Soothing Shrimp

Oblong has graciously decided to give back to his own community here on the forum and in the spirit of good will asked to have a different name selected. Kudos to you, suh! In fairness, I am keeping the numbers 1 through 11 for another drawing. Here goes... Congrats Shrimpinista! Please contact me to make arrangements.

OKay, a little late today due to having to pick up my sick kid from school, but here's the winner: Congrats Oblong! Contact me with your order if you can by tonight. I'll get your order mailed out tomorrow morn.

The danger is if you get into selective breeding. Bwa-hahahahhahahaaaaa!!!!

Welcome to the new forum, DK.

Oblong pretty much answered you question, however I also wanted to say WELCOME!

I really like this thread.

For some reason the pics are not coming through for me.

LOL Sounds a lot more lucrative than my shrimp hobby.

Wow. Venustus are very pretty fish. They get to be about 11" long I read. Some day I would love to try my hand at breeding zebra plecos.

A mess of tubing is indeed one of the challenges to using the gang valve.

I originally ran pvc , but since then I found these. Much easier to work with and already works flawlessly. I seal the ends with these. Leave one valve open and run the inline to it from the air pump, and use the other valves for outs.

I run an Alita air pump for 40+ tanks. What air pump are you looking to get?

Wow. Planning on building it out of wood? Ambitious. I don't have the talent or time, so I buy the steel racks. I'll be following this thread!

I shake the dead body out of the shell if it's "gone" enough, or pull with hemostats if freshly "gone.".

No worries on the sponge filter. There's no impeller, so no chopping up. If any shrimp get in the holes when you take off a sponge, when yo put it back on- the current carries them out the top. I personally have almost no worries about it, so I even remove the extension tube on my double sponge filters. I like the way the bubbles spread wider without it. When I take off the sponge, I roll it like a log in the tank and any shrimp on it come off before I take it out to squeeze.. My suggestion is to only clean one sponge and let at least a week between cleaning the other. This way the bacteria is still on at least one if accidentally squeezing out too much bacteria on the other. By waiting to do the other one, you also allow bacteria to start recolonizing on the "clean" one. In short, it is entirely possible to crash a tank by squeezing both out at the same time. yeah...it's happened to me.

I've kept shells from snails before.

Thanks for sharing the pics. I see they have the humped back of low order breeders. Very interesting!

We all have to help each other, my friend.

I think I may mean just that Oblong. I've never kept them (although I do keep Malawa), and just knew the info from the top of my head. Do you have pics of the Sri Lanka shrimp? From what I'm reading it seems to be a catchall name given to shrimp from that region. (?)

As oblong said, you at least found it before ammonia started big time. I've lost shrimp due to that very thang.

More info out there on these tylos than there used to be. From what other hobbyists have done successfully, a pH of 7.5 to above 8.0 and warmer water at temperatures of around 80-85 F.

Bluepearls, there are two different types of shrimp: Malawi and Malawa. Malawi are much harder because of a larval stage the babies go through. Malawa can live in cherry params, and the babies are high order- little mini adults. Not trying to show off knowledge, just trying to let you know the difference in case you find yourself ordering some. heh

Lots of different ways to do it. The big thing is to find one and stick with it. Babies will grow in that param and each generation will be more used to it.

LOL I call that price for my selective breeding the "trinity:" Time, Space and Money.