The price you mentioned are for the tank only (without wrough iron stand) I suppose? At slightly more than $200 for your 4ft tank, I think the price seems reasonable.
Where did you custom your tank? Or is the price quite common among tank makers?
I just decommission a 1ft setup. I can try do some calculation if I can also decommission my 2ft and replace it with a 3ft tank.
The price is for the tank only. I think the price should be roughly the same among tank makers. Had mine made at Y618 where I bought the bulk of my stuff from.Originally Posted by globalcookie
Heh I think getting a huge enough tank will keep you away from the urge of upgrading again in the near future. But seems I'm wrong after seeing Jojoe's setup!
The poison for this hobby is not upgrading to bigger tank is adding more bigger tank...lol
Join me and we build shrimp rack together
CRS - CRazy about Shrimps
- Alan Phang -
You can't explain it simply, you don't understand it (well enough )..." - Albert Einstein
The problem with upgrading is never ending. I am tempted to get a 3ft partitioned tank maybe with 3 partitioned areas (2 small, 1 large) if I would like to try selective breeding.
But than again, I could use those isolation tank (breeding containers) if I am just doing selective for fun.
problem is CRS will need large amount of water to be more stress free( in my case ). Those small tanks will be difficult to keep their temperature low.
CRS - CRazy about Shrimps
- Alan Phang -
You can't explain it simply, you don't understand it (well enough )..." - Albert Einstein
Some updates, took these photos over a period of time but haven't gotten the time to post them so here goes:
Did away with the 'sump' because of fear of the pump failing anytime. Added insulation to the pipes to keep the water cold for a longer period of time.
Made quite a few changes to the flora in the tank too.
Partition 1 (yellow shrimps and lousier grade CRS which i do not want to breed):
Partition 2 (A-S grade Pure Red Line):
Grazing on star moss, which is my favourite now!
PRL shrimplet!
Partition 3 (snow whites):
Partition 4 (fire reds/mosuras):
Some observations:
1) Yellow shrimps in my CRS tank seems to be breeding much faster than those kept in normal temperature of about 28-29C when it used to be the other way round.
2) Pure red lines, though the nicest to look at, are breeding VERY VERY slowly. Till now, I've only seen about 5 shrimplets or so. Their 'berry-ing' rate is also very slow with many mature females running around not carrying eggs.
3) Snow whites are also super inactive (they don't respond readily to food that I throw in) and somehow I think its due to the dense moss that is in the partition with an abundance of algae for them to eat. A small number of them also have parts of shells that are transparent, which I threw into the first partition.
4) Fire reds are very hard to breed, for me at least. Very hard to find good and fertile males to throw inside with the females. The mosuras on the other hand, have given me quite a number of shrimplets.
5) I've realised that the partitions with neocaridinas (red and yellow shrimps) are much 'cleaner' than the partitions without them, in the sense that there is totally no algae growing in those partitions.
6) I've also been battling this critter that thrives in my tank.
Silver and grows up to 1cm long and scurries around quite swiftly between plants and under driftwood. Very much like silverfish that you see in old books. The only way i can catch them up is to either suck them with a tube or using tweezers. Despite me checking the tank everyday and catching a few each time, their population doesn't seem to diminish. Very irritating.
Anyone knows what this is called and have any remedies for it?
Wow nice shrimp...I like the Pure Red Line.....Hope I will have some in my future tankset which will be doing soon.
I think the fire red don't respond well to the temperture as the same as your mosuras thats why it don't breed too well.
Very nice shrimps
very nice! feels like watching fish at Underwater world.
hi, i want to do something like yours. but can u teach me?
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Hmmm.. I seem to have that sliver bug in my tank too.. There is nothing that will kill them though.. I tried vermax, febendenzol but nothing seem to work.. And they really seem to multiply very fast.. I should be tearing down that tank when i get a new one running.. Very unsightly to look at.. Any bros with this problem? Any method to remove them?
Mad about shrimps!
Robin
well done, nice setup ... keep it up...
That silver bug is a gammarus, I find them sensitive to medication, more so than shrimps. My fish likes to eat them.
Hmmm.. Not responding as well as i would like them to be.. Not even a full dose of vermax will kill them..
Mad about shrimps!
Robin
Sorry guys was away on a long trip.
Very nice shrimpsThanks guys!
Mm that might be the case. My second generation of yellow shrimps are also not breeding as well as the first generation. Might be the cause of inbreeding.. Anyone has nice yellows to let go so I can inject a new line of genes?
Have emailed you!
They have multiplied exponentially while I was gone for 2 weeks. Spent the whole of yesterday picking them out from my tank. I've tried fenbendezol on my tank but that only seems to remove the planarias and hydras. The only way for me now is to pick them out with tweezers individually and throw them into my fishtank. I think there should be a medication in the market that targets only gammarus right?
Had nothing to do this morning so took some shots!
One of my favourite flowerheads so far.
This is the partition where I keep my PRL and super yellow shrimps. I have only 2 females and 1 male of this colour intensity so I'm hoping that they breed!
Great to see your success on PRL.2 thumbs up
Haha not as much as yours! Mine are breeding very very slowly!
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