Neglected CRS

**nbs** · 28th Nov 2012, 23:27

No worries. I use teco chiller. My tanks are actually 3 tiered. Top tank for aging tap water. Bottom tank currently empty. Will prepare the bottom tank and move the shrimps.

**nbs** · 28th Nov 2012, 23:30

Thanks for advice. May I know what is the meaning of gene shrimps? Does it look pale and unattractive? I have quite a few. If I separate them, what kind of shrimp can I mixed them with so as to get more BKK?

**dnsfpl** · 29th Nov 2012, 14:46

uber envy

i never have luck with crs, will quit for good

**warrick75** · 29th Nov 2012, 15:20

Hi nbs, just curious, how long have you been neglecting them?

I think i should not fuss around and give them too much attention too, they might just do better haha.

**nbs** · 29th Nov 2012, 16:00

I start neglecting them after I have my first child. So around 2.5 years. My tank is actually full of algae. Now having some time to clean up. I think the key is I have a stable tank with 3 filters and 1 chiller. I wash my filters twice a year. Most of the time I am not around except on weekends.

**huizhong** · 3rd Dec 2012, 20:43

Gene shrimps are offsprings of bkk/wr cross normal crs/bds. The gene shrimps will look like any other normal crs/bds. Can't differentiate them.
So if you cross 2 gene shrimps, you may get 25%(theoretically) bkk/wr, and the rest are gene shrimps(50% theoretically) and normal shrimps(25% theoretically).
So if you want to get higher population of bkk/wr, then maybe you want to separate the bkk/wr. Because bkk/wr cross bkk/wr would give u 100% bkk/wr and sometimes blue bolt if they carries the blue bolt gene.

**huizhong** · 3rd Dec 2012, 20:47

The bkk/wr appeared in your tank because in the first place there could be some gene shrimps(very few) in your tank and they happened to mate with each other and produced these few bkk/wr for you. You are lucky but nowadays many crs and bds carries the gene as more people are keeping bkk/wr and accidental crossing happens.

**Jay91** · 4th Dec 2012, 01:11

WOW! I'm so confused! Too chim(profound) for me to understand.

**nbs** · 4th Dec 2012, 19:13

Thanks for the input. Really interesting. I saw some Snow Whites that are look a bit blue on the face in my tank. Guess these shrimps have genes of blue bolts? Is it helpful to buy more of such shrimps to mix with the BKK?

**reiner09** · 4th Dec 2012, 19:50

Originally Posted by nbs

Thanks for the input. Really interesting. I saw some Snow Whites that are look a bit blue on the face in my tank. Guess these shrimps have genes of blue bolts? Is it helpful to buy more of such shrimps to mix with the BKK?

sorry was busy with exams thus did not reply for sometime..but what bro huizhong said is very detailed and concise..
snow whites with blue tints do indeed have BB genes..you can cross it with bkks/bb to get ( bkk with blue tints on white /normal bkk / BB offsprings)

**huizhong** · 6th Dec 2012, 11:22

Originally Posted by nbs

Thanks for the input. Really interesting. I saw some Snow Whites that are look a bit blue on the face in my tank. Guess these shrimps have genes of blue bolts? Is it helpful to buy more of such shrimps to mix with the BKK?

they may or may not have bb/bkk genes. it's a lucky draw! some snow whites do exhibit a little bluish even if they are not gene shrimps. and some gene shrimp do not exhibit bluish. best bet is to cross bkk/wr with normal crs/bds and separate the offsprings. so in this case you get 100% gene shrimps. best would be bkk/wr cross bkk/wr to get 100% bkk/wr. then you save alot of time and space. Using gene shrimp is a longer route(and also bkk/wr prices are cheap now) and you need more space & tanks to cull and separate.