Crs or Bee shrimp maximum temperature

[chumzhujun]

I have a 2 feet set up with a fan which can bring temperature down to 26-27degree,so am I.able to.keep the shrimp stated above?

Thanks.

[eviltrain]

You can keep lower grades crs at the temperature you mentioned. But one thing to look out for, fan will drop water level and eventually screw up the water parameters.

[curryfishhead]

You can keep lower grades crs at the temperature you mentioned. But one thing to look out for, fan will drop water level and eventually screw up the water parameters.

I believe you are referring to the water top up for the tank due to evaporation caused by the fan? Many of the fellow bros here are without chillers and keeping the CRS at this temperature range.

Can help to highlight what are the potential problems so that we can be prepared for it?

Many tks in advance.

Happy Shrimping...

[eviltrain]

hee hee, i still prefer prevention over preparation.

i heard of people using fan and can results of loosing 2-3 cm per day. for a standard 2 feet ( 60x30x45cm =81 litres. loosing 2-3 cm is around 3.6 to 5.4 litres per day. 3.6 - 5.4litres is 4.44% to 6.66% of the overall water in the tank )

normally we water change around 10-20% weekly. if we keep on topping up and the fan keep evaporating the water, the water will just more and more hard.

i see no point saving for expensive live stocks, they will drop like flies if they have problem moulting due to the hard water.

just me 0.01 cent

[curryfishhead]

So, it means that if we can maintain the temperature of 26C -28C and maintain a GH of 6 (maybe up to , it should be okay?

Too bad for pple like us without OC approval for chillers, topping up water with low grade CRS is the next best thing..

Happy Shrimping...

[eviltrain]

Err, crs need gh of between 4-6. Not 6-8.

Yes, if im not wrong, some lower grades are able to breed in temperature of 26-27 degree c

[chumzhujun]

What is considered low grade?

[eviltrain]

the low grades are C / B / A grades for CRS.

[frostbyte88]

Snow white/golden shrimps are fine at this temperature range as well. For water hardness perhaps you might want to try topping up with distilled water since it has 0 tds

[chumzhujun]

Sorry off topic as I do not want to open another pointless to you all.but very important for me:-D

Can I mix green gex with red gex? In a shrimp tank?

[eviltrain]

New setup or already have 1 type in tank?

[chumzhujun]

Already have red.

[eviltrain]

better not if your tank is matured if you pouring all in one shot. the new soil will release ammonia that will harm your existing faunas in your tank.

[chumzhujun]

Then what should I do?

[Starlett]

What I did before when I wanted to top up my soil, was to throw in bit by bit.
For 2 days, I will drop in a teaspoon, then do water change after 2 days.
Then 1 week later, drop in another teaspoon for 2 days again, and water change again and so on...

[PKB]

I keep CRS in 26 - 28 Degree temperature in the past. Shrimp was able to survive for about 6 - 9 months but no breeding. I am using a fan for my 2 FT tank was daily top up was 2L of water per day.
It was a planted tank with CO2 injection.

[vannel]

I've posted quite a few times on related topics. My tank is low-tech, non-chiller. During the day, I switch on the Dymax fan to maintain temperature at 28deg. At night, my aircon is on and the temperature will drop to about 26deg w/o the Dymax fan running. I also have one of those wooden airstones constantly on low power to produce very fine bubbles.

Livestock includes multiple S - SS grade CRS, an A grade CBS, a Golden, an OEBT, multiple Fire Reds, multiple Yellows/Greens.
Setup is a 50 x 29 x 29 (42L) tank, BeniBachi Crimson Bee soil, Eheim 2222, 2 x Dymax Robot LEDs, Dymax HOB cooling fan.

Thus far, I have 2-3 successful births of shrimplets from my CRS and Fire Reds (approx 3-5mths of keeping them). While the number of shrimplets might not be as high as I would like, they are surviving and growing well in my tank now. In fact, I have 1 more CRS and 1 more CBS berried currently. So, I dont think it's going to be a problem keeping better grade shrimps than C/B/A graders in waters up to 30deg. If they can survive, they will probably breed. Might take some time for them to acclimatise to the water temperature, but it'll happen if you keep the water quality high. Might just try getting 1-2 PRLs in future (anyone wanna contribute to my experiment..? ) to prove my theory. Just hoping the male OEBT gets his groove on and make me some TiBees for now..

[globalcookie]

I have a 2 feet set up with a fan which can bring temperature down to 26-27degree,so am I.able to.keep the shrimp stated above?

Something I find important, but lacking in quite a few pple's tank. "Keep temperature consistent". 26-27 degrees can still keep CRS, but not sure if they will breed or if their lifespan will be affected.

Then what should I do?

Topping up new soil to existing tank? Have you consider, 'cycling' the new soil? That means, soak the potion you want to top u in a pail with aeration for 1-2wks, change water, aerate it for another 1-2wks. Than use it to top up. This can help eleminate the amonia problem.