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Hi Bro Cheetf haha thank you for asking, think the appropriate term is Single Stripe King Kong instead.Originally Posted by cheetf
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Hi Bro Cheetf haha thank you for asking, think the appropriate term is Single Stripe King Kong instead.
Nice tank and shrimp
Thank you for the support!
Howdy Ho' Fellow Shrimples!
I have something awesome to share with you today! The very first copy of Breeders 'n' Keepers hit shores earlier this week and am super thankful to have someone in our community who could hook me up with a copy.
Kudos to Mr. Alvin Chan!
Here is a picture of my read of the week.
Nothing much went on this week and my apologies to all who have been following the blog for my absence the last few days.
Here are some of the things I did this week in periodical order.
Thursday - Water Change of 12% for Shadow Bee Shrimple Town
As always I followed the same regime of
Preparation of Aged Water -
2ml of API Stress Coat+
2.5 / 3 ml of FM100
Allowed to sit for 22-24 hours before WC
After WC followed up with dousing of
2g SMB
1g Humic Acid Powder
3ml B-Source (every 20L - 10ml ofB-Source)
Friday - Picked up my 2nd 2ft tank from a friend who was giving away his.
Saturday (Today) - Pumped 20ml of S1 into the tank, hopes this creates breeding water to simulate 1 or 2 big females on getting berried.
Pictures from Shirmple Town
King Kong and Shadow Panda
My Shadow Panda seems to have lost a little of its blue hue as it gets bigger. Anyone has any insights as to why this is happening?
Blue Bolt - Little Denim
Side Shot of the KK
Shadow Panda
Wine Red on the Verde
Small Shadow Panda
King Kong feeding on the Algae Wall
Couple of Shrimps enjoying a day out at the Rataj
It's Feeding Time!
A couple more pics on the A SHRIMPle Life Blog
Alright thats all for now, thank you for checking out the blog every now and then!
Out.
Beautiful shrimps. I like the wine red and blue bolt, solid blue. It is difficult to maintain such low ph. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the support and compliments.
Your pH can be easily maintained with Active Soil for shrimps (the one I use for mine) and things like Power House Soft Media.
TGIF
Hi All,
Now with every thing in Shrimple Town being stable, I started to discover that the most beautiful thing in shrimp keeping was never the final product.
The process that took me here will eventually gain dividends (in this case berries!) and when it comes it will definitely bring much joy.
However the most fun I had was definitely working out and establishing the art and science of making the perfect environment for the shrimps.
Temperature, Ammonia, Nitrate, pH, KH, GH and TDS not to mention getting the right plants - frogbits vs mini salvinias has all been part of a great learning session for me and a steep learning curve from my early days on the nano tank.
Now that is said I think in the end it is justification for me to set up another new tank!
Haha. Am still considering on what is next as I may not have as much time as I would like to do the weekly maintenance stuff with too many tanks to clean. Will work that out while I am on re-service next week.
Some pics of the blues.
Female Blue Bolt has been growing up well and fast
Mosura Flower Head Blue Bolt
The Blues feeding on some of their favourite LOWKEYS
Denim showed up at the dinner table and the rest scampered off - Like a boss!
Alright TGIF fellow Shrimples.
This is your friendly neighbourhood shrimple signing off.
AP out.
very nice shrimps!!
Thank you! Glad you liked the pics.
Cycle of Life
Que the Lion King song -
It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life
Last Sunday we witness a loss of a beautiful female.
Of whom I have placed great hopes on.
She was due to be the one that would bear the first offspring and the fruit of my labor (on the tank).
But all was not to be, gave her a proper burial, I told myself that through despair there will hope and decided to move on.
Here is to big hot red. Thank you for being a beauty while you lasted.
In her glory days
Hot Red you will be missed!
Back to the other residents of Shrimple town!
Blue Bolt Mosura
Panda
The lonely Wine Red Male now that his prospective mate has gone (He'll live to shag others)
Mr Hamburglar!
Got to love this pic of it.
Have got a whole series of him on the glass wall lol.
And down he came
My favorite of the Wine Reds
Wine Red Hinomaru
And here is why the Circle of Life song was so apt...
I noticed the Shrimps were 'dancing' on Sunday night was initially worried something might be wrong with the water, but on closer inspection I realized that only those I could ID as males were doing their little dance and most of the females were just going about with their thing.
I am lying if I said i did not run some water test to check if everything was good before I went to bed.
Yeap. I did. :P
Here were the results.
Nitrate (NO3) - 10-15 ppm (I need more plants)
Ammonia (NH3 / NH4+) - 0 ppm
GH - 5
KH -0
TDS - 159
PH - 5.4
Everything seemed well enough so left the tank alone and went to bed.
and Monday Morning they were still dancing I knew something was up and was waiting just to see which of the females would it be.
Without further blabbering -
A picture speaks a thousand words.
Hopefully it also signifies a thousand shrimps for me soon too.
Cheerios. Happy Shrimping.
Awesome bro. With one lost come many smiles indeed.
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Just to clarify I think I may have named it wrongly and it should be KK Shadow Mosura to be precise instead of Blue Bolt Mosura.
Apologise for any confusion I may have caused.
Haha Thanks Bro hope they will grow up well!
Shrimply Stunning Shots
My best friend who also happens to be a professional Videographer came over earlier for a photo shoot and I was blown away by the quality of pictures that we got at the end of it.
As usual I used some LOWKEYS food that the shrimps seem to love so much as bait.
Shrimply Stunning. Enjoy.
Thank you for viewing! Will share more pics tomorrow.
Till then remember your water change! And be nice to shrimps.
Andy Out.
Your shrimps are very swee.
Loving the wine reds
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Thank you bro Magpie
Haha Nic get your chiller soon!
Simply love your pics. Keep up the great work. ")
Thank you Skvin! Appreciate the support.
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