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Re: Baby shrimp successfully hatched from a dead female! Intersting bit of info to know.

Come to think of it now yes it was kind of funny, but I tell you I wasn't laughing when it happened.

A bit of advice from me is to put some extra silicon on the foam background before you start your scape. Last Saturday I came home to find the foam background on my less than 5 months old Ebi floating at the top, uprooting most of my established plants and leaving me with a mess to clear up...

I have a brand new (still boxed) light for Ebi that I bought for £33, but never got round to using it. Open to sensible offers if anybody is interested in buying.

Couple of times that I have attempted to trim some of my crypts, both times I ended up getting crypt melts. I must be doing something wrong.

I ended up with lots of pest snails (I think some kind of ramshorns) into my tank as hitch hikers on plants, so I got 4 assassins couple of months ago (my tank is 60l and fairly heavily planted), they have done a fab job in cleaning my tank up of pest snails and have also started to breed...

I believe they need high protein diet - other snails or blood worms etc but not your normal leftover fish food.

I am in the similar situation - I got 4 assassins couple of months ago to clear my 60l of pest snails and they did a brilliant job. I hardly have any pest snails left and assassins have started breeding albeit at a slower rate. I am now struggling to feed my assassins.

Just throwing another possibility in the mix - could it not be due to some kind of bacterial infection in the tank? I have heard that shrimps are prone to it lot more.

Thanks mate, knowing that it is some sort of ludwigia will do. I still don't have a clue how it got to my tank, I definetely did not buy it.

Thanks for the reply Iain, it is close but the colour is very different to the one in the hyperlink. Mine is just green with no red what so ever. Are there different variety of this plant?

Can somebody ID this plant for me please? I don't recall getting this from anywhere, it just started growing from nowhere couple of months ago and now doing rather well in my 60l.

That may be the case but I have only had this issue with gouramis. I have never kept barbs so don't know about that.

I had exactly same problem with two of my dwarf gouramis over the last year, it was very distressing to watch them gradually getting worse and worse. I use ice cold water in a bowl and drop them in - not nice I know, but they do usually die within 5-10 seconds. I stopped keeping gouramis now.

I never put untreated water in the tank, even if I don't have any livestock - I have heard it kills the bacteria.

Re: Aquanano40 CRShrimp tank....Quick video. Amazing videos Ady, your shrimps seems to love their new home. Your scape looks brilliant too.

Re: The forgotten nano I am so jealous!! It looks amazing Iain. Is this a fluval flora or Ebi?

I thought it was Rotala Indica

Ceg thanks again for your detailed expalination. Above are the only readings I have found on water company's site, but knowing that my gh is roughly 3.2 will do for now. My main concern was regarding my shrimp tank (crs and rcs) that I have recently set up. I have read that crs do well in gh...

Thanks ceg, I thought it will be somewhere in these numbers but did not knew what to look for and how to convert it, so thanks for clarifying that for me. What about gh and kh?

Below is the water quality report for my area from my water company's website.  Can somebody please help me interpret these in plain english? (or point in the right direction where I can do it myself).  The main things I am interested in is what is my tds, kh and gh.  Calcium 23.1250 mg Ca/l...

In my 60l - 10am to 10pm. I know it is too long but the reason for that is because I manually put the CO2 on (I know I should save up and get a solenoid) before I leave for work around 7:30 and I don't want to leave the CO2 running for too long without the lights. The light is only 15w t8, so...

I gave up and took the solenoid off for now. I will try cleaning solenoid and have a go again to see if it is ceased up etc as suggested. The CO2 was flowing in the right direction, there is an arrow on the solenoid pointing out from the regulator side. Thanks for all your help for now.

Cylinder was brand new when I bought it, been using it for about 6 weeks or so. Just took the solenoid off and I am able to control the bubbles much better again. So it's only when the solenoid in attached that I am having problem.

Tried that but still no luck!!!

Today I have received a solenoid from another forum member and tried to set it up with my JBL 500g refillable system but I am struggling to control the bubbles, it is either coming out too fast or none at all. Before without the solenoid, I use to have one bubble every two seconds (tank is 60l...

I bought a new JBL non return valve only about a month ago and today when I disconnected the tubing from the regulator to connect the solenoid that I recently got, water started comming out of the tube. I checked by blowing through and it seems that it is faulty because it allows me to blow...

Re: Aquanano40 CRShrimp tank....Photo update. Ady, your setup looks amazing to me. If mine looked anything like yours, I would be very happy with it. No need to be disheartened mate, keep your chin up.

Wow, that is gross. I don't think I am ever going to open my windows again.

Can they go deep down under water?

Apologies for my ignorance, but what is so bad about a dragon fly that it warrants stripping the whole tank down?

