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A new setup to home a couple of rescued red cherry shrimp: 20 year old glass sweet jar, approximately 4 litres. Old piece of bogwood covered with Java moss (tied on with cotton). 3 W Ikea JANSJÖ LED lamp (2700 K), 6 hours per day. 30% water changes 3 times a week. That's it. If it goes...

Swallowing air is usually a temporary problem and I've never seen it cause death. Gas in the swimbladder is usually due to bacterial infection, but if it's just one fish, I definitely wouldn't recommend treatment as it's probably host-specific. Keep the water quality high - step up the water...

Condensation on the glass depends of the temperature difference. If it's warmer outside than inside there won't be any.

I've finally had to come to terms with the fact that the location of this tank (see earlier posts) means that it's just not going to be possible to grow much in the way of plants in this tank, so today I took the plunge and collected five juvenile three spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus...

Must check that out sometime. Leicester Aquatics on Welford Road isn't too bad. I went to clearwater Aquatics recently, first time for several years, and was quite disappointed.

I've been wondering about this too. Last time I had a planted tank (in "The Optimum Aquarium" era) substrate heating was regarded as a "must have". Now it seems to have gone away. I wonder how many of these claims are actually based on evidence of effectiveness? Certainly, when I eventually get...

As I thought, life got very busy and I haven't been able to do anything with this tank for the past few weeks. However, I had a few hours yesterday, so I braved the heat and took the next step. This was to empty the tank completely and move it forward about an inch. That may not seem a big deal...

I have A. barteri flowering regularly, but only if the are grown emersed (these are in a palludarium setup): Anubias barteri inflorescence | UK Aquatic Plant Society

Are you adding CO2?

Anubias barteri inflorescence in my large palludarium.

Buy yourself a £5 two button mouse from eBay :-) But in the meantime, Control-click on the photo is the same thing as right click.

You can embed Flickr images using the image link itself rather than the photo page, so http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3817/9160354500_5e1aedb2f9_o.jpg becomes: Right-click on the photo on Flickr to get the image link.

I really like this tank in the latest Amano shop tour video: [ADAview] The Best Holiday Vol.2 Suikei Kobo Okusawa Store - YouTube

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If it's too high out of the water you may find it sucks air and is noisy (this also wears the impeller over time). I've often used a couple of 90 degree elbows connected by short bits of tubing with internal filter of this sort to allow the outflow to break the surface (death to all surface scum!).

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That's Ceratopteris thalictroides (Indian Fern or Water Sprite).

They'll eat anything that moves.

It looks very much like a young dragonfly larva.

That does look good. I'm a bit worried that just using one on a small tank will look a bit stark because it's basically a point source and will cast very deep shadows. At that price, I'll just have to experiment I suppose :-)

I've been thinking about this project a lot over the last few days. I played around with a complex arrangement of mirrors to reflect more light into the tank and let me grow a wider range of plans before eventually abandoning the idea as too impractical. I have figured out how I can move the...

It's a matter of taste. I've always had black backgrounds in my tanks but I nearly always wind up with a crowded jungle-style planting - not too dissimilar to your nice tank. The white backgrounds do look good in the (to my view) sparsely planted Amano-style tanks.

I'm thinking about experimenting with one of these over a 45 x 30 x 30 cm tank: 6000K and stated as 1000 lumen output. They come in a range of wattages from 10-50 watts. Has anyone tried one of these or have any opinions on how successful it's likely to be? Thanks,

Good old Google (well, apart from the tax cheat bit)! Catappa = Indian Almond. Got some of those - just been up to the loft and fished them out - added one to tank. Thanks.

Thanks, as a shrimp noob, well, cherry shrimp noob anyway, this is useful.

Drip acclimatisation over about an hour.

Breaking news! After a week of looking, I've just found two still alive, and seemingly healthy (feeding). That leaves one unaccounted for. Hmm, this changes things, I suspect the two casualties make have been weak individuals or in some way compromised.

Yes, thanks. I think that may be the lesson I've learned from this. Looking on the bright side, I've killed (not deliberately) much more expensive livestock than this in the past! :-(

Thanks. This is a very large enclosure and it's pretty stable, so my working theory is that the new shrimps were stressed in some way, either before I got them (local fish shop, not a specialist supplier), or by the move. Is three weeks plausible in that context though?

I haven't done any testing, don't routinely, but as I say the Amano shrimp is fine - it's abut 3 years old now!

No, no fish, just stuffed with plants - Anubias, Java fern and Java moss. I'm curious to know whether cherry shrimp are more or less hardy than Amano shrimp, because I can keep the latter alive with no problems.

Three weeks ago I bought 5 cherry red shrimp. I brought them home and acclimatised them in the aquatic section of a large, mature paludarium. They seemed to do well at first, but over the last week they've disappeared and I've found two dead. This is a large, heavily planted enclosure, running...

Yes, I'll put them on RFUK but I thought I'd ask here first. Call it a UKAPS member benefit ;-)

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On the right hand side? It's Ficus pumila var. quercifolia. Nice plant, can be a thug when it gets going. I find it takes in some vivs but I can't get it to grow in others, never understood why.

I need the space for more tanks ;-)

If anyone is interested, I have two free planted vivaria suitable for dartfrogs or day geckos. 60cm long x 35cm tall by 30cm wide. You'll need to collect from Leicester (LE2):

When I ran my Walstad tanks I followed the recommendation in her book to use "loam". The closest I could get was a bag sterilised topsoil from Homebase. It was quite sandy but had a little bit of clay in, and it worked OK. I think if I was doing it again I would do the same thing but supplement...

I plan on feeding grindalworms, whiteworms, small earthworms and Daphnia, but they normally adapt to frozen foods relatively easily too. The trick is to start by mixing them with live food they like, then gradually wean them.

I'm currently in the planning stages of a new project I've called Stickleback Shallows. Tank This is going to be based on an old custom made 59 x 30 x 30 cm (o.d.) tank, just about 50 litres, that fits snugly on a shelf in an unheated but enclosed north-facing porch. There's no electricity...

I've found BLT Direct to be good for relatively low tech lighting supplies.

I'm interested - why are ceramic medias better?

So have you tried the setup with water in? Does it float? Even if it doesn't at the outset, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night because of visions that one day something would disturb it and it would come floating to the surface like the bloated corpse of a long-dead... (sorry got carried...

Sorry to be dim, but is the polystyrene glued in place to counteract the buoyancy? If so, with hot glue? Does hot glue hold up underwater long term?

I grow Daphnia in tubs in the garden, but I would be wary of using it directly from ponds containing fish. Each netful gets well washed under cold running water then tipped into an inch of water in a white margarine tub - the white background makes it easy to spot any undesirable macroscopic...

Hi everyone, I'm Mike Edwardes. My Grandma bought me my first goldfish over 50 years ago, and that started it all. Over the years I've bred many species of tropicals, dabbled in marines for a little while, and got blown away when The Optimum Aquarium appeared in the 1980s. I've never done a...