chibikaie

This made me smile. Rock on, snails, with your purple blood and deep-sea awesomeness.
Punk Rock Snails

Your shrimp eat better than you do!

The glue method is not very good if one is already known for gluing oneself to the glue tube. Repeatedly and infamously.

I'm going to test the Fast Track horse probiotic and Bragg Liquid Aminos. The combo sounds pretty awesome.
 
Chib- I'm up to splitting the cost with ya on the probiotics.  I'll pm ya.

I LOVE THIS FORUM.
Hey, if you want any horse probiotics, I'd split some so I could test them on my rabbits!

Hooray!

Just want to say thanks to Han.
 
My older parents ( 60s)  bless their heart are not very computer savy and I put a couple Han products on my xmas list.  I have no idea if I will end up getting them but Han has bent over backwards trying to help them navigate his website, including trying to call my dad today .
 
Thanks Han .     You could have easily said  "Hey thats my website, if they can't figure it out, there is nothing I can do"
 
#HanasSanta  hehe

I'm this close to shipping you a box of cheapo Home Depot timers. Actually, wait a minute, I now have more timers than tanks. Let me get back to you.

I'm this close to shipping you a box of cheapo Home Depot timers. Actually, wait a minute, I now have more timers than tanks. Let me get back to you.

totally agree.  costs slightly more up front for the HMF material but in the long game will outlast and out perform just about any other type of filtration. 
biggest plus for me is electricity. instead of multiple canisters/hob/sump pumps/etc.. just 1 air pump and done.

Some might already know, but I just got back from a trip to Japan.  While in Japan, I got the chance to try some really great foods and visit places that tickles my interests of which includes SHRIMPS!!!!
 
I'd like to share my first visit to Lowkeys Tokyo branch.  Please enjoy the following pictures below.
 
              This was my first visit to Japan and my first shrimp store visit in Tokyo and it was SUPER AWESOME!!!  I did a little write up of the store for those interested in reading available at Shrimpfan.blogspot.com   Thank you for reading.

If your air pump is too strong, use a gang valve or tee off using an airline kit with valves ... basically just divert some of the output to an empty line hanging around. Adjust it to what you need.
^-^ your shrimp should be happy in there.

Thanks everyone. It's been such a weird month for me. I really want to get back into shrimp, but I'm just afraid that my ill luck with invertebrates will be their doom.
Well, I have a lot of time to daydream about tanks before I'll be able to get anything up and running, so I suppose committing to anything now would be silly anyway.

Yep just sat it behind the glass for now....my shrimps like it better too.

Pics?

Shrimp do continue to amaze me at how tough some of them can be.

How are they doing today?

Welcome to the friendly side of shrimping.

I would love to see what a vision test for shrimp is like.

Been awhile since I've had an update!!! Will post more pictures when I have access to my computer. 12g long has shrimp now, so I'm super excited for that, with more on the way. Plants are going well and the only downside I have so far is the evaporation is higher than I'd like but oh well.
The 5g is growing riccia like crazy and no other plant is dying but just slow growing. A few Oebt in there and Amano shrimp but quite shrimp empty at the moment.
I consolidated my two emersed set ups beneath into one for the time being as I had to replenish the soil as I'm pretty sure I had no nitrogen and have yet to buy some osmocote tabs.
12g full

12g left side

12g middle

12g right side

5g a month ago

Will have another update tomorrow (later today I guess) with more up to date pictures. The cycling process sucked but glad at what it is now and starting the breeding wait!!
-Duffy

OH I *will* lick this thing and then I will write about it  

I am looking for articles vs individual product reviews.  I would be interested in an article about certain product lines though where you go in depth about the various products in the line.
 
 
Jadenlea,  I would love articles about your struggles with keeping shrimp but I think they should ultimately describe how you were able to fix the problem that was causing the issues (to give people hope )

What probably happened is the nitrates are so far off the chart that diluting them with the water change still gives you a high reading.
Keep doing water changes.

What probably happened is the nitrates are so far off the chart that diluting them with the water change still gives you a high reading.
Keep doing water changes.

I just witnessed a juvi red rili of mine molt - it was so cool.  I've seen the molts around the tank of course.  But never saw one of the shrimps actually do it.
Kinda fun to see