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There are a couple people that have posted accounts of raising amano zoos using a combination of the two methods. I failed at using alternative foods, I tried to blend up some spirulina and let that go to no avail. When that female died I stopped trying. In the future, I want to cycle the SW tank by ...

I just decided to crank the CO2 and see if i can get it to stay at 6.6, it's not likely though the tank is only controlled with a solenoid, need a controller. It should be well within their ph range.

I usually get my amanos from the LFS and they have a mortality rate of about 50%, and then they settle in and live np as long as there aren't any predators. I set up a nano cube 12g dx this past winter, and furnished it with some rocks I got at a stone company nearby. This is when the problem ...

I wish I had that rock, my rocks do the opposite and raise PH, but I like to keep blackwater fish. I'm not sure what my rocks leach, but it makes the shrimp kick furiously and become lethargic just like Rebgen's. I really like hardscape and hope to eventually acclaimate the population.

I had two orders with DOA's come from Arizona aqua gardens (AAG) and they did reship both times. The first order had a couple of dead olive nerites, so i called them and they did reship. I have more than half of the nerites still grazing and that's been 2 years.

My second order was shrimp and the ...

Well, here is what I've learned this time around.

Greenwater seems to work very well, I would suggest that using about 10 gallons of salt water might be much more ideal because the shrimp do very well 30-33ppt, and badly above or below and I rapidly lost my population. They survived 18 days at ...

Seems I lost my buddy in doing this, my amano is ready for another batch again. For those of you who've successfully raised shrimp through a 2 stage life cycle, can you offer any hints as to why the amano larvae are being so finicky?

I'm with mustafa on this one, and many other ones too i just haven't counted, Amanos live a 2 part life cycle. Speciation is not the response to an environment, it's a mutation that allows for adaptation to a habitat. For that to happen your talking geologic numbers, 1 in 20 million might have a ...

Have you experienced any losses? How large are they now?

Now seven days in mine have barely if at all grown about 1/16th inch or 2mm. The water turned green for me after a ml of pmdd and a pinch of phosphate, i dont think it's dense enough yet tho. I started feeding a minced spiruela and kelp mix ...

Mine was empty this morning, she let loose ~200 i'd guess. In the BS setup, it's impossible to count them in any sort of meaningful way.

I also had one bad hatchout back in april i guess when i started really trying to have these breed. I think the water was polluted, probably high nitrates and ...

Mines doing her thing again too she released today. I think your either too early in isolating her or too late. She could just be less fertile, being too young or something, mines been carrying eggs every month since january. I first noticed her w/ eggs on her on 6/3 which means she released after ...

Salinity dropped to 1.016 = 200 dead shrimp i noticed it but couldn't correct it in time

I just have trouble identifying a feature that tells me if they are postlarvae or still larvae. I raised mine about 24 25 days before they died off, i did seem to see more distinguishable legs but i couldn't tell if they used them. To summarize, Mikes article mentioned these changes:

-8mm long
-sit ...

I used mikes article as a guide for my attempt. I have 3 amanos down that have been in various tanks over the last year and they started mating back in january. My first attempt was just last month though, I had a batch go free swimming on 4/23 with very poor hatchout rate. My female berried again 5 ...