My humble CRS

[Ecalyte]

Very nice BDS!!! LOVE them to BITS!! HAHA..Hopefully your problems are all solved and they will be happily living and breeding away in your tank!

Thanks!

Actually.. I'm seeing regular molting here and there. But just today after light's on, I see another dead juvenile BKK with a cracked shell. Is there an inherent molting problem with BKK? Or am I missing something here? My BKK are the only ones having this molting issue.. I also happened to pick up a molt with eggs I wanted to know what it was as it looked weird and not like a normal molt, then I saw the eggs... I know it's BKK because the molt is brown-tinged.. The mama didn't die though because I did a head count on all the BKK I had

[gryphon]

Thanks!

Actually.. I'm seeing regular molting here and there. But just today after light's on, I see another dead juvenile BKK with a cracked shell. Is there an inherent molting problem with BKK? Or am I missing something here? My BKK are the only ones having this molting issue.. I also happened to pick up a molt with eggs I wanted to know what it was as it looked weird and not like a normal molt, then I saw the eggs... I know it's BKK because the molt is brown-tinged.. The mama didn't die though because I did a head count on all the BKK I had

Very strange GH 3 should not be a problem. Hope those bros who breed BKK can advise

[cheetf]

Good to see that your water problem is solved. Did you get any pretty snow white offspring come out of the flowerheads? If so how many percent?

[Ecalyte]

Good to see that your water problem is solved. Did you get any pretty snow white offspring come out of the flowerheads? If so how many percent?

Thanks!

Actually my CRS haven't given birth yet.. but my BDS FH / BKK tank have about 6 spawns already.. from the BDS side I haven't gotten a single snow white, but oddly enough.. a couple of CRS haha! I also have 2-3 hino with a blue tinge, but they're too small to judge if they're hino KK! Maybe just some gene shrimp.. I think my CRS should spawn in a week or so (fingers crossed!)

[cheetf]

Cool, that's good to hear. Should get bro Alvin to take more pictures.

[gryphon]

Hope they are hino KK. Should be very difficult to photograph such small shrimplets. Easier to wait a while longer when they are bigger and colors come out more

[Ecalyte]

Managed to catch a snapshot of one of my pregnant flowerheads. Since my aquarium light is too strong and always give me over-exposed pictures, I used a torch light to shine a light from the top of the tank and then recorded a video on the iPhone. Paused the video and took a screenshot of the frame I liked the most (Thanks to advice from the bros here)



Hope you like it! The picture quality is still a bit blurred, haha!

[rolex]

Managed to catch a snapshot of one of my pregnant flowerheads. Since my aquarium light is too strong and always give me over-exposed pictures, I used a torch light to shine a light from the top of the tank and then recorded a video on the iPhone. Paused the video and took a screenshot of the frame I liked the most (Thanks to advice from the bros here)



Hope you like it! The picture quality is still a bit blurred, haha!

this piece is very nice!
Congrats and thanks for sharing.
happy shrimping

[newlife]

Beautiful piece of FlowerHead...
Bkk common problem...molting...

[gryphon]

Beautiful mama. Your shrimplets doing well?
1 of my CRS gave birth already, but so far only spotted 1 shrimplet

Managed to catch a snapshot of one of my pregnant flowerheads. Since my aquarium light is too strong and always give me over-exposed pictures, I used a torch light to shine a light from the top of the tank and then recorded a video on the iPhone. Paused the video and took a screenshot of the frame I liked the most (Thanks to advice from the bros here)



Hope you like it! The picture quality is still a bit blurred, haha!

[Ecalyte]

Beautiful mama. Your shrimplets doing well?
1 of my CRS gave birth already, but so far only spotted 1 shrimplet

Hey bro! Yea! My shrimplets are doing well! Except for the BKK.. I think they're all kapoot already Can't seem to spot any of them! But on a lighter note, I still have 4 berried KK mamas, hopefully their brood have a better survival rate?

Anyway these days my shrimps are in a photo-mood. Too bad I don't have DSLR to take pictures so I had to make do with the same method I used as above

Here are a couple of my studs

FH with deep red legs


FH with really thick white body and nice head pattern. Almost a twin of the FH mama I posted earlier! The FH above him in the picture is another berried mama..


Also.. I saw 2 FH shrimplets! Looks like my FH genes are not so bad after all! Haha.. The other shrimps are all SS, 5 of them. Only one berried mama spawned so far.. I think one more is due in the next few days!

[gryphon]

This few weeks I am tied up at work, I will see if end of the month I can spare a few hours on weekdays afternoon to go help you take some photos.
Good FH genes
Maybe you can try adding a sponge filter which will help with the oxygen flow of your tank given your CO2 level should be quite high

[Ecalyte]

Hey bro! Yea! My shrimplets are doing well! Except for the BKK.. I think they're all kapoot already Can't seem to spot any of them! But on a lighter note, I still have 4 berried KK mamas, hopefully their brood have a better survival rate?

