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by fishgeek
Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:38 am
Forum: Photography
Topic: Digital Camera Advice
Replies: 28
Views: 50781

if you have macro then place the camera lens against clean tank glass and it should have an easier time focusing through the glass if you leave some space it will tend to focus on reflections from the glass, spots on the glass, i find it best to take shots in a dark room with oly tank lights on andrew
by fishgeek
Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:34 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: I finally got tiger shrimp (Caridina sp. "Tiger")
Replies: 15
Views: 3804

fantastic thanks very much mustafa
by fishgeek
Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:19 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: I finally got tiger shrimp (Caridina sp. "Tiger")
Replies: 15
Views: 3804

very hard to find many let alone any of these shrimp over here

i have found a german site that prehaps exports to england , still having trouble understand the autotranslations though

and more importantly need to get 1 of the 2 i have to breed before i start trying others

andrew
by fishgeek
Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:47 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: I finally got tiger shrimp (Caridina sp. "Tiger")
Replies: 15
Views: 3804

same geek zapisto mustafa the parameter you put on seem a little open ended to me anyway, i am used to specific requirements from keeping the dwarf's it seems most of the bee varieties ie crs/bb and bee, also the tiger shrimp a big plus for these is they are benthenic?(live bearing- sorry the word e...
by fishgeek
Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:47 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: I finally got tiger shrimp (Caridina sp. "Tiger")
Replies: 15
Views: 3804

sorry to piggy back a question into this thread i too like zapisto have dwarf's and am interested in which shrimp species will be most suitable for soft waters at present i have cherry and bee i was looking at mostly bee relative ie crs etc are they any specific hardness/alkalinty levels that are to...
by fishgeek
Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:08 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: New shrimp, sucked up in my Fluval 304
Replies: 22
Views: 6903

if the intake is round then adapting any sponge filter to fit over the intake shouldn't be hard the biggest problem with a fine intake filter sponge is that it blocks easily and will reduce flow through the whole system(you'll soon find that with the pntyhose you have used too) in my opinion the coa...
by fishgeek
Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:20 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: sexual characteristics of male cherry shrim
Replies: 4
Views: 1145

thanks mustafa i think i have 1
now for the fun

:-)
by fishgeek
Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:22 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: sexual characteristics of male cherry shrim
Replies: 4
Views: 1145

sexual characteristics of male cherry shrim

since i got my first 8 cherry's i have been searching for males the local fish shop had some very small 1-1.5 cm cherry's in recently i was hoping some experienced members would be able to aid me in learning to choose male shrimp i understand that they have less colour, though so do small shrimp and...
by fishgeek
Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:33 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: sexing cherry shrimp
Replies: 1
Views: 713

sexing cherry shrimp

i know it is suggested that male shrimp will have less colour has anyone seen that because of this less colourful shrimp may be excluded so that only female shrimp are recieved? also can anyone shed some light on the stripe that runs down the back of cherry's is it of any signifigance i ask because ...
by fishgeek
Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:06 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: bee shrimp acclimatisation
Replies: 20
Views: 5329

sorry mustafa , what is your vote on water, should i leave them? some are acting happily -eating foraging as i would expect or should i move them, i am not too sure how well shrimp cope with change like i said i wold be pretty happy moving fish with minimal acclimatisation aslong as it was to water ...
by fishgeek
Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:34 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: bee shrimp acclimatisation
Replies: 20
Views: 5329

so prehaps i should move them
mustafa?
by fishgeek
Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:58 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: bee shrimp acclimatisation
Replies: 20
Views: 5329

i know the propritor of the shop i purchased the shrimp from water from the tap there is very soft 2-3 Gh as they run a large aquatics outlet they cannot afford pH crashes and so add coral sand to the water on testing the bag water the fish came in(as i stated) it was hard water and the proprietor s...
by fishgeek
Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:33 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: bee shrimp acclimatisation
Replies: 20
Views: 5329

bee shrimp acclimatisation

i have just yesterday recieved 8 young bee shrimp of 1-1.5cm in size i had 2 options to house them in and choose a smaller tank that already has red cherry shrimp in as it was easy to see into and monitor there progress here this morning i have found 1 shrimp white and dead on the bottom of the tank...
by fishgeek
Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:03 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: New here with an ID question
Replies: 11
Views: 2947

i'm new too any maybe wrobg
here is my guess Neocaridina zhangjiajiensis

just based on eye colour and small dark spots on body

andrew
nice photography by the way
by fishgeek
Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:58 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: scratch tank setup
Replies: 11
Views: 2176

ph is notoriously hard to accurately measure in water that has little alkalinity even with electronic meter's a low kH would just make your pH reading unreliable i get r/o water that reads nil on EC readings (obviously not the same as kH) and has no reading for kH on esha test strips the pH meter re...