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My three weeks old shrimp tank. I am using ADA soil with a hanging filter and also a pressurised Co2 system.Currently my ph is around 6 and temperature varies from 27c-29c, 5.4WPG...should be enough... now I have few crystal red and some tiger shrimps.My tank still in cycling mode but no death reported so far.

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BTW- check the mineral content of any soil you use. Many metalic ions will be bad for the shrimp in the long run. I am not familiar with yours.

Do you know that crystal red shrimp and tiger shrimp inter breed?

-Pedro

Ok let me try...






It works... thank you "badflash"
The ADA soil "Amazon" kind has been used by the LFS so he recommended me. Its almost a month now and no death reported. I guess its allright for the shrimps

Inter breed???? I am not aware of that.. so how does the shrimp looks like when they interbreed.. is it a good thing?

Very nice tank It looks like a little village for shrimp. Interbreeding and hybrids has been touchy subjects and discussed in past threads. You can do a search on them. good luck with you tank and hope you shrimp start to reproduce soon

Wow, very impressive tank! It looks great!


-John (AKA: The Puffer Ninja)

very nice tank
is it me or the line on your tiger look like redish ?

On my computer.
It also looks Reddish Brown.

Tman, is this due to the camera/lighting or are the stripes truly red?

Its reddish brown... the batch that I bought around 3 or 4 are all in this color.. is this normal

The stripes are usually brown or black that is why it caught our attention. That just means you have something unique, you can see what developes from this

Neonshrimp wrote:The stripes are usually brown or black that is why it caught our attention. That just means you have something unique, you can see what developes from this

well
for me , that mean this shrimp is not happy , but i can be wrong.
the thing i observe when i lost mine is the change of color on the line.

black to reddish brown......

mustafa , any advice ?

zapisto wrote: well
for me , that mean this shrimp is not happy , but i can be wrong.
the thing i observe when i lost mine is the change of color on the line.

black to reddish brown......

mustafa , any advice ?

Yes, that's usually the case. Not stressed-out, healthy tiger shrimp have very dark stripes and are quite clear...no sign of milky coloration. The shrimp in the picture looks ok, although it's hard to tell from just a picture. The flash on a camera can make colors look different from what they really are, especially if it's just the "normal" flash that comes with the camera.

interesting.. the red line has been there for a long time ever sine i bought them... they look happy to me.. very active. i ll lookout for any abnormal behavior..could it be interbreed w other species??