Second attempt at CRS tank in the office!

[seudzar]

Just saw an orangey worm attached to my shrimplet and the shrimplet sprung up (with the wrom still attached to it). The worm is even longer than my shrimplet.

I manually separated them and let the shrimplet back into the tank. but it just sank to the bottom slowly, lifeless and within one min, an adult came and ate it. sobs. It was a beautiful piece, with potentially more white

What is this worm and is it dangerous? Should I be worrying now?

Yes.... sounds like a planaria, if there is one, there maybe more, should keep a look out for more.

[Zoshie]

Hi Hui Zhong,

the boss told me it is coral tree / branch.. love it too!

any idea where else (other than CRS Haven) got sell this coral tree / branch...

[reiner09]

Just saw an orangey worm attached to my shrimplet and the shrimplet sprung up (with the wrom still attached to it). The worm is even longer than my shrimplet.

I manually separated them and let the shrimplet back into the tank. but it just sank to the bottom slowly, lifeless and within one min, an adult came and ate it. sobs. It was a beautiful piece, with potentially more white

What is this worm and is it dangerous? Should I be worrying now?

hmm..maybe you should take a picture of that so called orange worm.. is it very big? try to manually take them out as much as possible and reduce feeding..

[zibbie]

any idea where else (other than CRS Haven) got sell this coral tree / branch...

Hi Zoshie, I havent seen it at any where else... ranges from sgd 12 - 28 depending on size...

[zibbie]

horrors of all horrors!!!

I saw something crawling on the soil and onto my branch. It was whitish looking, like centipede. Super long. I totally freaked out. GOSH. Asked my male colleague to get it out for me. Thank God for male colleagues!!!

The smaller one I caught the other day looks like this, but is only 2 cm. And maybe without the spikes.

This one here, is a broken piece, its rear was thrown away, i cannot bear to look at it. Goosebumps. So technically speaking, this is the other half body. I think it is about 10 - 15 cm (***) full length.

I wonder if this worm is common and how it grew so long and huge? Can it multiply? (I cant bear the thoughts of having more of these in the tank, I am so freaked out still I think I might give up on shrimping)

I dont feed live food to my shrimps. I think the worm might have eaten my shrimplets, they are disappearing by the days.

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[reiner09]

horrors of all horrors!!!

I saw something crawling on the soil and onto my branch. It was whitish looking, like centipede. Super long. I totally freaked out. GOSH. Asked my male colleague to get it out for me. Thank God for male colleagues!!!

The smaller one I caught the other day looks like this, but is only 2 cm. And maybe without the spikes.

This one here, is a broken piece, its rear was thrown away, i cannot bear to look at it. Goosebumps. So technically speaking, this is the other half body. I think it is about 10 - 15 cm (***) full length.

I wonder if this worm is common and how it grew so long and huge? Can it multiply? (I cant bear the thoughts of having more of these in the tank, I am so freaked out still I think I might give up on shrimping)

I dont feed live food to my shrimps. I think the worm might have eaten my shrimplets, they are disappearing by the days.

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you might want to refer to this.. it could be freshwater bristleworm.

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...aquarium/page4
post number #68 .. it is known to be harmful to shrimps.. might have came from plants you got outside..

[zibbie]

you might want to refer to this.. it could be freshwater bristleworm.

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...aquarium/page4
post number #68 .. it is known to be harmful to shrimps.. might have came from plants you got outside..

but no one is commenting on it

where can I find more information on it? Do you know what is it called?

GOSH

[reiner09]

but no one is commenting on it

where can I find more information on it? Do you know what is it called?

GOSH

mentioned in my previous post. Freshwater bristleworm..

[zibbie]

Back again, after a traumatic experience with the bristleworm last month. I think there are more hiding in the soil.

