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Matt What makes you think it was an internal bacteria infection? Could be many things just wondering why you concluded that.

Conditions look OK to me. They should breed in that water.

Agreed. Check the females they are normally the ones you grade cherries off as males can be quite pale.

Ok cheers guys. Managed to move the tank to the kitchen today. Been promising myself to do this for 12months. Study tank has arrived. Will have a Busy day over xmas....

Will read through the seriously fishy guide it was not one I had seen and most put Choco temps much higher but that helps but doesn't put me off my plan for tank in the study though just don't tell the better half the temps are more compatible than I originally thought. ;). The kitchen tank will...

Suspected so. Does mean I need to keep my 3 tank rule then with a desk tank in the study. Oh dear.

my xmas project is to sort my kitchen tank out and get some chocos (Sphaerichthys osphromenoides) . As the current tank in the kitchen hosts 40-50 high grade CRS/CBS / taiwan bee and given the chocos need 26/27c has anyone successfully kept the 2 together and bred both in the same tank? It will...

Consider this. Used it before with no issues http://www.pro-shrimp.co.uk/genchem/157-genchem-no-planaria-50g.html

In a tank of 180 litres you can have hundreds.

I've used water warmed and much lower temp than the tank water and never seen an issue. Yes declorinate if using tap but 10-20% water changes with cold water have triggered breeding in my tanks before now....

Jose, Apols if you have already read this but this maybe worth a read if not. http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/a-guide-to-crystal-red-shrimp.19724/ Whilst it's crs specific the principles are the same.

Jose Think you may have called some of the reasons. Never had shrimp in water that hard but sure someone on here will have more experience than me in that department. Do you have a tds figure? I would try adding some food, blanched nettles, algae wafers or any sinking food. Do you really need...

http://www.planetinverts.com/FireRedShrimp.html

Great thread.

Agree with Darrel. I lost hundreds 2 years ago which stopped late spring having been left with just 4.... I noticed last year that tds dropped to 70 over winter. I now re-mineralise to at least 130 using salty shrimp. The stuff on the face could have been moult it couldn't rid itself of. I...

Same issue, thinking of going with assassin though as I have shrimp and chemical approach will kill them. Snail trap maybe?

You Are just making me jealous now. Stop it. ;)

yep +1 dragon stone inert for me too

if you drop the carbon you are likely to bring in other algae issues so if you really want to go down that route then would reduce use first rather than drop it all together. you don't say how much you are dosing of the carbon but most tend to slightly under dose than over dose when in with...

Look really nice lindy. Well impressed. Always great to see the swollen belly. :)

Agreed. Complete falsehood. Both tanks have both in with no issues.

How big is the tank and how heavily planted. Not uncommon to not be able to spot esp with young cherries than are lower grade as they are sometimes almost transparent. :)

As strong a colouring as you can find. Often find males are less strong than females but u can always find males with red legs strong red shells

Agree all look good to me. I have found that shrimps can lose colour when under stress. If you have noticed a change in colour have you changed anything in the tank at all? I have also noted that shrimp lose colour when moulted and moving into the berried state. Ps what's that substrate? its...

+1 I had never got round to buying mesh etc. did have sponge and a zip tie knocking about in the house so used that yesterday. Will see whether any sneak in now.....found 2 more in there when I was cleaning out the filter.

Out of the fish most likely to be tetras. However they could have died for a variety of reasons and cleaned up by the fish and other shrimp. The shrimp will consume dead shrimp very quickly. I'd look at other factors first like stress, bacterial infection or water quality issues.

Rolymo, you could pick up the aquanano 40 thats in the sales section. Great for shrimp.....

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Nope def. a light snack. Once had my adult angels consume 30 cardinal tetras in 4hrs....

+ 1 for most of the stuff above. you can get tanks much smaller and you will see very successful tanks as low as 30L or less with internal, HOB or external filters, just make sure shrimp can't get into the filter and stay ontop of maintenance of filters and water changes the smaller the tank...

have same issue with aquanano 40. haven't yet been able to come up with a solution. next step / plan / idea was to superglue fine stainless steel mesh to the inside of the filter grills only concern would be cleaning it. I have tried fine filter floss, finer ppi sponge pushed up against the...

congrats george, loving the photos, this is where the addiction and obsession starts :-)

Blanche then freeze in ice cube trays is how I have heard of it done. When they pop up my garden again this year I'll be trying.

Ady The shrimplets are fine. Just did big water change and saw 30+ CBS and crs careering around. The mother was massively berried and have heard of issues of the mothers effectively dying of exhaustion after having loads of shrimplets but wanted to know if others have seen similar issues. Water...

Guys Looking for some help. I walked into the kitchen yesterday to find a mature dead shrimp in the tank. Fairly sure this was a heavily berried shrimp which has given birth and I am sure that this is the second time that this has happened. I use ro and salty shrimp gh+ to circa 150tds. All...

+1 Bee Shrimp Mineral GH+ 90g - Freshwatershrimp

V. Interested in how it goes.

+1 :D

That's what I was thinking either fan or mountain shrimps. Both I have seen in my lfs'. Never considered for my tanks as they are too large for what I want. I do understand that they like large flow and thus clean water and high levels of O2.

Mark, If you drip the water in won't that bring with it the co2 so the shrimp will be used to it? I'd be thinking to turn down rather than off as you risk bba outbreak if you turn off?

