dapellegrini
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A few weeks back I had to make a quick trip to the LFS to pick up what was to be a temporary home of my soon to arrive Cherry Shrimp while I found new homes for the larger fish in the big tank, where I wanted to put them...
Well all of the big fish have found new homes and I had moved 8 RCS over a while back, but the rest are hard to catch, so finally last night, disgusted by the fact that snails had COMPLETELY overrun the 3g tank, I decided it was time to push the reset button... I was able to find 12 more good sized shrimp that were not carrying eggs (now living in the 72g) and was very surprised to find 4 MORE pregnant shrimp!!! Counting up the mothers-to-be and all of the very small fry, I think there are still at least 20 that I have left in the small tank to either grow up or give birth.
So a few pictures. Here is the tank just before cleaning it.
As I mentioned, I was completely overrun with snails. What started as a few Nerites, ended up being dozens or hundreds of Ramhorn (red, speckled, etc) and pond snails, with egg sacks EVERYWHERE. When I put in waffers, the shrimp literally could got get a space in edge-wise, with all of the snails hording in on whatever I put in there...
The pictures just don't do it justice...
Since this tank's status has changed from temporary to semi-permenant, I decided I would try some new things... I was looking for new substrate in a white / light color and Petsmart simply didn't have anything interesting... So I ended up stopping by the local pool store (LPS I think that would be) and picked up a 50lb bag of filter sand... Way too much, but that was the smallest size bag they had, and it was only $9.
I anchored my Java Ferns to a piece small piece of lava rock, cleaned up the wood a bit, etc. Now that the dust has settled, there are a lot of things I would like to move around some more, but I think I am going to leave it be for now. Looks like a 0 casualty make-over for the shrimp:
Oh, I forgot to mention that I also have 8 Bee Shrimp in there... I learned that the Bee Shrimp would cross with my CRS so they got the smaller tank, while the CRS went into the bigger one...
I was a little worried about the Nerites, as they didn't seem to like the sand, but I have since seen them gliding across the sand like nothing was.
Tank stats: 3 gallon Eclipse all-in-one - Built-in 3-stage filter - 6 watt T5 light. I put a pre-filter on the intake to try and keep the fry in the tank.
8 Nerites - ~20 RCS - 8 Bee Shrimp - And I think I saw one MTS and 1 red Ramhorn that somehow evaded my snail genecide. - 1 Anabius - 1 bunch of Anachris - 1 java fern - some kind of moss
Here's a peak under the hood on this little guy:
Oh and the plants seem to be doing ok in there, even with that pitiful light...
Well all of the big fish have found new homes and I had moved 8 RCS over a while back, but the rest are hard to catch, so finally last night, disgusted by the fact that snails had COMPLETELY overrun the 3g tank, I decided it was time to push the reset button... I was able to find 12 more good sized shrimp that were not carrying eggs (now living in the 72g) and was very surprised to find 4 MORE pregnant shrimp!!! Counting up the mothers-to-be and all of the very small fry, I think there are still at least 20 that I have left in the small tank to either grow up or give birth.
So a few pictures. Here is the tank just before cleaning it.
As I mentioned, I was completely overrun with snails. What started as a few Nerites, ended up being dozens or hundreds of Ramhorn (red, speckled, etc) and pond snails, with egg sacks EVERYWHERE. When I put in waffers, the shrimp literally could got get a space in edge-wise, with all of the snails hording in on whatever I put in there...
The pictures just don't do it justice...
Since this tank's status has changed from temporary to semi-permenant, I decided I would try some new things... I was looking for new substrate in a white / light color and Petsmart simply didn't have anything interesting... So I ended up stopping by the local pool store (LPS I think that would be) and picked up a 50lb bag of filter sand... Way too much, but that was the smallest size bag they had, and it was only $9.
I anchored my Java Ferns to a piece small piece of lava rock, cleaned up the wood a bit, etc. Now that the dust has settled, there are a lot of things I would like to move around some more, but I think I am going to leave it be for now. Looks like a 0 casualty make-over for the shrimp:
Oh, I forgot to mention that I also have 8 Bee Shrimp in there... I learned that the Bee Shrimp would cross with my CRS so they got the smaller tank, while the CRS went into the bigger one...
I was a little worried about the Nerites, as they didn't seem to like the sand, but I have since seen them gliding across the sand like nothing was.
Tank stats: 3 gallon Eclipse all-in-one - Built-in 3-stage filter - 6 watt T5 light. I put a pre-filter on the intake to try and keep the fry in the tank.
8 Nerites - ~20 RCS - 8 Bee Shrimp - And I think I saw one MTS and 1 red Ramhorn that somehow evaded my snail genecide. - 1 Anabius - 1 bunch of Anachris - 1 java fern - some kind of moss
Here's a peak under the hood on this little guy:
Oh and the plants seem to be doing ok in there, even with that pitiful light...
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