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Any update on the young yet? Some of the prices being charged for this strain would not be worth it if they can't be spawned with reasonable effort.

Larry

I've been feeding them to my apistos, barbs, and danios for a couple months. The barbs and danios don't do much with the adults other than chase them around nipping at them, but have no problems at all with the younger, half-grown, ones. I even have reason to believe that my Hypancistrus, those in t...

As said, I am updating this thread. I've now been feeding micro worms to the tank for slightly more than 2 weeks. However, I've cut down to every third day because of time constraints due to work. Anyway, it is noteworthy that both females and males in the tank have started showing more of the red c...

Not a waste of time. Some very nice photos. If you read the FAQ, it does mention that these "piggy-back rides" are a prelude to actual spawning. However, the male will normally work his way to the females underside for actual mating.

Larry Vires

The sponge idea is why I added the sponge filter to the tank. I normally have to clean those in my other tanks weekly to get rid of excessive "critters" clogging pores, but can barely tell this one has been used after 8 weeks without a cleaning. I can definitely understand your position on...

I saw a similar shrimp for sale yesterday by the common name "white back shrimp". I know common names don't help, but it's all I've got.

Larry Vires

I fully intend to begin using RO for everything in the room, but I'm still in the process of setting up tanks. The final placement of the RO unit, in order to make use of the most space, would be in the way of bringing new racks in. Sadly, I have to wait till the rest of the tanks are placed before ...

The tank gets only slightly less light than my plant tanks. Both get direct sunlight via a large window in the fish room, but the shrimp tank is slightly further away from the window. As mentioned above, oak leaves are not readily available. I know where I can get them, but it would involve an hour ...

Nitrate and phosphate are both so low that hobbyist kits hardly show a change. I had tried the spirulina foods early on in this experiment, and have regularly switched the type of foods being fed on a weekly rotation. Although there is java moss in the tank to provide a bit of vertical surface area,...

Hello all, Some of you already know that I've had problems with getting my female RCS to develop saddles. I had a single spawn that resulted in 4 new shrimp several weeks back, but no spawns since. I decided to try an experiment earlier this week to see if I just wasn't feeding them correctly as I s...

Hello,

I'm going to take a premature guess at the mystery critter. Seeing that it was a shrimp only tank, I'm guessing that you had some copepod hitchhikers in the moss. I've got 3 species that I culture, and one of them very much resembles danio/white cloud fry. Only time will tell.

Larry Vires

Hello, I've also noticed my cherries picking at the ramshorns in their tank. The snails just showed up after the tank had been set up for about 6 weeks, and were not intentionally placed there. I normally throw out any snails that I find, but I've never seen a strain with these markings before. I've...

There are several sources for cultured freshwater plankton. You'll have to figure out what species you are looking for and do a search to find them as it is against the rules to post commercial links in the forum.

Larry Vires

I was wondering the same thing about fishforums

Larry Vires

In my experience, when breeding for any color trait in an environmentally influenced species, you have to specify for individuals that are that color/shade more consistently. For example, identify individual shrimp which maintain the desired color more consistently. Those that are more apt to wash o...