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I think topping up as far as you can before you start is a good idea. If you waterchange out the bag water and replace with mainly tank water I don't see what's wrong with putting the bag in the water at the end and just let the shrimp escape in their own time. No need for netting that way...

float the bag in the bucket to do the dripping, clothes peg it to the side, when your done then float the bag in the tank to equalize the temp

3 to 4 hours is what I do too. If the room is cold I put a tub of water with a small spare heater below the tank and float the bag and drip into that. Also 1 drip a second or so. Towards the end I speed that up and waterchange several times, so that by the end the water in the bag is pretty much...

`I think sometimes the females are new to it and its just inexperience and they accidentally drop some. There are some accounts of people getting eggs from a dead berried female and getting them to hatch, so I don't know if this could work for you? I wouldn't worry though as if you are seeing a...

Thanks! ... some more photos then? Give me an excuse to try my new camera

... also called 'Rocket Panchax'

An African fish, born outdoors in Scotland now living in Welsh water. We either call her Looby Loo or Lindy Lampeye!

same as bogwood, the powdered one called 'Baby Pro' from freshwatershrimp seems to work well, but I haven't tried the more expensive ones so can't compare

Hiya, I don't think you should worry about lowering gH 5, as any much lower and shrimp might not moult easily. Same with pH, since I think you have adaptable types of shrimp, and its more important to keep it steady than low.

A big friends grandsons were growing tadpoles at the top of the garden, a noble pursuit, but the tank is better than that?!

F1 tank., 2' by 1' footprint

Ha! and by the way I had to remove the pygmy cory, which turned out to be a good move anyway ... but thats another story

I keep Amano shrimp in here, with Norman's lampeyes and chilli reds, the last few months I added RCS and they are taking over

This is also what I aim for, the 200l shrimp tank has a 2000EF from APS with a spray bar along most of the back (seen the Benibachi factory, Japan on youtube? ) and two large-size double sponges run by the quite beefy Tetratec 400. Sounds like it should be too much but I don't think so. I...

Really interesting! ... I've not been able to notice anything like that in my tanks. Don't worry about being vague, that answer seems pretty good, thanks

Great journal! Your enthusiasm is infectious and reading through has got me smiling ... Japanese music?! lol I might have to give that a go. I can't really help with the grading etc. but back a couple of pages you were talking about nettles and keeping them dried. I missed my nettles last...

Hiya Lindy, I know its never going to be an exact science but is there a rough 'shrimp per litre' figure that you would use for 'overcrowded'? This is one of the questions asked of contributors to 'Breeders and Keepers' Vol 1. where two breeders talk about social structure of shrimp which only...

Cheers Bogwood, thats a very good point

Quite a range there, both the harder and the easier to breed. Really hope you make a bigger tank work as after 3 1/2 years you really deserve to.

Its doing ok, has its moments! It was begun last year with about 25 F2s, that bred from F1 hybrids from Sharnbrook. I;m hoping for tapwater -bred Taiwan bees, an illusive dream so far. I've sold on about sixty F3 to Alistair and kopite a bag each, and there hasn;t been alot of shrimplet action...

Hiya Tim What sort of shrimp are they? Do you think another sort might be better?

Yeh! the footprint that counts more than the volume. I think I read that before

Just wondering what are thoughts about dedicated shrimp tanks? Seems to me shrimp are often suggested for tiny nano tanks which are actually not all that suitable, even for shrimp. Looking at the photos of an 8l nano tank in the PFk magazine, there's about ten shrimp in there. Fair enough, but...

Si mae!

great! yeh, I reg'd here last year, but I'm a lurker

Fingers crossed here Al, how's it looking?