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by Opopanax
Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:39 am
Forum: Photography
Topic: Digital Camera Advice
Replies: 28
Views: 62050

From my personal experience I will stay away from the Cybershot from Sony. The newest version might be better than the one I have, but I have found the aperture and focus options are more limited than what the product information implied. I would look for some of the newer olympus models. They tend ...
by Opopanax
Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:11 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Finally fertilized eggs! (Red Cherry)
Replies: 6
Views: 2081

That good advice. I rarely feed algae wafer except when I'm going to be gone for a few days.
by Opopanax
Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:31 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Finally fertilized eggs! (Red Cherry)
Replies: 6
Views: 2081

WHOO HOO baby shrimp!

I was getting ready to leave for the next few days for job hunting and I noticed that all my snails had congregated on the algae wafer I had popped in during the morning.

Then I looked closer... and Saw a small shrimp! YAY! Only 1 seen so far hopefully there are more:)
by Opopanax
Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:18 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Can I use zucchini to feed red cherry shrimp?
Replies: 2
Views: 2294

Pretty much all food will foul up the water if you overfeed and leave it there. Often if you have an established tank there will be plenty of algae for the shrimp to feed off. If you're really concern I would recommend grabbing some Collards. They're cheap (99 cents for a huge thing of em) from the ...
by Opopanax
Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:22 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Finally fertilized eggs! (Red Cherry)
Replies: 6
Views: 2081

Finally fertilized eggs! (Red Cherry)

Well, I might jumping the gun a bit here. But this is the first time I've seen my female red cherries actually carrying the eggs. Before they have always gone from nice saddle to poof disappeared. Amazingly I saw this after I had decided to remove all my endler livebearers out of this tank. They hav...
by Opopanax
Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:46 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: The mysterious dropping eggs
Replies: 16
Views: 4555

Resin is fine:) This is a new and very well maintained water softner. The city water is from natural artesian springs and we have TONS and TONS of limestone and other minerals in the area. So our water - pre softner- is very very hard.

Good source of Calcium though
by Opopanax
Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:34 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: The mysterious dropping eggs
Replies: 16
Views: 4555

I tested our tap water and the water has the hardness of 300. Very hard water... btw that's WITH water softner. I'll have to pick up a phosphate test. I do know I get occasional spikes due to the sudden appearance (and disappearance) of that black beard algae stuff. As for my sources, I did a google...
by Opopanax
Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:22 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: The mysterious dropping eggs
Replies: 16
Views: 4555

Do you have a good recommendation for a phosphate test? my lfs didn't have anything to test those.
by Opopanax
Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:58 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: The mysterious dropping eggs
Replies: 16
Views: 4555

Hi Opo, your temp sounds okay, I'm presuming it's not ultra-quick changes. Here are a few more questions: 1. Size of tank? Filtration? 10G Most of the filtration is done through a single sponge air filter. I have a secondary whisper filter that I use when I'm cleaning the tank or going to do anythi...
by Opopanax
Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:28 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: The mysterious dropping eggs
Replies: 16
Views: 4555

quick update: My shrimp have saddles again so I'll see if they'll drop again. I've tested the water a number of times. My PH remains the same. Amonia, and nitrates vary depending on the cycle stage, but they typically stay very very low (enough that half the time I can barely tell what they register...
by Opopanax
Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:38 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: The mysterious dropping eggs
Replies: 16
Views: 4555

Thanks for the reply everyone, and you Mustafa. I did a double check on everything, and re-read the article. Nothing is amiss. I'm very careful about using hot water (not that it's hard it's a PIA to get hot water from this tap) PH is around 7.6 or 7.8 depending on the test Amonia/Nitrate/Nitrite is...
by Opopanax
Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:43 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: The mysterious dropping eggs
Replies: 16
Views: 4555

Oops! Red Cherries:) All red Cherries. Again, I don't have the exact numbers, except Nitrates showed up darn near 0 as well as nitrates. I'm very careful with the frequency and amount of my water changes. The only thing I cannot test for is phosphates (for some bizarre reason the only tests at my LF...
by Opopanax
Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:07 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: The mysterious dropping eggs
Replies: 16
Views: 4555

The mysterious dropping eggs

My shrimp have developed saddles twice, and both times the saddles have disappeared I have not seen ANY eggs being carried. Of course each time this has happened I've been traveling and 2-3 days go by where I haven't been observing them. I have no idea how long females will hold their eggs in teh sw...
by Opopanax
Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:21 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Non-plant Hiding spots for molting
Replies: 4
Views: 2117

Non-plant Hiding spots for molting

I've gone through the boards and I see many people are using well planted tanks for their shrimp, specifically Java moss and fern. While I have a bit of the moss (not that you ever have a "bit" of this stuff) I'm interested in creating some nice hiding spots for my shrimp to molt and feel ...
by Opopanax
Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:51 pm
Forum: Photography
Topic: Digital Camera: Taking shrimp Photos
Replies: 8
Views: 23140

***Edit*** Ok some of these pictures load and sometimes they don't. I've seen all 3 load fine, but never at the same time. If anyone has an idea what I'm doing wrong, please let me. Thanks ***end Edit*** Ok here are some test shots of some of the shirmp. Not sure if the hosting site I have will work...