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yay! i got a couple of baby snails!

these guys are funny - they are even more animated than my amanos were, and they were pretty animated

Well here we are a year later - and my shrimp just arrived about 20 mins ago! i temp acclimated them in the tank and they are scouring the rocks and substrate for noms. some of them regained color almost immediately, some are still clear, but they aren't being frantic or swimming to the top and the ...

Are they eating the biofilm presumably?

So i finalized the light mounting last night - i used a jar from hobby lobby similar to the Anchor Hocking Montana Jar (maybe even is one) that happens to have a metal lid. the interior of this lid has a plastic insert with a non water-tight seal, which turned out to be the perfect diameter for the ...

thanks all for the input - i've always been a deep bed kind of a guy i didn't' realize that the brackish nerites wouldn't burrow down as far as trochus do. of course, that is cause i'm still thinking in salt water terms i'm sure. :D I thinned out the substrate and added the initial water i'll let it...

Thought I'd start a build thread for my first ever jar, first ever brackish and first ever supershrimp build! I've been reading about these little guys since December and finally got around to collecting the stuff i wanted to use a few weeks ago. No water yet - still have not finalized how I'm going...

that little splash of blue looks nice!

Okay so make it "were". I thought those hermits needed full strength seawater. so for what it is worth, i had them in a reef tank but i did find some anecdotal information suggesting that they might survive in 1.010 to 1.025: https://www.fishforums.net/forums/brackish-forum.48/ http://bra...

ShrimpyShrimpShrimp wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:47 pm
Can you update us on your tank?

last time they were active was in 2014 so... probably not.

Hello, long time listener, first time caller. I am considering a Opae tank for my desk at work - i've had quite a few planted and several reef tanks, but i just don't want to deal with the maintenance for a tank like that at work. I've been thinking over my aquascape and since the majority of plants...