Looking good, I really love that lush hydrocotyle on the left. What is your dosing and water change regime?

Re: Aquanano40 CRShrimp tank....Plant melt & new TDS meter. You are soooo lucky, I would buy one at that price any day.

Re: Aquanano40 CRShrimp tank....Plant melt & new TDS meter. Wow! I thought I got a really good deal on mine but yours is about half the price I paid. Can you share with us where you got yours from?

Re: Aquanano40 CRShrimp tank....Plant melt & new TDS meter. What did you pay for the light if you don't mind me asking. Because I bought a new Fluval Ebi complete set couple of weeks ago from http://www.portonaquapet.co.uk for £55.95 + £6.50 P&P.

Re: Planted aquariums of roslinyakwariowe.pl gallery - video Absolutely amazing.

I have just subscribed online but it is 3 issues for £5. So the one you got for £3 must be for selected few.

Thanks

I have ordered tnc complete which I understand is very similar to tpn+. The question I have is will over dosing than recommended on the bottle be harmful to shrimps? I have some cherrys and crystals in my 60l.

Search for item number 261023227983 on eBay, it may be suitable for you.

Nice

I have a piece of mopani root for sale, look in the sale forum. Will reduce it to £6 plus postage if you are interested.

Absolutely fabulous

Thanks - I will look that up when I get home.

Amazing pics, I wish that was my tank.

I am in the same boat, I am fairly new to the hobby and just getting into shrimps. In last month or so I have put 19 crs in my heavily planted 60l tank. I have no idea what my kh gh is, but I think my ph is around 6. Other tank mates are roughly 50 (or at least that how many I put in) cherry...

That was exactly my thought that £20 seems a bit too much. Can I please ask a stupid question? What do you mean by 'in date'. I tried to look for a date on my JBL cylinder but couldn't see anything on it. How long are they meant to stay in date and how would I know if it's in date?

The place is Ossett is called Interfish but they only do refills for TMC bottles. How much do hydraponica charge for 500g JBL refill?

Thanks wally, I will try and contact them to check if they will do jbl bottle.

I think it is to cover a football pitch.

Any one?

Nice, is that a fire red or Sakura?

:lol:

And pay cash or by debit card otherwise it goes up to £12 :D

Can't you put some sort of plastic divider or something to stop existing subtract sliding? I was thinking something like a lid of a margarine tub while you are putting the sand in. Others may have a better solution.

Before I use to put them straight in my tank but now that I got some shrimps I am very careful and usually soak them overnight before putting them in.

Bookmarked the very useful link, thanks George.

Any shops anybody would recommend in West Yorkshire?

I bought mine couple of months ago, and in last couple days notice few with the saddle. It is all exciting stuff this, isn't it.

Result in less than a month?

Excellent pictures

I have just started injecting CO2 and am thinking ahead of when I will need to refill my cylinder. Anybody know anywhere in West Yorkshire that do CO2 refills at a reasonable price? I have been told that maidenhead aquatics at carrgate garden centre charges around £20 for a 500g JBL bottle, is...

I don't have solenoid but I do manually turn my regulator off every night and turn it back on in the morning. Can the regulator handle this or will I damage it by keep turning it on and off every day?

I would be tempted at that price.

I bought couple of plants from Ikea (Leeds) about a year ago but for me they didn't last, I don't know what they were called.

Re: Cherry Shrimp & CO2 Well, following some very useful advice on this excellent forum, couple of days ago I got rid of my 3 adult female guppys and about 60+ frys. And to my surprice within couple of hours loads of rcs came out of hiding. Today I also sold my beautiful shoal of cardinal...

Re: Cherry Shrimp & CO2 I must have put about 60 rcs (4 different batches from different buyers) in my 60L over the last couple of months and don't understand where they have all disappeared to? I can only see few sometimes mostly after the light is out, so I know they (at least the few that I...

If it helps, I recently bought a brand new JBL set (old style JBL Profi set) from eBay and got a full bottle with it.

Thanks Darrel, I will have a go at this.

This looks easy, I am going to try this method. Does it only work with daphnia or can I try blood worms etc too?

75 pence a bag or 5 for £3 at Maidenhead Aquatics near me (at Carrgate Garden Center - Wakefield).

Excellent Article, thank you.

When I asked a similar question my lfs recommended me sagittaria teres, so I bought two pots couple of months ago and they are doing really well. Slowly but surely it has started to cover my substrate and is looking very nice.

I am not very experienced but from what I can tell, my cherry reds love java moss.

I use excel in my 60l with sagittaria teres, and not had any problems.

I have some java moss that I bought over a year ago and it is growing very slow.