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Galvanized would court trouble in a shrimp tank. One might think so but the use of it is common in discus breeding and the results are more discus. An oxidate forms an inert layer on the suface of glavanized material and this would be a small amount of surface area to begin with that it would proba...

Fortunately I have so many shrimp I can afford to experiment a litle. I am sure and as Mustafa said, the L10a and shrimp will prosper together. It is possible that in this case, at least for awhile, that the shrimp will be able to produce enough to actually benefit the A. baenschi Inka as a contant ...

If the RCS population shows signs of loosing ground I'll remove the Apistogramma.

There is an impenetrable jungle of plants in this tank and I made a point to stock small shrimp to get an idea of what the survival rate is going to be rather sooner than later.

This is a good topic, Larry. With so many of the ornamental shrimps apparently requiring at least their frst stages of development in an estuarine enviroment we would-be culturists are going to have to find some practical way to duplicate the conditions and foods necessary to get them through every ...

There are a very large selection of screen and netting materials, all non-toxic available from major aquaculture suppliers in black, clear and white. Woven nylon, mono-nylon all in any mesh size you could possibly desire. The trick is partly in what type of pipe you choose. The normal PVC white is g...

I have RCS well established in two 10 gallon tanks and to a lesser degree in a couple of fry rearing tanks of only 4.5 gals. Today I moved a hundred or so RCS into an established 20Long. They are mostly less than 10mm on down to the new hatched or early instars of a few mm. lengths . The tank has tw...

Hi pleco_breeder, Have your new RCS stabilized yet? The survivors acting OK and all, I hope. I was setting up more tanks for them today and took some from a tank that has five Juvenile F1 L46 in them . I don't see them very often yet but I guess they are all doing OK. Seeing them made me think of yo...

I haven't "tagged" any so I could keep track of individuals but I have the sense that they occassionally live to two years old but I think that is close to a maximum age and 18 months is what I estimate is a good run for most of them..

Nice photos. Good of them to pose. Did you grow these yourself? They make an interesting project to raise your own. Just a little more difficult than the RCS but the Ghost shrimp are such versatile aquarium inhabitants it's nice to grow a few hundred up in your tanks. These homegrown are so hardy an...

Maybe somebody has already discussed this but as a follow up to Mustafa's advice about water changes I would include hydrovacuuming the substrate as well. I always use a plug of filter floss inside the vacuum tube so the small zoae are not lost. It doesn't cost all the other copepods a loss of numbe...

I hope that over time the selective breeding shows results. I know next to nothing about shrimp genetics but I know enough about the basics of Menedlian genetics to agree with your approach(es). I would take the same approach. I have been pleased to see how stable the red form is. I don't think I am...

Great photodocumentation of invertebrate regeneration. I guess if an animal is going to be so quick to get into dismembering fights as these large Macrobranchium species do it would behoove them to have the capacity to put all the parts back togethe againr. Very interesting shrimp but these large sp...

Hello, I'm traditionally not a "snail person". A better way of stating it is I'll pitch a tank in the trash if I find one in it. However, I did manage to find this hobbyist page which references several journals and scientific papers. The article is probably not going to help much, but th...

I don't think RCS eat rotifers or daphnia to any big degree. They are just a really good indicator that you don't need to worry about water quality. I've found that with many inverts there is a die-off with new animals in the transition to your water. Once that make it past about 3 weeks will be ac...

These do not seem to be long-lived animals. MIne seem to go about a year and the females will reproduce about 3-4 times in that period. I've found you need to keep males from multiple generations to keep the babies going. The males are only interested in mating every other molt. Hi badflash, This w...