.... do these guys come in a blue pattern? I am pondering another DIY I saw, a neat shelved waterfall tank. I could raise different shrimp in each one!
The Blues would be Shadow Panda - Shadow Mosura / then the other are Blue Bolt - Deep Blue Bolt. I think the charts have them but sooo beautiful
Thank you, I am slacking!
So it seems I have been laying low here and need to catch up.
My internet is slow right now. Will add a few pics asap!
Pretty much do a small pwc every other day or 3rd day, ~half gallon. Once a week I do about a gallon.
Feeding is very light since there are so few in there.
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Started with 10 and I think there are 7 but maybe only 6. Not sure as I could not on several attempts locate more.
I know positively there were 2 dead ones. I found one decomposed in the back one day and did a pwc, then the next day or day after there was one freshly dead. Very disturbing. I watched and could count 7 pretty sure.
A couple were in the back and would ander back or forth and a couple look nearly the same so I am not positive.
Counted 6 absolutely. There are still the same since that first 10 to appx. 14 day mark. I know they made it past the week. Can't recall atm more specific loss period.
It was after feeding a couple small pieces of "snow" after skipping a day from feeding one small piece and food, and I supposed it could have been a little ammonia spike.
When I found the decayed body I checked the water and it was perfect but the pH was appx 6.4, much lower than what they came in, but not too low for the species. Then there was the one body looked fine but apparently newly dead.
Between those couple days did pwc probably a couple back to back and then almost 3 gallons but 1G back to back to back. That doesn't exactly count as 3G since you didn't get rid of 3 old gallons to start off. But easier on the shrimp water parameters.
The remaining little guys look very good.
In assessing their features and patterns. A few have a "off" crown / not ideally shaped, so although they are good quality, not all would be show quality. Very happy overall with these guys though. Much nicer than the lfs offerings (if just CRS, not to mention no one caries PRL around here)
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For pwc's I added a pinch more calcium and do that appx every other pwc. Or with the 1G pwc.
They look very active and are crawling all around feeding.
I have a few assorted shrimp food Sample packs purchased, Shrimp King, Shirakura, Low Keys, a combo pack misc. and rotating around with mostly different foods each day. A little pinch of Bacter AE maybe 1x per week.
A Mineral Junkie pearl about 1 time a week or when I remember. Snails love them!!!
Have 2 kinds of baby shrimp food also added in periodically.
Also Seaweed Extreme pieces. A bit of seaweed sheet occasionally.