Starting a new Shrimp Tank

[Ifish]

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[AndyPeh]

beautiful & stunning collections. after years of hiatus from shrimp keeping, im really contemplating to come back.

my new job (cabin crew) makes it hard for me to maintain my predatory / pleco tank.. so i guess coming up with a solid system for a shrimp tank would be easier for me to maintain. what do you think?

anyway, love your website. you're a website designer?

Hey Wind! Glad I am the one that can infuse some venomous shrimp blood back into you. Remember you want that beautiful little things because they are a joy to keep. Succeeded yet? Haha!

On your new job and lack of time to mess around with the tank? Definitely man. The great thing about shrimp keeping is once you've got the foundations laid, then less is always more (fruitful) yea?
So on long haul flights you're good even you miss a week of WC, besides its always the itchy hands that harms the shrimps more so than the lack of it.

And nope unfortunately my talents only extends to watching youtube videos and learning how to edit wordpress templates lol. So yea most of it are done by the true designers and programmers I just learn well on adjusting to what I want.

[AndyPeh]

I've been reading this post for the past 2 hours! Seriously bro, YOU ARE GOOD! =D

cheers~

Thank you Jay! Would not have been made possible with the guidance of the true pros lurking in the midst of this forum.

[Aventador]

Nice collection of shrimps and congrats on the shrimplets... just started my shrimp tank and I hope to be able to run the tank like yours... learning new stuff everyday

[AndyPeh]

Nice collection of shrimps and congrats on the shrimplets... just started my shrimp tank and I hope to be able to run the tank like yours... learning new stuff everyday

Thank you and I certainly hope you will succeed on your tank too!

[Ifish]

Revisited your pics again, simply awesome!


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[AndyPeh]

Revisited your pics again, simply awesome!


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Thank you Ifish!

[WiNd08]

Hey Wind! Glad I am the one that can infuse some venomous shrimp blood back into you. Remember you want that beautiful little things because they are a joy to keep. Succeeded yet? Haha!

On your new job and lack of time to mess around with the tank? Definitely man. The great thing about shrimp keeping is once you've got the foundations laid, then less is always more (fruitful) yea?
So on long haul flights you're good even you miss a week of WC, besides its always the itchy hands that harms the shrimps more so than the lack of it.

And nope unfortunately my talents only extends to watching youtube videos and learning how to edit wordpress templates lol. So yea most of it are done by the true designers and programmers I just learn well on adjusting to what I want.

No more delays for me

Decomm'd my South American tank, removed my Overhead filter, added a Teco chiller, ehiem canister.

Re-did the soil with GEX Shrimp soil, and now my tank is cycling

With good faith, I should be testing out with commandos late next week.

Anddddd if everything goes well I'll be adding some shrimps from Hong Kong on my SIN-HKG-SFO-HKG-SIN Sector!

[Senses92]

Thanks for sharing. Very inspiring! Just started my tank and I hope I can have the same results as yours in 2 years time!

[AndyPeh]

Hello all! I have been out and about for abit and only been posting on the Facebook.
Just created a fun video on some of my shrimps with a good friend who runs a Videography business.



Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did making it!

[nicholasliao]

Link broken andy

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[AndyPeh]

Hey Nic! Thats strange though works ok when I click in on my comp and with the iPad.

Link broken andy

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[eugenecj]

hey andy bro, i'm curious about something, having so many different type of shrimp, won't they cross breed to wild shrimp?

[AndyPeh]

Hi Eugene! To clarify for the video I am keeping the Spotted Head Pintos (mix of males and females) in a tank with Taiwan Bees Females and F3 Pinto Gene Shrimp Females so while there might be cross breeding it is controlled cross breeding, while some culling might be required over time it is to the effect of refining the genes before I add even better ones to introduce and build immunity into the gene pool.

However if you do a quick google search you should be able to find shrimps that are good together, hope that clarifies and happy shrimping!


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Anyone can ID this worm that's floating? About few mm long and very thin. It wiggles.

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[AndyPeh]

They wiggle and swim in an S shape?
Those are a type of nematode. They are harmless.


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Is that good or bad news for a cycling tank? Lol

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[AndyPeh]

It doesn't mean much sadly lol. If you see copecods after a while that can be treated as a good sign.


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Aw. That's sad to know. Lol

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Sorry Andy. Realised I hijacked your thread. I've a thread that has similar name to yours. Lol

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