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by shmohney
Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:13 am
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: My success story
Replies: 241
Views: 242084

Re: My success story

So jealous!
by shmohney
Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:53 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Hydra
Replies: 11
Views: 2350

Re: Hydra

With a little more googling around, I've concluded that they are probably hydroids. Seems that they sometimes infest conventional saltwater tanks. I've had my shrimp for about five months now, and noticed the first hydroids about two months ago. I don't mind them if they don't multiply too much. The...
by shmohney
Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:03 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Hydra
Replies: 11
Views: 2350

Re: Hydra

So, barely five minutes after I posted the above, i went and took another look at my tank. I have middle-aged eyes so I doubled up on two pairs of reading glasses in order to look closely at the biggest hydra. Just then, a shrimp crawled right over the hydra, and it retracted dramatically! So it's n...
by shmohney
Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:13 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Hydra
Replies: 11
Views: 2350

Hydra

Has anyone else observed hydra (or hydroids?) in their opae tanks? I've noticed several in mine lately, if I'm right about what they are. They are attached to a substrate by a short stalk, and have numerous very fine tentacles radiating from the end of the stalk opposite the attachment point. They'r...
by shmohney
Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:28 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Ecosphere
Replies: 18
Views: 7282

Re: Ecosphere

I wanted an ecosphere from the first time I saw one, and my brother gave me one for Christmas a few years ago. Unfortunately for the shrimp, they only survived for about a year. Somewhere along the line I stumbled across this site and got interested in the opae again, and now I have a little 1.5 gal...
by shmohney
Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:19 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Color changes after disturbing the tank. And "pods".
Replies: 1
Views: 826

Color changes after disturbing the tank. And "pods".

I've had my shrimp for over two months now, and the majority have been a nice red color, even more so when they are feeding when I give them an occasional pellet of food. But I always notice a few that have almost no color - they look almost totally clear. I know that they are likely to just be that...
by shmohney
Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:51 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Jelly fish in my tank?
Replies: 14
Views: 3472

Re: Jelly fish in my tank?

I'd be a little concerned that they might prey on the shrimp. Any evidence of that so far?
by shmohney
Sat May 18, 2013 7:32 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: My first molt!
Replies: 13
Views: 3439

Re: My first molt!

How often do they molt? I've had 46 shrimp for about 5 weeks and haven't seen any evidence of molting yet. Just wondering.
by shmohney
Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:53 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Lighting
Replies: 2
Views: 999

Re: Lighting

Side note - within a day after I added the desk lamp, tiny bubbles started rising from the algae, which hadn't happened when I was only using the LEDs. I'm thinking the bubbles mean that the algae is photosynthesizing a lot more than it was. The bubbles collect in large numbers, and coalesce under t...
by shmohney
Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:40 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Lighting
Replies: 2
Views: 999

Lighting

I have a 1.5 gallon tank with a crushed coral substrate, and limestone rocks and dead coral for cover and algae growth, plus some snails and Chaeto from Mustafa. There are 7 little LED lights in the fixture that came with the tank. I introduced about 46 Opae three weeks ago, and they seem to be doin...
by shmohney
Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:23 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: my snail died
Replies: 30
Views: 8352

Re: my snail died

I still haven't ordered any shrimp, but am enjoying watching my snails. One of the smaller ones is odd - I NEVER see it active or out of the shell. But if I move it to a spot on top of the crushed coral and against the glass, the next day it is buried in the coral. A day or two later it's deeper. Th...
by shmohney
Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:30 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: my snail died
Replies: 30
Views: 8352

Re: my snail died

I'm starting my first Opae tank - 1.5 gallons. I got some snails and Chaeto about a month ago - ordered the ten snails and got 13. Plus, in just the last few days, I've spotted at least two tiny baby snails. I guess they might have been in the bag with the big (relatively speaking) ones, but they're...
by shmohney
Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:14 am
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Proper Water Measurement Questions
Replies: 6
Views: 1600

Re: Proper Water Measurement Questions

I'm having the same issue with pH in the tank I'm starting. Mixed Instant Ocean at half-strength with distilled water, and my hydrometer reads 1.012. But my pH is 7 to 7.5. I switched from black gravel to crushed coral, and added a bunch of crushed limestone rocks from my driveway gravel, having scr...
by shmohney
Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:05 am
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: Aquarium gravel bad for supershrimp?
Replies: 6
Views: 4055

Re: Aquarium gravel bad for supershrimp?

Whoa, sorry, Mustafa, for mis-stating your thoughts on gravel.......! Anyway, in the absence of an immediate answer, I got a water chem testing kit and found that my distilled water pH was a little on the low side. Not far, but a little lower than the recommendations I'd seen here. So I switched to ...