Seen 4 so far out of 6 looking good. Minor water change done.

Moved them across at about 10pm. Have seen a couple on the substrate this am but had to pop out for few hrs. Lights will be on when I get back so we'll see. Tds in transfer tub had dropped to about 200 when they moved. Tank is 150. They looked stressed when I moved them . Fingers crossed they...

Unless she checks my emails, if so best to beg forgiveness...... C if you are reading this, I spent about a decent meal at the shoulder ;) Back on topic we are on hr 6 of drip. Tds was 250 when I checked 30mins ago.

Wow really? Never heard of that high before.... Few more hours on the drip yet, fingers crossed. Most I have ever spent on shrimp at £8 each. Hoping the missus doesn't find out :)

Just bought some new crs for my nano tank from one of my Lfs'. Given they are higher grade than I usually mess about with I thought I would test the Tds of the water in the bag.......imagine my surprise to find 430.. How the hell did they survive in the Lfs? This will be a long drip method today...

Right first pic here is normal iPhone lens Then pic with olloclip wide angle from same distance. Is that what you were looking for? Rich

Ok. Will try and hook up tonight. Sry been busy with work and not helped by not getting notifications for this subject....

olloclip 3-In-One iPhone Photo Lens Basically a 3 in 1 clip on lense that does macro fisheye and wide angle Its a cool add on.

Apols missed this post completely. Uwa?

Yup. eBay seller selling off cheap. He had a job lot..... :) Protechtradinglimited was the seller...

Just got myself an olloclip for my iphone4s and managed to get a pic of one of Sakura thought I'd share. For 24quid on eBay can't argue so far. 3 lenses for price of one. Fish eye of crs tank Macro of Ebi gold Sakura Sakura Sakura Sneaky Cordy Berried cherry

I had same issues this time last year in the north Manchester area. Lost 150 shrimp in a 3 month period. Never got to the bottom of it.... Sorry to hear of both your losses :(

Don't go without a filter. You'll impact the shrimps health one way or another. If you want totally shrimp safe then air driven a good choice. Used by breeders and are effective. They won't help plants tho as pointed out above. Fine with moss.....

Remember to boil the cuttlebone ;) just removes any nasties.

Agreed copper not the issue. Ph can come down a little. Catappa leaves or alder cones off eBay. Add O2 if you can via air stone. Possibly look at adding some cuttlebone ( calcium) or gh booster (salty shrimp) Check tds if you can. Sure you'll solve it.

No planaria has worked for me in the past..... Can recommend.

Mark generally ph of about 7 But can cope between 6.5 and 7.7ish temp around 23-25. No higher than 27/28 gh and Tds slews important, I try and keep Tds no higher than 220 in my main tank with my Sakura. Gh is arou d 4-5 But as explained above not massively important. Ensure calcium is around...

I measure regularly, ie every few days as I am convinced that I have lost most of my shrimp to water change issues where the water chemistry has changed a lot. This is probably due to paranoia and until i see the shrimp breeding in my nano. I use the following pen HM Digital TDS Water Testing...

Have you tried asking on a forum like shrimpnow?

Check to whether it contains copper, normally the main impact on shrimps. Not an expert in this area though

Interesting. Never experienced lemming like behaviour in shrimp. Have u checked ur water params? I have read of shrimp that are unhappy with water conditions jumping out of the tank in the hop of finding better water....are you injecting co2?

Cheers Alastair. I'll get some over next day or so.

Do you just drop it in frozen or defrost first? Ad when you say not often, once per week or once per month?

Guys, anyone got any positive or negative views about feeding shrimp (Sakura and crs) frozen bloodworm?

Sweet shrimp. Love to get into king kongs but at £60 a throw mistakes can lead to divorce proceedings......

+1 agree with every point in here. :)

Lisa They might be ok with the flake (I've never tried it myself) but what shrimp need are things they need for their shells/skeletons to grow and moult (shrimps grow by moulting) so I'd suggest you do get some specific shrimp food. Hikari and gemchem are ones I have used successfully. See...

Lisa, What type of shrimp do you have? Agree that u don't need to feed often, but what's that equate to in your tank? I'd say weekly...... Re air driven sponge, see link below for an example. You need an air pump and airline and plug the airline into the sponge. Main reasons for why they are...

Doesn't have to be high just 'right' Tds is very important if yours is too high you may need to bring down with ro water.

Mike, I also live in the Manchester area (bury) and had random deaths in my mature tank from about the time you were experiencing them up until march when I tore the tank down and started again. My ph, kh and gh were really low And having spoken to loads of guys and loads of people on...

Recently had some hydra appear in the tank along with planaria and a short course of no planaria by genchem sorted both issues

I have the pleasure of heading to Wiltshire for the weekend to a small village between Trowbridge and devizes given I'll have left the small people behind and just have the long suffering better half in tow can anyone recommend anywhere in Wiltshire for A good Lfs ideally with shrimp. Looking to...

cheers liam, will look at what low impact dosing i can do to clear down the nematodes. I did wonder whether it was planaria but it didn't look like the pictures - I'll look into it further, have read some horror stories of planaria and given my luck in my nano tank so far i want to clear out any...

hello quick question - been having some issues with water stability in a nano tank with a few sakura in - came to it over the weekend to do a daily check and noticed small very fine worm like creatures free swimming in the water. They are very thin, no more than 1/2" long and seem to swim like...