feelin good today, saved some lives and got some cool animals

[Sgooosh]

hi! today i went to some stores to buy supplies for some projects, and me being me, i stopped by at the lfs
went to get some more harlequins and a shrimp of some sort
i thought i could keep ghost shrimp but turns out that gouramis might eat them
instead i got a bamboo shrimp(i've always wanted one) 4 new rasboras

also, i saved some plants, they had this huge waste water bucket and in there were a lot of loose cuttings, i asked the lfs dude if i could have some and he said yes, so we picked out a bunch of nice stems
2 plants i already know: rotala rotundiflora and duckweed. others idk but ill post photos tmr, think theya re some sort of ludwigia and pearlweed??

any Bamboo Shrimp care tips?
can i feed them powder egg shell?

 

[Colin_T]

Shrimp don't eat powdered egg shell unless they are really hungry, and it's not very nutritious.

Bamboo shrimp are filter feeders and need green water, infusoria and small particles of food. Use can use liquid fry foods or liquid invertebrate food for marine tanks.

You can use boiled egg yolk pushed thru a handkerchief into a container of water and shaken up, then use an eye dropper to squirt some of the solution into the water near the shrimp.

When you wipe the glass down, squeeze the sponge near the shrimp so the algae floats around it and the shrimp will try to get some of that.

 

[Sgooosh]

Shrimp don't eat powdered egg shell unless they are really hungry, and it's not very nutritious.

Bamboo shrimp are filter feeders and need green water, infusoria and small particles of food. Use can use liquid fry foods or liquid invertebrate food for marine tanks.

You can use boiled egg yolk pushed thru a handkerchief into a container of water and shaken up, then use an eye dropper to squirt some of the solution into the water near the shrimp.

When you wipe the glass down, squeeze the sponge near the shrimp so the algae floats around it and the shrimp will try to get some of that.

thanks ill try to make some GreenWater

 

[Sgooosh]

Shrimp don't eat powdered egg shell unless they are really hungry, and it's not very nutritious.

Bamboo shrimp are filter feeders and need green water, infusoria and small particles of food. Use can use liquid fry foods or liquid invertebrate food for marine tanks.

You can use boiled egg yolk pushed thru a handkerchief into a container of water and shaken up, then use an eye dropper to squirt some of the solution into the water near the shrimp.

When you wipe the glass down, squeeze the sponge near the shrimp so the algae floats around it and the shrimp will try to get some of that.

oh yeah
can i add honey gouramis to pearl gourami tank? i found some nice red ones

 

[Colin_T]

can i add honey gouramis to pearl gourami tank?

It is preferable to only keep one species of labyrinth fish (Bettas & gouramis) per tank. Mixing a small species like the honey gourami with a large species like the pearl gourami, will probably lead to the death of the smaller species if the pearls ever set up a territory, which they probably will when they mature.

 

[GaryE]

The rule of thumb to consider is to never combine two territorial species with the same needs. The two gouramis both breed the same way, so no.

The big red honey gouramies aren't honey gouramis, even if they are honey gouramis....

They are a hybrid created on the farms about 25 years ago. T chuna, the fish that had the honey gourami trade name for many many decades before the hybrid was 'manufactured' is a smaller gourami with stunning colours, but an uncommercial habit of turning those colours down to nothing when stressed (ie, in pet store tanks). The hybrid is twice the size and a much more aggressive fish. It looks nothing like the original fish, and more like the thick lipped gourami to me, but the original sellers probably wanted to cash in on the 'honey' name and reputation.

While English names are easier for English speakers, they are really played around with in this era of modified fish.

 

[Sgooosh]

The rule of thumb to consider is to never combine two territorial species with the same needs. The two gouramis both breed the same way, so no.

The big red honey gouramies aren't honey gouramis, even if they are honey gouramis....

They are a hybrid created on the farms about 25 years ago. T chuna, the fish that had the honey gourami trade name for many many decades before the hybrid was 'manufactured' is a smaller gourami with stunning colours, but an uncommercial habit of turning those colours down to nothing when stressed (ie, in pet store tanks). The hybrid is twice the size and a much more aggressive fish. It looks nothing like the original fish, and more like the thick lipped gourami to me, but the original sellers probably wanted to cash in on the 'honey' name and reputation.

While English names are easier for English speakers, they are really played around with in this era of modified fish.

It is preferable to only keep one species of labyrinth fish (Bettas & gouramis) per tank. Mixing a small species like the honey gourami with a large species like the pearl gourami, will probably lead to the death of the smaller species if the pearls ever set up a territory, which they probably will when they mature.

thanks
the bamboo shrimp is not opening his fins... but he did get a nice spot on the plant