Louie

I am thinking of placing a few crystal red with black crystals .

Has anyone done this, if so what did you get?

Thanks

I love the 3 shrimp on the bottom of the list.

The site I was looking at was that place that you "design " your own led (lol forgot the sites name) , either way they had them all on open top tanks and did not recommend glass (I emailed them).

I still might get one and just prop it up with small wooden 'legs' as Chris has done .

Wicca,

            I remember when Miami had a freak long lasting cold spell some years ago .  Think it was Jan .  You would see floating common plecos in most canals and one person found a large gold nugget pleco in a golf course pond not far from here .  , They common plecos have rebounded in the last few years but the nugget was the only unusual pleco I have ever seen in any body of water here.

I actually found the blue legged poso on ebay while looking them up . Inexpensive but they look delicate.

If you have the room like in a garage, etc , It is a good idea to have an extra tank stored .  I keep an extra 20 gallon in a garage closet which I got at one of those chain pet stores for a $1 a gallon .

Chris,

               What do you keep in your large tanks?

Looking at that link, They keep some very rare catfish in that forum.

The lake Poso shrimp are the saluwasi shrimp?

I recall when the assassin snail craze began.  I did not get any because snails aren't a problem plus I visioned the marine cowry snails which kill small fish and now you are hearing stories of assassin snails killing shrimp.

Soothing,

                       Some of the led units are simply garbage which might be why yours burnt out.

Thank you both. I was looking at the clip on led lights the powerful ones but they do not hang on to regular tank rims and I am not removing the plastic tank rim.

The one's I looked at said that they could not be placed directly on glass .

I am looking at led fixture for my 55 gallon as opposed to the CFL fixtures which I use on the glass cover .  Not to save money but because I wanted a slimmer neater light cover but after reading the sites, I gather that led can not sit directly on top of glass because it affects the led bulbs?

if so will stick with the current set up as do not want open top.

Does anyone use led laying directly on glass cover?

Thank you

I do not think that there are invert charities  per-se but more like wild area conservations.

I find it grows faster 10 - 12 hours light max . That is what I use.

Light 24/7 will not help it at all, think will hurt it.

Oh those are nice whites but the yellow isn't bad.

I am partial to the head of the bristlenose male as find it very neat.

Soothing .

                 All survived and that was when I was just getting into shrimp but the tank was an aged planted tank which helped  They are large now but I mixed them with the Brown shrimp and the yellows.

Lol I didn't know any better. I do have black shrimp babies from the combo and other nice colors .  They are in a 55 gallon heavy planted (no co2) community shrimp tank .

I have set up a few 20 longs since than same planted style but for individual colors . The 55 community is still my favorite but as more babies reproduce the newer babies are not as pretty .

I like snails but to many are no good . What I do is siphon out as any as possible just like you do while doing water changes and I use algae cichlid wafer to get them to accumulate and than suck them out.

The shrimp will disband once nodged with the siphon tube .

I am picking up nerite end of this week , see how they work out.

Poopians,

                      Why not feed at least once a week , at least this way you can introduce some protein , etc ?

What is the care like on these shrimps?

I have kept large leeches by accident that came in driftwood take from canals in an unheated 10 gallon tank.  They were interesting in their own right and lived for years eating dead earthworms and a dead fish here and there taken from my pond .

They hid if lights were on in the driftwood but came out at night and were active .

I never had any young but had the 4 leeches a few yrs , imagine 4 inches long about 1/2 inch wide .

Soothing ,

I actually have a couple from you that border on blue/purple , think you sold them as carbon blue (don't recall) .  They are not like the pic because not as dark but are a blue/purple look.

The rest of the bunch are blue .

It will be quit striking as a White adult . I recall seeing white for sale for like $100 few yrs ago in bristlenoseworld.com  .

I did not keep them but the forum at the time had a marine section .

Lol that is some crab.

Thank you everyone .

They certainly are a nice green , well I can only tell by looking at them online as have never seen any but if they turn black and lose that vibrant green to bad.