Doc4PC2

Should the water be different to get your shrimp to breed?

Right now I keep:

Temp - 73 F

TDS - 165

PH - 6.4 - 6.6

RO Water and Bee Shrimp Minerals, and nothing else

One Indian Almond Leaf

One small bunch of miniature Alder Cones

Xmas moss only in the tank, no other plants or moss, but there is plenty of xmas moss - xmas moss wall, and half of the floor is xmas moss.

Couple of organic fallen Oak leaves

One Malaysia Driftwood piece in the 10 gallon tank

Small peat cup floating on top

BorneoWild Bee Balls in the tank

Food is a mix of veggies, protein, minerals, and only good quality food. I feed them every other day. Whatever they can eat in three hours, if there is anything left, I take it out.

Have a dual sponge filter and a Penguin BioWheel 200 HOB with bioballs for second media, and

moving bed filter with K1 media in it.

They all seem fine. I haven't had a single death, that I know of. I change 15% of the water every other Saturday.

So, is there anything different I should be doing? or something I should change?  Maybe play some Barry White music. lol

Shrimp types in the next post.

ahhh, so you use it as a second media in the penguin 200 then.

Harlequins are very cool.

Louie, So you take your penguin biowheel filter, dump the media, fill it with the Purigen, or chemi-pure,

and then every 4 months, you rinse it out good in cold water, and then let it sit for a day in aquarium

water, and then put it back in your penguin biowheel hob?

Wow, they are cool looking shrimp, but sounds like the conditions have to perfect for them,  but I sure

would like to have some.

Spoil away, and welcome!

All I know is that is it very cool!

Wow!  Love it!, Awesome information and thanks for sharing it!

really hard to tell, but it sure looks berried to me.

That's a good idea, I should try to plant in, maybe in a small planter, and see what happens, maybe I could

grow my own alder tree. I do live in the mountains..... lol

I went with a bottom layer of Fluval Shrimp Stratum, and a top layer of Black Moon Sand, so far, I can keep the PH at 6.4 to 6.6.

But I also have some miniature alder cones in the tank, and one Indian Almond Leaf, and a couple of Peat Pellet cups that

float on top of the water. They are in the kcup filter that people use for coffee. I just fill it with peat pellets, close the top

and let it float on top of the water.

I was wondering if anyone know how long you are supposed to keep miniature alder cones in your shrimp tank?

After about 3 weeks, they start growing these tiny stems that have usually two green leaves on them. They

are very, very small.

Do you exchange the alder cones for new ones after awhile? Is it okay to leave them in there?

Thanks, Doc

Nice, they look pretty happy in that 12 gallon.

Welcome, Glad you joined, there is a great gang of people of here, and they

are very helpful too. Lot of fun, lots of posts, lots of RAOK's, and loads of

information!

These were not Springtails. There were actually white flies, very tiny, tiny, white flys, but

when I look at the photos, they were the white flies, like you would get in a garden, but

not the Springtails. I hope I don't get any of those Springtails. I don't like them at all

either.   lol

When the shrimp shed their shell, it really freaks me out, every time I see one, I think, oh, no, I

have a dead shrimp, until I check further and find out it is just the molted shell.

It seems like they are all shedding their shells in the same place, on the Indian Almond Leaf, then

eating it. But that is place where I see 90% of the molted shells, is on the leaf.

The Blue Bolts look very cool!

Looks like CBS to me...

all great info, thanks!

Sort of and thank you, but what if they don't know if the food is there or not? Say, some are on the

other side of the tank, and never really know the food is on the other side? Or will in the space

of 3 hours, find it eventually? I usually feed at the same time, same place, in a feeder dish, trying

to get them to know that is where the food is. But I wonder if I should be spreading it around the

tank some?

I only keep xmas moss in the tanks, but there is quite a bit of it, half of the floor is xmas moss, and going up one

side is xmas moss. I have a small piece of Malaysia Wood, and one Indian Almond leaf, and a small cluster

of miniature alder cones. The dual sponge filter, and couple of small caves, but not a lot of decorations.

There are about 35 to 40 shrimp in the tank of varying sizes.

Seems like the shrimp just haven't been too excited about what I feed them, so I haven't been feeding them too much.

But today, I put in a blanched slice of organic Zucchini, and every shrimp wanted some. I let them eat off it for about three

hours and then took it out, and only left a very small piece. They were all still trying to finish off the tiny piece I left. They

went at this, like they haven't seen food for years. I was taken by surprise, and now I am not sure if I am feeding them

enough for not?

The question that I have is, how often do you feed your shrimp?

It seem like you shouldn't ever leave food in the tank for more than three hours, if it is not all eaten, from what I have

read, but I get so many opinions on how often to feed them. Some say, every day, some say every other day, some

say, only twice a week. I have even seen twice a day?  Either way, I need people to answer that have been successfully

raising their shrimp for awhile to know what is right, or at least point me in the right direction.

Thanks! Doc

I am still trying to figure out which is male and which is female. lol

Congrats!

How long does it take for shrimp to breed, once they go into a new home? Does it take awhile for them

to get used to being in their new tank? How old do they have to be before they start breeding?

Since I did a major clean up, boiled everything, cleaned everything all around the tanks, etc. I have not seen a single one return. I have no idea where they come from.

I have been meticulous with the third tanks, so that was a major surprise. Plus I am one of those weird clean and organized type of person in my home. The only

thing I put in the third tank was xmas moss, but that was in the tank for about 5 days before this happened. I can't imagine they being on the xmas moss. They would

have had to hatch under water after 5 days, so I doubt that would be even possible. Plus the person that I buy the xmas moss from is just an incredible person,

who is highly detailed and does excellent work. They were white flies, tiny, tiny, tiny, white flies. I hope I never see them again. 

But, so far, everything looks great, and every inch around the tank, you could eat off, wall, tables, knick knacks, carpet, shelves. You name it, I sterilized it. So, I don't

think they will be back whatever they heck they are.

Thanks for sharing!

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