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Very detailed write up there.
However it will be better of you to provide more readings like PH, GH, KH, and if possible TDS as a reference for those interested in breeding sulawesi shrimps.
New home of the sulawesi, a 2 feet tank.
Finally decided to move the Sulawesi shrimps to a bigger home. The current shrimps population has tripled, and were cramped in the few rocks crevices. There were also some berried females.
Also need a new scape that I can admire them more easily. So I planned on a new scape with river sand substrate and some interesting rock scape.
6 weeks prior to the move..
Recommissioned my 2 ft tank, light and airpump. Took it out from the store room. Place it on the bay window.
Bought the following:
1 bag of river sand
1 bag of crushed coral chips.
2 kg bag of gex soil for planting.
1 new hang on waterfall filter
2 airstones.
Some rocks.
Collected some large coral rocks from the beach.
1st Week.
Step 1. Washed all the rocks, chips and substrates.
Step 2. Place the gex soil at both ends of the tank.
Step 3. Positioned 2 airstones and tubes at 2 corners of the tank.
Step 4. Cut out a large piece of very dirty, old filter media (sponge) from the goldfish tank. Squeeue the mulm onto the tank base, and retained the old filter media for later use.
Step 5. Covered the base of the tank and the mulm with the crushed coral chips.
Step 6. Covered the crushed coral chips with river sand. ( I prefer the river sand to be on top, as I found that shrimplets are tiny enough to be trapped between the larger coral chips.)
Step 7. Positioned the rocks and the coral rocks.
Step 8. Transferred water from the existing sulawesi nano tank to the new tank. This was done over a 2 weeks period, and I mananged to get the new tank filled 3/5 full.
Step 9. Place the older filter media and mixed in some new filter sponge into the hang on waterfall filter. Started the filter, started the airpump.
Step 10. Planted some hairgrass, some dwarf sag and crypts in the gex soil.
Step 11. Made some adjustment to the scape until I was somewhat satisfied. The new scape should allow me to easily see the inhabitants and pleasing to the eye.
End of 2 weeks. Algae starts growing on the surface of the tank glass and on the rocks.
3rd Week.
Bought 3 sulawesi snails (yellow rabbit snails) from C328, and put them in the new tank. They are crawling all over.
4th Week.
Measured the water parameters. Zero ammonia, nitrite, nitrate.
Moved 2 zebra nerites, 5 horned bumblebee nerites from the existing sulawesi nano tank over to the new tank to feed on the algae. Moved 1 sulawesi cardinal shrimp to the new tank. It survived.
6th Week.
Time for the Sulawesi shrimps transfer.
Moved more water from the existing nano tank to the new 2 feet tank. The new tank is now 3/4 filled.
Carefully removed some rocks from the existing nano tank without stirring up the dirt.
This should make the shrimps easier to spot and catch.
Lowered a transparent glass cup into the tank, and tease the adults to go into the glass cup.
Once they were in, I quickly moved them to the new 2 ft tank. They were teased out of the cup, and swam onto the substrate.
This was done over 20 times to move all the adults.
The baby shrimplets are very small. Netted 6 of them with a fishnet and transferred them unceremoniously to the new tank. Too difficult to catch them otherwise.
Counted 32 shrimps, including the 6 shrimplets during the move.
7th Week.
The shrimps (cardinal and yellow cheeks) are all alive, no casualty. They are eating and molting just like what they do in their old tank. The berried females are still carrying their eggs, and nothing is dropped.
They are rather particular about real estate space. During the first week, they go around shopping for a new crevice as home. Once they find something they like, they lay claim to it and I suspect chase away other shrimps. You can see them waving their white antenna from the various crevices.
I place their food in front of the tank nightly, on the substrate and do see them coming out to eat them.
The old nano tank is decommissioned. It will be home for my colony of sakura shrimps.
Old home of the sulawesi, the 1 feet tank
Last edited by sthh; 17th Aug 2009 at 16:42.
Very detailed write up there.
However it will be better of you to provide more readings like PH, GH, KH, and if possible TDS as a reference for those interested in breeding sulawesi shrimps.
Have been trying to buy the PH kit. Seems like the API version comes with 2 version, but the range is abit strange. Will go shop around some more this weekend. So far, I only have the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate test kits from API.
My fish friends --------------------------------
1 goldfish tank
1 discus tank
Keep your 1 feet running and leave some of the shrimps in there.
A complete move can sometimes be...
Good luck.
There can only be ONE
API has one that test the gh and kh only. Over the weekend i think im going look out for one too. Make sure the one you bought has the batch lot of recent dates.Originally Posted by sthh
API has NH3/4, NO2, NO3 and many others beside kH/GH.
Interesting adventure
Thanks for sharing!
Got the PH test kit from Sera. PH reading is 8.5.
My fish friends --------------------------------
1 goldfish tank
1 discus tank
Some updates.. there are new birth in the tank from the females cardinal and the golden rabbit snails. I don't really know how many shrimplets there are, but I can count 2 golden rabbit snails babies.
Shrimplet smaller than a grain of river sand.
Tiny golden rabbit snail baby crawling on the tank
My fish friends --------------------------------
1 goldfish tank
1 discus tank
How do this "golden rabbit snails" look like?
Can show a picture of the adult snail?
Bro, can show us an adult sulawesi shrimp?
Just curious how they look like
Couple of Sulawesi Cardinals coming out in the day
A golden rabbit snail crawling around
Will try to take pictures of the Yellow Cheek and the Yellow Stripes after I come back from reservist.
My fish friends --------------------------------
1 goldfish tank
1 discus tank
Thanks for sharing. may i know how do u do water changes?
Be careful when doing water changes with Sulawesi shrimps. My experiences is that they don't like sudden changes in the water. I used to lost few shrimps every time I did water changes. Best use dripping method for this "very" sensitive shrimps
Couple of Sulawesi Cardinals coming out in the day
A golden rabbit snail crawling around
Will try to take pictures of the Yellow Cheek and the Yellow Stripes after I come back from reservist.
Bro,
Very impressive!
Thanks for sharing the pic
How do I get the PH up?
Beside coral chip.
Wow, beautiful tank and shrimps. Never was able to keep these beauties alive myself : /
Cheers,
Bernard
Kept (no more) Betta persephone, B. miniopinna, B. sp. palangkaraya, B. uberis, B. channoides, B. burdigala
Pseudepiplatys annulatus, Nannostomus eques
Wow making me so interested to start one tank for these beauties.
CRS Haven had some coral sand since they housed their shrimps in. Thinking of getting and starting.
I just started mine.
What tank size are you looking at?
I am looking at ~1ft.
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