TheHappyShrimpKeeper
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Hi,
I am a relative new comer to this hooby. I bought all my stock from a shop in central London and yesterday was asked a few questions by customers, a couple, who said I should post my advice. I have never posted anything anywhere so this is a first. I have been keeping fish and shrimp properly for just over one year in a 80cm tank with a total of 63 current happy chappies including fish and shrimps. I was asked outside the shop to try and give an answer to the question: How long should shimps last? They said ours and our friends shrimps often die within months and they said they seemed not able to get a correct or direct answer from anyone.
My first answer was that I simply dont know. I have found a few shrimp die on me but thats about it. This is what I have, as far as I am aware:
5 crystal reds
3 pinochio
7 babolti either black with brown stripes or clear with black stripes (birthed in tank, cross bred elsewhere, shop?)
1 crystal black
1 blue tiger
2 yellow
3 amano
2 blueish green also babolti
1 blue
The bottom line is that your filter system should be suitably mature. I didnt go for shrimp for 6 months I have an eheim pro 3 under a 80cm wide tank in the unit cupboard. This is much larger than the tank requires and I hardly EVER touch it except to stop flow during water changes. It has been off just once when I cracked a glass inflow pipe during cleaning. I change 20% of the water every week to ten days. I have ada substrate, the works, plus a sandy beach section with a piece of wood that looks like a small island and volcano. It has a plant attached and we call it Shrimp Heaven as it provides much needed privacy and a sense of security. It is dfntly home for them.
The planting is simple and easy. I use normal water and easylife water treatment. I add some ada fertiliser but not every day or even week. I also add each week nano crusta fit and occasionally drop in a dried palm leaf which I have been told is good for water chemistry with shrimps. Occasional liquid co2 when I remember.
I feed shrimp cuisine, sinking wafers, algea wafers, tetramin flakes and some live or frozen. very mixed.
I have successfully bred 5 crystal reds but made one huge error!! I checked the forums and felt it safe to add 2 Khuli Loaches. They didnt touch a shrimp until one day I did some planting and substrate movement. That night they massacred nine shrimps inc all babies. I removed them the next day with the help of my son. The only loach you can keep with shrimp is the Chinese Panda Loach : end of. I have four.
I hope this is of some help to anyone who is interested.
I am a relative new comer to this hooby. I bought all my stock from a shop in central London and yesterday was asked a few questions by customers, a couple, who said I should post my advice. I have never posted anything anywhere so this is a first. I have been keeping fish and shrimp properly for just over one year in a 80cm tank with a total of 63 current happy chappies including fish and shrimps. I was asked outside the shop to try and give an answer to the question: How long should shimps last? They said ours and our friends shrimps often die within months and they said they seemed not able to get a correct or direct answer from anyone.
My first answer was that I simply dont know. I have found a few shrimp die on me but thats about it. This is what I have, as far as I am aware:
5 crystal reds
3 pinochio
7 babolti either black with brown stripes or clear with black stripes (birthed in tank, cross bred elsewhere, shop?)
1 crystal black
1 blue tiger
2 yellow
3 amano
2 blueish green also babolti
1 blue
The bottom line is that your filter system should be suitably mature. I didnt go for shrimp for 6 months I have an eheim pro 3 under a 80cm wide tank in the unit cupboard. This is much larger than the tank requires and I hardly EVER touch it except to stop flow during water changes. It has been off just once when I cracked a glass inflow pipe during cleaning. I change 20% of the water every week to ten days. I have ada substrate, the works, plus a sandy beach section with a piece of wood that looks like a small island and volcano. It has a plant attached and we call it Shrimp Heaven as it provides much needed privacy and a sense of security. It is dfntly home for them.
The planting is simple and easy. I use normal water and easylife water treatment. I add some ada fertiliser but not every day or even week. I also add each week nano crusta fit and occasionally drop in a dried palm leaf which I have been told is good for water chemistry with shrimps. Occasional liquid co2 when I remember.
I feed shrimp cuisine, sinking wafers, algea wafers, tetramin flakes and some live or frozen. very mixed.
I have successfully bred 5 crystal reds but made one huge error!! I checked the forums and felt it safe to add 2 Khuli Loaches. They didnt touch a shrimp until one day I did some planting and substrate movement. That night they massacred nine shrimps inc all babies. I removed them the next day with the help of my son. The only loach you can keep with shrimp is the Chinese Panda Loach : end of. I have four.
I hope this is of some help to anyone who is interested.
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