Project Shrimp, And Some Of It's Inhabitants.

[Wolfenrook]

This is my 60 litre shrimp breeding project aquarium.

Equipment

60 litre ClearSeal Panoptic 560
Modified Fluval 2 internal filter filled with sintered glass media, modified for reduced flow
200 watt ClearSeal heater
Eco-Complete Substrate
24 Watt T5 power compact overtank luminaire

Plants

Weeping moss
Christmas moss
Echinodorus Tenellus
Eleocharis Parvulus
Microsorium Pteropus 'narrow'
Microsorium Pteropus 'Windelovii'
Java Moss
Crypt Wendtii

Decor

3 Pieces of bogwood, 2 of which are fastened together.
3 'Shrimp Shacks' (coconut caves made by me. lol).
A few bits of purple coated gravel that my wife Gadget made me put in there as she likes purple. :cry:

Livestock

Snowball shrimp
Sri lanka dwarf shrimp
Apple snails (bridgessi)
Tadpole snails
Leopard ramshorn snails

The aquarium

Snowball shrimp

Caridina Simoni Simoni

Apple snails

There are 2 browny green apple snails, a blue apple snail and a golden apple snail in there as well.

Ade

 

[three-fingers]

Cool, nice one, what are the Caridina simoni simoni like to keep? Any babies yet?

I really need to get some moss going in my shrimp tank, that looks fantastic!

 

[Nick16]

haha youre not the only one three fingers. its hard to come by, and its not cheap on the internet!

 

[Wolfenrook]

The simoni are really easy to keep. No babies that I have seen yet, but this doesn't mean there aren't any as I have had females with eggs, the young however are very small, and they have a brief (up to about 4 days) larval (freshwater) phase during which time the young just lie around usually. Good thing about them is though they aren't known to hybridise with any other species of dwarf shrimp currently know to the hobby. Quite a few snowball babies though, about at least 10 that we have actually seen to be counted.

The moss I got off members of here and via a certain other planted tank website. Some of it was free (for a donation to said other site) and some of it cost more than it was worth (in my opinion) when I got it (was ratty and stank).

Ade

 

[paul_219]

Very nice shrimps superb done.

 

[~T~]

Very nice setup. Where did you obtain your snowballs?

 

[Wolfenrook]

Thanks folks.

Very nice setup. Where did you obtain your snowballs?

I imported them from Germany, from 1A-Wirbellose. Hopefully by next year this will no longer be necessary for anybody wanting snowballs as they are breeding well, at the moment though I am operating a (free) waiting list on UK Shrimp for folks who want them (wont be free), as demand is currently higher than the breeding and growth rate of them. lol A couple of years and they should with any luck be as widely available in the UK as cherry shrimp already are.

Ade