sillyclownloach

The water I've been using is conditioned tap, pH is roughly 8, and temperature between 78-81F (live in CA and haven't used AC till recently). I don't test TDS but I've been told by a recent buyer that he thought that I broke his TDS reader when he tested the water. I feed powdered food whenever I remember and WC every weekend. Never had issues with molting with my Neos. Today I found a Royal molt and a Royal had an opal sheen that I haven't seen before so I'm assuming it was his/hers. Knew it was one of the Royals because I pulled it out of the tank to examine the shape of the exoskeleton.

Currently have a 5.5 gallon red rili tank with Royal blue tigers. They're doing well together, however it's only been a week so hopefully things stay well. In regards to rilis changing color over time, I've been selectively breeding for red on white body type red rili but introduced red rili with clear body which I suspect had the blue gene. A few months after introducing those new rili I have slowly noticed shrimplets displaying the blue tissue gene. The previous rilis I had in the tank were consistently showing only white tissue so its highly possible that depending on the tissue type (white vs clear) you can reintroduce the blue tissue gene to breed the blue tissue red rili variation.

I've had it before. Kinda looks like spider webbing right? I typically do a water change and leave it alone or if it's getting unruly turn the light off for a day after a water change. It doesn't seem to be harmful or a type of stringy algae so I don't worry that much about it

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Woah so many welcomes haha thanks guys Oooo quite tempting maybe when it cools off some more here in CA apparently its supposed to be around 104F today

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Oh goodness, although as appealing as it sounds to reduce the amount of w/c that I do for my tanks I don't think I'll be participating in adding Rid-X to my tanks. I've read on multiple forums that patience is a must in this kind of hobby and also the many mishaps that occur when people try to take short cuts. Plus with shrimp they don't particularly contribute a lot of waste to the tanks do they? Unless well...you have like a couple hundred of them in a bare tank, except for maybe a marimo ball or something--then it could be beneficial to use such additives. But in a heavily planted tank? Iono~~~

I also think that the use of tap or RO water could have influenced your shrimp. Tap water parameters can vary depending on where you are. Someone who lives a street or two away could have harder/softer water, drastically different gH etc. If the conditions of the fish you got from that lfs were very poor then it would be likely that the shrimp were kept in similarly poor water conditions and they had a hard time getting used to better conditions due to weakened immune systems. I think I've also read something about if you are frequently changing water in your tank then it can influence your shrimp to molt more or less. Was the tank that the shrimp were in a mature tank or was it newly set up?

A friend of mine dries his mulberry and guava leaves, they tend to curl though. Maybe it would be useful to get one of those grilling baskets to keep the leaves flat while they're drying? something smaller or bigger maybe? :S

Hah, thank you guys for the welcomes! I'll definitely ask for Soothing Shrimp's input when I feel like I'm ready to dive into the whole selectively breeding business lol

OOoo awesome frogs BugMan! I'd love to keep frogs but my relatives would probably freak out at the sight of mealworms or crickets in the house. I had a hard time convincing them that the frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp that I have won't come back to life. If I had live food for my pets I'd probably make them all feint...

Hi everyone! I'm kind of new to the whole shrimp thing. So far I have a couple amanos in a 10 gallon community tank, 5.5 gallon red rili neo tank, 7.5 gallon chocolate neo tank, and a breeder box with a few cherry neos that I'm trying to breed. The red rili tank is bustling with new shrimplets every couple of weeks, so hopefully I'll have enough to start selectively breeding soon. I've also been on the look out for some really nice Blue diamond neos and chocolate neos but with the temperature being so hot I'm overly cautious about my purchases. Anyways, thanks for reading my intro~! - sillyclownloach