just started this tank about 1 month ago. Currently in my tank, there are 2 yellow rabbits, 4 yellow spotted rabbits, 1 king rabbit, 3 pagodas, 2 chocolate rabbits, 2 tiara rabbits, 4 horned nerite and 10 lampeye fishes. There are 2 baby sulawesi snails also but they are too small to identify which species of rabbit snails they belong to.
Water is currently yellowish due to the driftwood leeching tannins.
Tank dimensions
25cm by 25cm by 30cm
water
PH 7.5-8
GH 6
KH 5
Hardscape
fine sand
lava rock
bogwood
driftwood
Plants
marimo moss tied on bogwood
sabwassatang
java moss
frogbits
Last edited by boxedfish; 10th Nov 2009 at 11:03.
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Wow! You are going to start a trend here.
Adoketa, Breitbinden, Paciquamis, Diplotaenia, Elizabethae, Mendezi, Inka, Agassizi, L046, L066, Crystal Red Shrimps
nice king snail bro.. mind sharing where ya got it?
yah i hoped more people keep these sulawesi snails so that we have a better supply of them in singapore. It;s really hard to find them in LFS here, i think no more.. anyone knows where to get sulawesi snails? last time C328 have, but cant find any nowadays.Originally Posted by marle
Wow! You are going to start a trend here.
there;s a forum member taking orders for them few weeks back. can try to search. king snails are nice, in fact the nicest, but they are the most problematic ones among the rabbit snails i think. They prefer to get out of the tank then to stay in it, and their diet don;t seems to be the same as the rest. i lost 1 of them after 2 weeks i got them.nice king snail bro.. mind sharing where ya got it?
crs do better in more acidic water, my tank is around ph 8 and i dun want the shrimps to disturb the snails. This tank have piority to the snails.
oh ya forgot that they are sulawesi snails
just got these yesterday, sulawesi white line shrimp. Not very active and sensitive to human movement. Got 4 of them with 1 berried. hoped they can survive in my sulawesi tank.
oh tank supposed to be for sulawesi snails, but since the snails are doing ok in the tank, try my luck on some sulawesi shrimps also. yah hoped can survive, how long did yours survive in your tank?
I have never seen anyone manage to keep or breed this red line shrimp. Please give us updates on your shrimp. The longest i kept them alive is 2 weeks only, although i have 1 living in my tank for 2 months now (1 survived out of 20...)
so far it's been the 4th day since i got them. Very shy shrimps and they don't seemed to be going for the food. they are sensitive to human movement also. They just stay around the same spot grazing on whatever is around the area. So i guess this is the issue preventing them from staying alive.
Very nice C. striata, if I'm not wrong. Good luck with the snails and shrimps. I noticed something, are you cultivating algae in the tank by chance?
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yes they are C.striata. oh if you are referring to marimo algae ball, yes.. I flatten them and tie on the rocks and wood. This is 1 algae i wished it can grow faster.
Oh boy. Marimo gave me a headache. After I kept one in my 4 foot tank, hair algae started appearing in small clumps. Same texture, and feel as the Marimo.. I got enough hair algae clumps to make a 2nd marimo ball, hell even 3.
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maybe the hair algae hitchhike from the marimo into your tank. I dont think having marimo balls will promote hair algae to appear in tanks rite?Oh boy. Marimo gave me a headache. After I kept one in my 4 foot tank, hair algae started appearing in small clumps. Same texture, and feel as the Marimo.. I got enough hair algae clumps to make a 2nd marimo ball, hell even 3.
Marimo are still a Cladophora species. I won't be surprised if the Marimo ball was the root cause of the appearance of the hair algae. Before I added the Marimo ball, my tank was hair algae free.
Then again, many other factors affect the growth of algae, but that's another issue. Anyway the hair algae in my tank grows in clumps, much like the Marimo ball does. I collected so much during my last maintenance, and stuffed them all in a small plastic tank.
My shrimps and snails don't eat them, nothing in my tank does.
By the way, Marimo balls propagate very fast under certain conditions. I don't know what I did, something happened and the bugger's got spores all over the tank. Especially on my tank glass.
TBH, I'm not even sure if the ones we get locally are actually the real deal from Japan/Iceland. Could be some other algae species for all we know.
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haha sounds like you've got a marimo ball from hell. So far more than 2 months, those marimo did not create any havoc in both my tanks. hoped it will stay that way. Just find they are a cheapo and no-maintenance flora to keep.
Great in small tanks with baby shrimps for grow out purposes. My shrimps and snails totally ignored the Marimo ball, when it came to their usual scavenging runs. Which drives me nuts because the ball always gets dirty with detritus, if the shrimps aren't helping to keep the detritus away. Do your snails and shrimp graze on the Marimo surfaces?
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my shrimps in the other tank do graze on the flatten marimo. but both tanks, snails dont go for it.
TS, so you use only fine sand for substrate ? what about filtration ?
yup fine sand for substrate as i am not growing any demanding plants. Anyway, hard to grow plant in sulawesi tanks. Filtration is just a notmal HOF, nothing fancy.
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