Anyway these days my shrimps are in a photo-mood. Too bad I don't have DSLR to take pictures so I had to make do with the same method I used as above

Here are a couple of my studs

FH with deep red legs


FH with really thick white body and nice head pattern. Almost a twin of the FH mama I posted earlier! The FH above him in the picture is another berried mama..


Also.. I saw 2 FH shrimplets! Looks like my FH genes are not so bad after all! Haha.. The other shrimps are all SS, 5 of them. Only one berried mama spawned so far.. I think one more is due in the next few days!

Haha this is how bad I am at sexing shrimps. The first picture is actually a female and she just got berried. She never show any indication of a saddle at all.. haha!

[Jianyuan]

nice berried mamas!!

[Ecalyte]

Err... super epic fail on my part. The second shrimp in the picture is ALSO a female and is now berried.

So this means that I only have the one male in the tank and the rest are females -_-

Lucky my male is a Benibachi flowerhead!

[eviltrain]

add more males lor, if not later your male shrimp legs weak.

[felix_fx2]

Holy cow. Sounds like forced/selective breeding.

[gryphon]

Wow so lucky to get so many solid female flowerheads. Better get more males else he will be overworked

[Ecalyte]

I am decomming my tank. Reason? Increase of pH. Over the last couple of days my pH has been increasing. Then today it's increased from 7.0 to 7.4. HARDCORE -_-

I have no rocks in my tank, nothing that can attribute to an increase in pH. I use full biohome media in my canister, filter wool in my prefilter. I use ADA2 Amazonia soil at the base topped up with ADA2 Amazonia powder.

Until about 1-2 months ago, the front lawn partition of my tank has been empty. I filled it up with ADA 2 Amazonia powder. Before filling it up, my pH was 6.4ish. I HIGHLY suspect it's the ADA 2 Amazonia powder soil. Why? I set up an external breeding box and used ADA 2 Amazonia powder soil (same packet used as the front lawn). Filled it up with tank water. When I measured the tank water at 7.2, the pH in the breeder box (after 5 hours) was 7.4. AN INCREASE????

CURRENT PH PARAMETERS: Inside tank 7.40, External breeding box 7.46.

How can I isolate that this is a problem with the powder soil? My cull tank that is set up with the EXCESS ADA 2 Amazonia (Normal) soil I had from filling up my 2ft tank is measured at 6.5 pH! (Using the SAME pH meter). So even IF my pH meter was calibrated wrongly, there is a difference of 1 pH. The cull tank was started using water from my main tank roughly 2-3 months ago.

I decided that this soil is hardcore faulty. I have no idea why it would be like this. So, I will decom my tank and restart it when I come back from Hong Kong.

You know what's so sad about this? I have about 8-10 CRS Flowerhead shrimplets that are damned solid. The white is super thick, the red is deep. redsuns was over my place to see it.. WHAT A PITY. ARGHHHHH

Sorry, emo-ing.

Byebye CRS and BDS flowerheads, byebye KK

[bai]

I am decomming my tank. Reason? Increase of pH. Over the last couple of days my pH has been increasing. Then today it's increased from 7.0 to 7.4. HARDCORE -_-

I have no rocks in my tank, nothing that can attribute to an increase in pH. I use full biohome media in my canister, filter wool in my prefilter. I use ADA2 Amazonia soil at the base topped up with ADA2 Amazonia powder.

Until about 1-2 months ago, the front lawn partition of my tank has been empty. I filled it up with ADA 2 Amazonia powder. Before filling it up, my pH was 6.4ish. I HIGHLY suspect it's the ADA 2 Amazonia powder soil. Why? I set up an external breeding box and used ADA 2 Amazonia powder soil (same packet used as the front lawn). Filled it up with tank water. When I measured the tank water at 7.2, the pH in the breeder box (after 5 hours) was 7.4. AN INCREASE????

CURRENT PH PARAMETERS: Inside tank 7.40, External breeding box 7.46.

How can I isolate that this is a problem with the powder soil? My cull tank that is set up with the EXCESS ADA 2 Amazonia (Normal) soil I had from filling up my 2ft tank is measured at 6.5 pH! (Using the SAME pH meter). So even IF my pH meter was calibrated wrongly, there is a difference of 1 pH. The cull tank was started using water from my main tank roughly 2-3 months ago.

I decided that this soil is hardcore faulty. I have no idea why it would be like this. So, I will decom my tank and restart it when I come back from Hong Kong.

You know what's so sad about this? I have about 8-10 CRS Flowerhead shrimplets that are damned solid. The white is super thick, the red is deep. redsuns was over my place to see it.. WHAT A PITY. ARGHHHHH

Sorry, emo-ing.

Byebye CRS and BDS flowerheads, byebye KK

Sorry to hear that you have loss so many of your nice shrimps.

By the way I also using ADA powder having this problem increase of PH maybe this batch of soil came in not so good. The normal ADA is still ok.