RyeGuy411

Hey Shrimpspot!
 
I have the great opportunity to test the Shrimpy Daddy product line. This came at the perfect time as my two new shrimp tanks just finished cycling. I decided to test these products on my new Blue Bolt shrimp tank as I separated them out from my original Taiwan Bee colony.
 
As this Blue Bolt tank just finished cycling I used the guidelines listed on the Shrimpy Daddy website: "Water Restarting Procedure". As the conversion from liters to gallons are almost never whole numbers I did my best to come as close as possible.
 
Quick Specs of Tank:
17.1g Mr. Aqua Aquarium Micmol Aqua Mini Color LED Eheim 2213 Filter with Purigen and Biological Media Controsoil "Fine" Black substrate
 
Here are my test subjects:
 
Day 1



 

Mk's super prl is now berried. I wish you guys can see her in person. Her shell and coloration is insane.

I second MK Blue Diamond, though I just started testing Shrimpy Daddy remineralizer.

Yellow King Kong pretty sure I see the start of a saddle.

Yellow King Kong pretty sure I see the start of a saddle.

...sorry folks... no photos of the Pinto baby. He's a little shy, a bit excited, and too energetic to for me to take any good photos. He is excitedly exploring his bigger home now that he is inside the main tank. Let's just hope mom and dad are busy inside the breeder box. 
 
So.. since I don't have any photos of the Pinto baby, let me share 3 photos taken with my iPhone earlier this week.
 
Thriving JRB Colony

 
Thriving JBB Colony

 
One of my studliest stud male Japanese Red Bee

 
Strikingly deep crimson-like red, check C.L.E.A.N Pearly white shell, check Sexy red legs, check Red rostrum tips, check Signature Hino No-Entry pattern, check  
Yeppppp.... he's the future daddy of many sexy shrimps! 

Unless you are using media or substrate from a cycled tank I doubt you are cycled at 10 days. Using filter bombs on brand new tanks and running temps at 86 I can cycle a tank in just about 12-15 days and that is fast. I will always let my tanks run a full 4-6 weeks before introducing shrimp to build biofilm and age the tank a little.

Track down sean litrakis, some of the best wr/rr in the world

Hi All,

Post my introduction, here is posting images of some of the shrimps I have kept.

Its very hard to get shrimps here and you can count how many shrimp keepers are there in our country

Please ignore some of the bad image qualities

Blue shrimp



Orange



Fire Red



My own prl line - which due to my mistake only is now no more. They stopped breeding and are now no more with me. But again will try this time with CBS



Cross of green and zebra babaulti



Zebra



Crs



Yellow



Indian Caridina white backed



Shadow Panda in 2012. We got them in India at around 2012, hand carried. Have just joined job and these things were so costly that I had sleepless nights those times. Sold them off after some days

Will be getting some soon



Tiger shrimp



Vampire Crab, built a paludrium for them. But lost interest after some days

Welcome!

I doubt 5 hours of light is enough, I would run your lights for 8 hours but raise them and or add a diffuser to make the light less intense. I run my LEDs for 10 hours straight but I have all my lights raised up and use multiple diffuser panels. When the plants are established and no algae is growing I remove a panel and monitor for a few weeks then keep going until my plants are growing well and im not getting algae growth. I use to have horrible algae problems running the same lights for 8 hrs with a one hour break. Since I started raising and diffusing plants with algae when added to these tanks will lose the algae on its own.

Here's a few random shots of some of my tibee.

There is almost no chance for long term cure, may have tried. I did hear one anecdotal account of using malachite green combined with dark that supposedly worked. No one has since repeated it with success.

TDS meter is not that important but hardness tests are very important. If you didnt have ammonia I would say what you are describing could be hardness related. But with the ammonia im sure you are describing suffocation, ammonia burns the gill tissue and makes oxygen exchange impossible causing slow suffocation.

Looks like that's the kind I'll get then, Rye.  Thanks.

I use this timer as well. It is slightly a pain to program but works well. It does lose time slowly which isnt a big deal, and it has as internal battery that keeps time when the power goes out which mine does occasionally.

I think I have my first batch of Tibee! I've been trying to get pics of them for a few days now. The one in the first pic is the nicest I've seen yet, hope I can find many more! 
 

 

A happy surprise. Product if a Japanese Male Pinto x Mosura Blue Bolt female.






Discovered chilling inside the breeder box with mom and dad as I was cleaning the tanks last night. Will try for a HD macro later tonight or this weekend. [emoji16]

SOLD!!!!I have a large amount of coral moss available for $40. + 6. shipping. 100% Algae free but has some duckweed and maybe a small bit of other types of pieces of moss mixed in. If your lucky there may also be a few shrimp in there. I wouldn't be surprised. It's the size of a baseball or slightly larger. The moss in the pic is compact. I accept Paypal as form of payment. I'll also throw in some trident fern for free. Thanks!

Your KH value would have to be zero and use quite a few alder cones to actually change the tank pH.

I love my glass "shrimp catcher" Chris....although I have not caught shrimp with it yet...cough cough.

I love my glass "shrimp catcher" Chris....although I have not caught shrimp with it yet...cough cough.

Ok here are he pics from the event.

The gist of conversations I've had over the last few months with several people (some very recently):
 
Person: I just got my shrimp a week ago, and they are dying.
Me: How long have you had your tank set up?
Person: [Answer ranging from one week to one month.]
Me: Okay. How did you cycle your tank and what do you have in it?
Person: I have this and that in the tank, and I left the filter on for [a week-a month] so I don't know what's going on.
Me: Okay, but how did you cycle it?
Person: I put bacteria in and left the filter on. [some didn't add bacteria and just had the filter on.]
Me: Did you add some source of ammonia?
Person: Yes. I put in the bacteria.
Me: No, did you put in ammonia with the bacteria? Like fish food or a piece of shrimp or fish or ammonium chloride?
Person: No. I just put in bacteria.
Me: Test your water and let me know how your test goes.
Person: I have an ammonia spike.... How do I have an ammonia spike? The filter's been on. [some people don't have test kits, so their response is, "I don't have a test kit. I don't know."]
Me: Well, let me tell you a little bit about cycling. =)
 
I was the exact same way when I first started. I had no idea what cycling was or how important it was and thought that if you put the bacteria in and just let the filter run, everything would be a-okay. Well, everything's not a-okay if you've got shrimp dying left and right from ammonia poisoning.
 
So I'll just leave this here... =)
 

 
**Please note that this is a tutorial on how to cycle a tank from scratch. It goes much faster if you use an already seeded filter/substrate, but many people starting out do not have this available. Also, some people prefer a fish-in cycle. I am not one of those people. =)

I would think putting it in a bucket and soaking with very hard water and changing daily for a week would accomplish the same thing without breaking down the soil and wasting as much water.