Im really concerned that my shrimp won't eat or do eat i can't tell. The water gets less green after a day then i feed again 30ml. But the tetraselmis phytoplankton could just settle down I think ?
One minute, everybody’s peacefully grazing and minding their own business.
The next? Apparently we’re hosting the underwater Grand Prix, and nobody told me. 🏎️🦐
I swear these little goofballs have more energy than I do after three coffees.
Anybody else’s shrimp randomly decide it’s time for some high-speed laps around the aquarium? 😂
The 3 clear/gray ones are a few of the amanos I raised myself in saltwater. They're still babies but they're already fighting with cherry shrimp over algae wafers 😂 usually the amanos win, even at that size, but it looks like I caught someone losing this time
The tank on the left is 23.5 Liters and the tank on the right is 31.5 Liters both of them are around 1.020 SG and the temperature is 28°C, the bigger tank has a tiny sponge filter running and the small one has an air line with gentle aeration. This is my fourth attempt at raising them.
The first attempt, I didn't have phytoplankton and I was feeding them spiriluna powder and got till the 9th stage and then everything crashed. 1.018 SG
The second attempt, I added prepared bottled phytoplankton and everything died 1.020 SG
After I failed the second attempt, I had some frozen artemia which is locally collected from salt lakes and frozen and sold as food, so I crushed some of it and added to salt water and left it in the sun, the algae in the stomach of brine shrimp which wasn't digested started to grow and I got phytoplankton, I separated it and cultured and now I added it in my tanks.
The third attempt, I got some phytoplankton and added but that still didn't work out, I have no idea why. 1.020
This is the fourth attempt and now I have prepared 2 tanks both with phytoplankton, on the lighter tank, I added a tiny pinch of yeast and 2 pinches of sugar about a week ago and added some phytoplankton today, the larvae are expected today or tomorrow, I'll add 50% larvae in each tank. Need to test the salinity, it is close to what is before, slightly higher because I added 10 liters of 1.024 SG water from a marine tank in hopes of increasing the microfauna.
Update on the salinity Both tanks are at 1.020 SG
The lights are on 24 hours on all atempts
Any advice will be very appreciated, thank you
I'm just trying to fix some plants and either they keep getting in the way or call me a snack, like, BUDDY-
Esse cara me trouxe dúvidas sobre ser macho ou uma fêmea jovem.
Tenho outro junto e é imenso, por isso sei que é fêmea, e também porque tem mais cor.
He still looks a little red so I'm going to leave him a couple more days just to be sure, but just this morning this dude was still suspended in the water column and now he's taking his first steps.
I explain in my video but I’m nervous that my tank is so green. This is from yesterday, day 31 of my vampire shrimp larva tank. I know it’s not amanos but this is the closest group that can help with this since there’s only one older documented case of vampire shrimp breeding that I can find.
On day 30 I dumped about 1.5 ozs of a mixed phytoplankton that was about 4 weeks in the fridge and starting to be a little more broccoli smelling. It wasn’t enough to make the water green across the board though as most lands on bottom. The tank was super cloudy the next day and green.
I did a 15% water change and increased oxygen in case it’s a bacterial bloom yesterday day 31. I also barely fed anything and what I did feed was a light sprinkle of powdered foods.
This morning the 32nd day it’s pretty darn green. I’ll drop a pic in comments.
I have had lights on 24 hours a day as I’ve heard manother fan filter shrimp that’s been bred more often tends to have die offs when lights were off. Is this maybe an algae bloom?
Should I keep reducing feedings because of this?
I had bought two pregnant amano females, one of them released their zoae about a week ago. I was and still am massively unprepared, as I only had a saltwater tank going for little over 48 hours with instant ocean and RODI water.
I have no green water as well and have been feeding them seachem phytoplankton marine, no water changes in, and I have a a very large population that is still thriving.
I am very confused and perplexed that they’re even alive, I fully accepted that they would be dead by day 2 or 3 but it’s day 10 now.
Wish me luck!
Some of you might remember u/shrimpshedmi’s post about the 3D-printable zoea trap we’ve been working on. With his help testing it and refining the design, I now have the print files available on my website! 🦐
Big thanks to u/shrimpshedmi for helping move this from a design on a screen to something being put to use with actual larvae.
You can find the files here:
Introverted Invertebrates — 3D Prints
If you print one and give it a go, I’d love to hear how it works in your setup. Feedback, photos, and ideas for improvements are all welcome. Hopefully this helps a few more of us tackle the larval side of shrimp breeding!