The plants on the shrimp rack have filled in very nicely. The shrimp has also taken off quiet nicely. I think its time to start selling the shrimp on CL again 🙂
Shrimp Rack
40B tank – CRS
20L – CBS tank
ADA 60p updates
The ADA 60p tanks are filling in nicely. The Pure Black Line (PBL) are finally taking off. Waiting for more off springs so I can start culling the tank. The Painted Fire Reds (PFR) tank as finally settled down. Waiting for the tank to hit critical mass so I can start selling them. Culling this tank has been a lot of work as I want to make sure the off springs are all super red like the parents.
PBL Tank – 3/4 view
PBL tank – front view
PFR – 3/4 view
PFR – front view
ADA 60p side by side
Got new Painted Fire Reds (PFR)
Purchased some Painted Fire Reds. These are my new favorite shrimp!
Painted Fire Reds
Painted Fire Reds
20+ new Painted Fire Reds
Picture update on the tanks
Going from 2 tanks to 5 tanks is pretty crazy. It takes a lot more water to top off all the tanks and a lot more water to do water changes. A few things that I learned:
1. you need a lot more shrimp in the 40b to get them start breeding. The shrimp are scattered all over the place and its harder for them to find each other. When i drop food in there, not every shrimp will come (vs the 20 gal tanks, every single shrimp will come to the food)
2. bacteria and/or fungus infection on shrimp sucks! My fire shrimp is having some type of infection and its so hard to get rid of it. For some reason the cherry shrimp are prone to fungus infection much easier. I’m dosing ParaGuard in the fire tank now and it’s take a long time to wipe out all the infection. I can tell that it’s working but to completely get rid of it all…. it’s taking some time. I dosing for 2 weeks right now. I think you can over dose without any issue. I’m going to start double the recommended amount to see if i can get rid of it once for all.
3. don’t ever mess with a good tank. I had like 400+ CBS in one tank and I decided to empty it all out so I can put in PBL in there. Well that tank has been a tough one to deal with ever since the change. Algae is out of control, the PBL stopped breeding, and the tank just got really ugly. I’m still battling through this one.
Okay here are some pictures:
The two ADA 60p tanks
The Shrimp Rack
The new CRS inside the 40b
PRL Tank (20 gal)
This tank originally going to be a Fire Red shrimp tank. However, the temperature on this tank was much more stable (and lower) than the ADA 60p tanks that I thought its better to put the more expensive shrimp in this one.
PRL Tank
Hardscape:
Tank: 20L (20gals)
Substrate: 13 liters of New Amazonia normal
Light: Current Satellite Freshwater LED+ (24″)
Filtration: AquaClear 50 and 4 Sponge filters
CO2: none
Fertilizers: none
Misc: Driftwood, Mineral Rock
Flora:
Peacock Moss
Fissiden Fontanus Moss
Cryptocoryne
Staurogyne reopens
Blyxa japonica
some kind of stem plant
Fauna:
empty at the moment
Aquaclear 50 attached to a sponge filter
the hard scape before plants and flood
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