And I found another dead berried shrimp the next few days. Didnt know she was berried but when other shrimps were attacking it, I saw some eggs on her belly and also a cluster of those brownish eggs near her body. LE SIGHS. My second favourite shrimp I have a feeling that some thing / other shrimps keep attacking the berried ones, WHY?

So I am left with 2 striped and 1 whitish adults now. And the shrimplets have grown much bigger since the last time. I counted 8 pieces. Hopefully they survive!!

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An almost completed happy family. Quite happy family I think.

[zibbie]

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The Fire Yellow is berried again. I bought her when she was berried but she didnt make it to hatching her eggs. So its confirmed that the other one is a male. woohoo.

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The one and only one Blue Rili. Is berried 0.O Does Fire yellow and blue rili cross breed? The eggs look yellow enough. And seems like bursting out, like overloaded.

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Pair of mummies communicating. I suspect the father is the same. One has always twice the amount of eggs as compared to the other one.

Hope their pregnancy is smooth and no more cannibalization from fellow shrimps.

[Xmant]

Bro zibbie, yellow does cross with rili. They belonged to same family tree.
Most likely, you will get the wild form in the coming offsprings.

[reiner09]

Back again, after a traumatic experience with the bristleworm last month. I think there are more hiding in the soil.

And I found another dead berried shrimp the next few days. Didnt know she was berried but when other shrimps were attacking it, I saw some eggs on her belly and also a cluster of those brownish eggs near her body. LE SIGHS. My second favourite shrimp I have a feeling that some thing / other shrimps keep attacking the berried ones, WHY?

So I am left with 2 striped and 1 whitish adults now. And the shrimplets have grown much bigger since the last time. I counted 8 pieces. Hopefully they survive!!

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An almost completed happy family. Quite happy family I think.

how old are the shrimplets already? from the pictures they look more like juveniles already...
ehh and when a berried shrimp die there could be many reasons.. you will usually see shrimps attacking another when it is about to die/dead already.. so it is not because they attacked it then it dies(mama shrimps are actually quite fierce during conflicts as observed from my own tank)..

[zibbie]

Bro zibbie, yellow does cross with rili. They belonged to same family tree.
Most likely, you will get the wild form in the coming offsprings.

Sis* zibbie

cant wait to see what they become! that is, if they make it to hatching...

[zibbie]

how old are the shrimplets already? from the pictures they look more like juveniles already...
ehh and when a berried shrimp die there could be many reasons.. you will usually see shrimps attacking another when it is about to die/dead already.. so it is not because they attacked it then it dies(mama shrimps are actually quite fierce during conflicts)..

eh I think they were hatched since late Jun.. so two months max?

actually the last dead mummy has been very healthy, walking around with her eggs, strong colours too. But dead the next day, with the eggs clustered nearby, super saddening.
She was the only one who didnt 'lak sek' (lose colour) during berried.

I think my water parameters suck, because the CRS colours seems to be fading off as they grow older.

[zibbie]

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spot the intruder.

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Caught the bugger myself this time round. So proud of myself *gives myself a pat on the shoulder.

[zibbie]

This yellow mummy is so fertile. She just released her babies last week and she is berried again.
This morning when I saw her, she was still empty but after lunch, TADA, all the eggs parked nicely at the under belly.
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[alvinchan80]

Congrats on catching the freshwater bristleworm... Also on the berried mamas...

[Matt]

Congrats gal!! Glad to see a success story of nano shrimp tank in office!!

[14litre]

This yellow mummy is so fertile. She just released her babies last week and she is berried again.
This morning when I saw her, she was still empty but after lunch, TADA, all the eggs parked nicely at the under belly.

How I wished I have a shrimp like this one of yours. My shrimps were berried from the LFS. Either they dropped their eggs or given birth to the shrimplets (which I am still trying to find), now no more berried shrimps liao. Waiting and waiting and waiting... I want to see berried shrimps!! hehe...

[popimac]

Sorry to dig up an old thread but wondering if there is any update on this tank or already decom?

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