The petco tank sale is going on and I found 5 75 gallons at my local petco. Gonna try to find a 6th one at a different petco. The plan is to start setting up with the Wallace’s shoehead catfish room even though I don’t have the live food ready atm.
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I’ve had multiple but never was able to get them to take frozen or pellets, only live shrimp was ever eaten. Also they’re all wild caught so it’s not like they’ve had dozens or hundreds or generations before them taking it.
With how many tanks I’ll be dedicating to them I can now experiment more with them and have a control group and document my experiences with converting them to non live foods.
I now live less than 5 minutes from where I got live ghost shrimp before so feeding them won’t be a problem until I can get the live food going strong. I’m planning mollies and cherry shrimp. If the shrimp can somehow survive outside then they’re going in a 300 gallon stock tank.
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But how hot did it get from there? The heat is what I’m concerned about 100 degrees is not unheard of in ga and I can’t change that.
In my personal experience, ambient temps got to 100 easily but the water temps never felt quite as high. My guess is that water takes a lot of energy to heat up and by the time water temp started rising, ambient temp would cool down again and so would the water.
This cycle never let it get too hot for my shrimp and though I didn’t monitor water temps in summer, they did fine. I was more worried about the cold and pulled them at 40 degrees.
They’re not too expensive…put a few in a floating breeder box and monitor them and see how they do
This cycle never let it get too hot for my shrimp and though I didn’t monitor water temps in summer, they did fine. I was more worried about the cold and pulled them at 40 degrees.
They’re not too expensive…put a few in a floating breeder box and monitor them and see how they do
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That’s not a bad idea, I reckon I’ll do a 12 month experiment with them and see how the various temperatures affect them. I realized that I have the perfect space in my personal bedroom for a double rack of 75’s for breeding them so I can at least control the weather so I’m gonna set that up along with the outside stock tank.
I just set up my old double 75 rack and this time it’s gonna be for shrimp breeding.
I have a few new additions to the fishroom, some cherry shrimp and polar blue convicts I got from a fellow fish keeper and brand new addition I got less than an hour ago which I’ve never kept before, it’s not even a fish,shrimp, or snail but it’s aquatic. Anyone care to guess what the new edition is before I name it?
If it’s of any help I got them (3) from repticon in Duluth ga and they were the only ones there.
If it’s of any help I got them (3) from repticon in Duluth ga and they were the only ones there.
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Gonna guess an aquatic amphibian; I know there was one vendor that had three Pipa pipa at the Charlotte Repticon; can't really think of anything else that'd really fit the bill.
Newts are iffy; few people have them, and subadults are even rarer (for most juveniles of species common on the market tend to prefer a terrestrial environment) ever since the great ban and I don't think it'd be too likely for many to be there. With salamanders, the market's oversaturated with axolotls and they're practically everywhere nowadays. I suppose they could be sirens, though they're rather obscure and I don't recall seeing any available recently.
Bit too late in the year for Acrochordus and Homalopsis imports; and Erpeton haven't been seen in a good while; doubt it's an aquatic reptile based off that. There's certainly turtles, but I reckon they'd be too much of a pain in the rear for most to keep, 'specially larger ones; I think GA prohibits the sale of any turtle or tortoise under 4" in carapace length unless it's for educational or scientific purposes, though I could be wrong.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does "w beans new edition" mean?