No, I said boom to your...whatever you use to time me. It won't happen. I ain't giving up.I thought you said you were competitive? You lost already!!?!?!?
I'm just hoping it will explode so I win...
Want to Create a 10 Gallon Shrimp Tank: Where do I Begin?
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I'm just hoping it will explode so I win...
Hijack-Rekindle....
I'm about to get into shrimp as a local breeder/exporter has lovely blue Neocaridina he's willing to sell... at a problematic unit cost, but so it goes as his quality tends to be spectacular.
My systems tend to have various "live-water" invertebrates, so I'm wondering about compatibility with oscracods & amphipods/scuds as I've seen them both overwhelm, kill & consume a mature mystery snail when particularly abundant.
How about planarian/flat-worms and tubifex(?) in the substrate?
Hydra? I don't seem to have at the moment, they come & go.
How about guppies? Lemon tetras? I expect they'll eat the baby shrimp & slow my population-growth (yes)?
Will the blue shrimp eat the ostracods/worms/hydra, or just compete for food? Honestly, it'd be nice to reduce the wee inedible tid-bits moving around the bottom.
Will the blue shrimp eat the tetra eggs (assuming they ever spawn...)
IE: am I tearing down a tank & starting afresh?
I do have a somewhat cleaner smaller tank, kept relatively ecologically spotless by half-dozen 1" SA bumblebee cats... so no adding shrimp, of course not.
Thanks & best regards,
I'm about to get into shrimp as a local breeder/exporter has lovely blue Neocaridina he's willing to sell... at a problematic unit cost, but so it goes as his quality tends to be spectacular.
My systems tend to have various "live-water" invertebrates, so I'm wondering about compatibility with oscracods & amphipods/scuds as I've seen them both overwhelm, kill & consume a mature mystery snail when particularly abundant.
How about planarian/flat-worms and tubifex(?) in the substrate?
Hydra? I don't seem to have at the moment, they come & go.
How about guppies? Lemon tetras? I expect they'll eat the baby shrimp & slow my population-growth (yes)?
Will the blue shrimp eat the ostracods/worms/hydra, or just compete for food? Honestly, it'd be nice to reduce the wee inedible tid-bits moving around the bottom.
Will the blue shrimp eat the tetra eggs (assuming they ever spawn...)
IE: am I tearing down a tank & starting afresh?
I do have a somewhat cleaner smaller tank, kept relatively ecologically spotless by half-dozen 1" SA bumblebee cats... so no adding shrimp, of course not.
Thanks & best regards,
Ostracods, tubifex and detritus worms are no problem at all. Planarians, hydras and scuds will target shrimp or compete with them, eliminate them if you can but they're more of a nuisance than a tank-destroying threat. As for fish, my colony is in a 55g with a featherfin synodontis and a striped raphael in it, but they have no issues breeding since the cats are well-fed and the tank has a thick cover of guppy grass they want no part of. I'm sure they eat a shrimp or two when they can, but the loss of a few animals is insignificant once they're established.
That said, shrimp are extremely cheap where I live (a nice colony of 20 mid-grade neos will set you back maybe $10), so I can afford to be cavalier with them. You may want to be a bit more careful with your batch. But I'd say "get the gravel vac and do a deep clean" is a more appropriate response than "tear down the tank and start anew", I don't think you'll have any problems getting a colony going. At the end of the day shrimp are just water locusts (and breed like them!)
That said, shrimp are extremely cheap where I live (a nice colony of 20 mid-grade neos will set you back maybe $10), so I can afford to be cavalier with them. You may want to be a bit more careful with your batch. But I'd say "get the gravel vac and do a deep clean" is a more appropriate response than "tear down the tank and start anew", I don't think you'll have any problems getting a colony going. At the end of the day shrimp are just water locusts (and breed like them!)
Thanks
C
Conchonius
this sounds much better, though I likely want to screen for damselfish larvae anyways...
Q2: in a well-lit, well-planted (greenwater?) tank is bubbler/wave-maker/filter necessary?
IE: literature says low-flow, but are their O2 requirements like a guppy(low) or like a loach(high)?
this sounds much better, though I likely want to screen for damselfish larvae anyways...
Q2: in a well-lit, well-planted (greenwater?) tank is bubbler/wave-maker/filter necessary?
IE: literature says low-flow, but are their O2 requirements like a guppy(low) or like a loach(high)?
I put an airline in all my tanks as a matter of course (my floaters love to create mats and block off surface exchange), and with your expensive shrimps a degree of caution is advisable, but I'd say a filter is overkill in a planted 10g with just shrimp (and a wavemaker definitely so!) Just make sure to water change and gravel vac once in a while, they're hardy but unchecked TDS creep will eventually get them. Also, don't be alarmed if you see them "water skating" upside-down on the surface - they aren't gasping for air like fish do, they're eating the biofilm on the water.
They can be a bit fragile when they're first adjusting to the tank, so don't be surprised if you lose a couple, but once they start breeding they're as easy as they get. You could keep them in a bucket if you wanted.
They can be a bit fragile when they're first adjusting to the tank, so don't be surprised if you lose a couple, but once they start breeding they're as easy as they get. You could keep them in a bucket if you wanted.
Sorry to chime in but I was wondering if neocaridina will abandon their eggs, I had several berried females last week, now I have none, but no shrimplets. It’s my first shrimp tank so I’m very noob.
