My humble CRS

[eviltrain]

oh, if you need the wire mesh cut to size to fit there, call me at 83380543. give me the dimension, length, height, thickness of the glass.

[Guppy77]

hi there, the moss wall looks good, is that plastic mesh ?

[Ecalyte]

hi there, the moss wall looks good, is that plastic mesh ?

Hi bro! The moss wall was tied on a steel mesh before it was tied onto a plastic mesh. This is because if the steel mesh was left alone, it would eventually warp over time due to the size of the mesh (42x37cm).

Unfortunately though.. after a while I started seeing browning of the moss and it was spreading; slowly but surely. bro nasty12 helped me to untie and re-tie the moss wall and to our shock.. the steel mesh was rusted in the area where my moss was browning.

Maybe the rust was killing the moss? I couldn't be sure, but it's looking very likely.. so we re-tied it. Now it looks like crap Just waiting for it to grow....

[eviltrain]

Rust? You better keep a look out on your shrimps. Im worry about some metal leak into the water column. Better add some active carbon to absorb it.

[rcw]

simply nice scape! easy maintenance.lovely CRS

[Ecalyte]

Rust? You better keep a look out on your shrimps. Im worry about some metal leak into the water column. Better add some active carbon to absorb it.

It's been out for over 3 weeks now, no casualties... I guess i dodged a bullet? haha..

[eviltrain]

Wa. Then u really lucky. Haha

[goody992828]

Wow finally saw your project out with nice setup and great looking shrimp.... power......

[newlife]

Really understand your efforts in those FlowerHead you have...
Sourcing for a real solid white FlowerHead is indeed very hard...
Mostly yellowish due to high golden gene...

But have all as FlowerHead in a tank...don't you have a higher % of SnowWhite/golden offspring???

[Ecalyte]

no idea really.. my first batch is due in a few days.. but as I personally haven't ventured into PRL having a snow white / golden offspring is not an issue to me..

This tank is not for selective breeding, it's for my personal viewing pleasure.. haha. Most of the offsprings are going to be A-SS grade. Very rarely i will get SSS or flowerhead offsprings..

I think I should have ventured into PRL, the amount of money I spent in culling so many flowerheads due to lack of thick whiteness could have bought me 2 tanks full of PRLs.. haha! But as it is.. I love flowerheads a lot more than PRLs. Maybe my taste will change soon as have everyone in this hobby..

There have been a lot of progress with this tank in terms of its inhabitants etc, I have a lot of very thick white flowerheads now and to add to that, 7 of my female flowerheads are pregnant, but I'm afraid to post updates.. I'm sure with the recent events you'll understand why..

So probably I'll just keep it to myself for now...

[Oliverpool]

Fantastic tank and shrimps Bro Ecalyte! Looking forward to your updates soon.

[RonWill]

...but I'm afraid to post updates.. I'm sure with the recent events you'll understand why.. So probably I'll just keep it to myself for now

Whatever happened recently has little bearing on your collection of flowerheads. I'm inclined towards these as well, for their uniqueness but to embark on procuring them will be excruciatingly painful on a salaried person's wallet.

I'm still working out plans for a 4-tier 2ft recirculating system with full-seal partition and individual overflow bulkheads. It will incorporate PVC manifolds for drainage, return and air. The setup is likely for breeding fishes but will consider lugging out a Teco RA680 from the storeroom if shrimping, so do post updates.

[eviltrain]

Whatever happened recently has little bearing on your collection of flowerheads. I'm inclined towards these as well, for their uniqueness but to embark on procuring them will be excruciatingly painful on a salaried person's wallet.

I'm still working out plans for a 4-tier 2ft recirculating system with full-seal partition and individual overflow bulkheads. It will incorporate PVC manifolds for drainage, return and air. The setup is likely for breeding fishes but will consider lugging out a Teco RA680 from the storeroom if shrimping, so do post updates.

woot. Seems like you also caught the shrimp poison. XD. Please post a journal too!!!

Bro Ecalyte, just post la. Yours are completely different from what happen recently.

[RonWill]

Alan, nothing to woot about... yet! Poison not deep enough unless you care to guide me?

[newlife]

Bro Ronnie...Awaiting for your setup journal journey to began...
Moral support to you...hee hee...

Bro Ecalyte...your FlowerHead has nothing to do with PRL....totally 2 different issue...
I'm once a FlowerHead Siao...花痴...hee hee....Alan should know about it...
Just update....I wanna know the outcome result...

[binniez]

Yeah bro! Do let us know see the offsprings! Bound to be some bueatiful pieces from so many FH mamas. Hehe! Drools~

[Ecalyte]

Actually just today I'm sad to report 2 deaths from my CRS FH partition, and 2 deaths from my BKK/BDS partition. My solid solid BDS FH stud and extreme BKK have died It's molting issues.. I have no idea how my GH has increased since I have no rock in the set up at all. These deaths also only happened today, and prior I've seen regular molting. Ugh

Can CO2 cause an increase in GH/KH? Anyways.. going to do 20% water change on a 2-day basis in an attempt to bring the GH/KH down before more casualties. The mamas from my CRS side are still alive..

[Oliverpool]

Actually just today I'm sad to report 2 deaths from my CRS FH partition, and 2 deaths from my BKK/BDS partition. My solid solid BDS FH stud and extreme BKK have died It's molting issues.. I have no idea how my GH has increased since I have no rock in the set up at all. These deaths also only happened today, and prior I've seen regular molting. Ugh

Can CO2 cause an increase in GH/KH? Anyways.. going to do 20% water change on a 2-day basis in an attempt to bring the GH/KH down before more casualties. The mamas from my CRS side are still alive..

That's sad. I have never heard of co2 increasing GH/KH. Since you have no rocks the other suspect is the soil. Initially I had a Yamato and 3 of my cherry die on me right after they molted. Why? I suspected it was due to the Ada Amazonia hardness lowering ability. My GH/KH was both zero. I have since increased my GH to around 3 but still unable to much about my KH and it's at one or so. But no shrimp molting issue since then.

[avex30]

Actually just today I'm sad to report 2 deaths from my CRS FH partition, and 2 deaths from my BKK/BDS partition. My solid solid BDS FH stud and extreme BKK have died It's molting issues.. I have no idea how my GH has increased since I have no rock in the set up at all. These deaths also only happened today, and prior I've seen regular molting. Ugh

Can CO2 cause an increase in GH/KH? Anyways.. going to do 20% water change on a 2-day basis in an attempt to bring the GH/KH down before more casualties. The mamas from my CRS side are still alive..

Bro Ecalyte maybe you want read the recent issue on soil depleting? How long did you have your soil in the tank? type of soil used? Err media? i read somewhere some media can raise GH issue. Did you add any new media?

[Zenith82]

Super beautiful, thick white, flower head. Great shrimps...