!

55G Planted tank thread
19G Container Pond
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y118/Wingsdlc/Ric

I'll bring my camera if we decide to meet up at your place!

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Very Nice Pics, and cool shrimp! I've always wanted to make a small planted shrimp tank

Thanks!

Today I upgraded. The 5.5 has been retired and The shrimp now reside in a 12g nanocube. I got just the tank without the hood for $15. I figured the shrimp would like the extra room to grow.

Now I have to find a place that cuts glass for at least a partial covering of the tank.

You'll see the tank is still cloudy and I'm running the aquaclear on there for extra filtering until the tank clears up and seeds the bacteria, though I might just drop the old bio rings into one of the chambers for that and remove the aquaclear when the water clears up.

I also used a bit of tupperware to guard the filter intake from exploratory shrimp.

The pic:

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Good upgrade and talk about lush ...great plantings .

Did you get a count of your shrimp when you transfered them . Approx of course .?

Garry