Crystal Beach Guesthouse

[brancaman]

Hello, as promissed today i start my journal of a dedicated aquarium for keeping crs.

Crystal Beach Guesthouse
Made in February, 2013
52x26x28 - 35 Lts
Filter Eheim 2213
Heater - Jaeger 50W
Lighting - 2X15W T8 6500K
CO2 and fertilizer - not


Hardscape:
3 L Ada Aquasoil New Amazonia, silica sand and black gravel.
shale rock , wood, indian almond and oak leaves,
alder cones and half coconuts.

Flora:
Monosolenium tenerum
Microsorum pteropus
Fissidens fontanus
Marsilea hirsuta
Echinodorus tenellus,
Hydrocotyle tripartita,
Staurogyne repens
Echinodorus vesuvius
Limnobium Laevigatum


Fauna :
Crystal Red Shrimps
Melanoides tuberculata

Weekly water change of 5L

Ph 6.2º
Gh 2º
kh 2ª

And now some photos

 

[gmartins]

Lovely!!!

Nice to see you around here Brancaman 😉

GM

 

[Steve Smith]

That looks lovely 🙂 Any more front photos?

 

[brancaman]

That looks lovely 🙂 Any more front photos?

Hi Steve, thanks and yes i have 2 more photos one month old that i share now:

Front view:


and from above:


As i said before they are one month old, actually the sand is less visible courtesy of my beloved shrimp and snails , tenellus and tripartida are fighting for more room and vesuvius and marsilea are not growing, probably they will not survive

 

[brancaman]

Hi everyone, today i share my latest photos from my shrimps, hope you like it.

 

[brancaman]

Hi guys, today i measure the water and got ph 6.2, 1º kh and worst of all only 2º gh . I allready put a little of equo gh+ but still no changes. Is that because i put less than recomended or it takes longer to show results? Anyway shrimps are less visible last two days, i wonder why.🙁

 

[Nuno M.]

Hi there António

Good to see you around here ...

Cheers, Nuno Matos

 

[brancaman]

Olá Nuno, improving my english and learning more from so many talented and experienced people around here.

 

[brancaman]

Hi everyone, great newws from here, today i found several crs babies just hope they survive

 

[jbirley]

Awesome news, great photo as well. I'm sure they will do fine.

 

[brancaman]

Thanks jbirley

More shots of the adults and the best at the end😉

 

[brancaman]

Hello, everything is going fine around here, i counted at least 9 babies crs, don't know how many does a normal posture means, anyway some more photos for you😉

 

[Ady34]

Looking really good Brancaman 🙂
I'd say 9 shrimplets was a pretty good start, and you have more berried ahrimp so numbers should increase quickly
Really good photos and nice snails too.
Keep up the good work.
Cheerio,
Ady.

 

[jon32]

Great photo's Brancaman! Loving the shot of the shrimplets on the fissedens 🙂

 

[brancaman]

Last night i counted at least 40 shrimplets and more still to come.


How many do you see on this?



And one last shot panoramic view, needs to be trimmed but with so many shrimplets it's not the time😀

 

[brancaman]

Hi everyone, been a while without sharing what's happening here but at least what i have to show you are good news, whatch the photos 😉😉

 

[brancaman]

Playing with movies, hope you enjoy

 

[brancaman]

Today was courgette's special 🙂

 

[brancaman]

Hi everyone, forgot to updated this 😳

So let's see what i got: 24 hours later the courgette/zucchini was like this :



And last shot made few days ago:



Now i strugle with high temperatures as here in Portugal we suffer from 35ºC/95F and above last week and still more to come, so water remains between 25/26ºC all day long
IPMA - Previsão para 10 dias

 

[brancaman]

Who said shrimp tanks are boredom?