my newest shrimp tank (56k warning)

Mordaki · Post by **Mordaki** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:35 am

Hii finally got my new shrimp tank set up its been running for a few weeks now with just amano shrimp in it and no deaths yet so i started to get some others.
so far i have,
a few amano shrimp about 14(not shure how many as i cant see behind my tank and some like to hide alot).
1 mountain shrimp (will be going in a bigger tank soon).
about 10 or more cherry's.
1-3 CRS that i got with my cherries charged me same price as cherries aswell so i was a happy bunny

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and today i got 20 green shrimp i ordered online (they came verry well packed and besides being a little stressed were supprisingly healthy some even quite coloured concidering being in transit for about a day)
if your intrested in the fis in there

also got some endlers, neon tetras and glowlight tetras

(had a crown tailed betta aswell while i was waiting for its home to cycle it diddnt even notice the shrimp lol )
Apart from the amano and mountain shrimp i had to get the others ordered in specially for me, unfortunatly all my CRS died in transit to my lfs so they sold me the 1-3 CRS and about 10 cherries they had in thair display tank and charged me the same price as cherries so i was a bit happier.
anyway some pics for you all

(excuse the pic quality as they were taken on my mobile phone so some arent too great

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Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:41 am

Thanks for sharing the pictures of your animals with us. They seem to have a lot of plants and rock to climb onto. The picture are good for a mobile phone

Mordaki · Post by **Mordaki** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:13 am

yeah there is some fish shop that sells the plants for verry cheap(like 1/3of the normal price) where i live and they dont use chemicals on thair plants but thair attiude stinks, so i dont like going there had some other plants but they got shredded a bit so i got a load of grasses

. problem with still living with my pareants is that i cant have a big tank got a structual guy coming out to the house this week so gonna see what the largest tank i can safley have is hopefully i can get a 2 footer or bigger in my bedroom so i can get alot more shrimp

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:24 am

hopefully i can get a 2 footer or bigger in my bedroom so i can get alot more shrimp

Sounds like you have been bitten by the shrimp bug

Best wishes on getting the bigger tank!

Mordaki · Post by **Mordaki** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:33 am

Neonshrimp wrote:
hopefully i can get a 2 footer or bigger in my bedroom so i can get alot more shrimp
Sounds like you have been bitten by the shrimp bug Best wishes on getting the bigger tank!

i was bitten a long time ago just i work 12 hour shifts so i havent been on this site in ages

,and had to stop keeping shrimp because i got a tank for cichlids then realised i had 2 other tanks that i could set up and then bought a small 35 litre one wich has just cycled and im going to put some shrimp in that one aswell

so i will have three small 30-40 litre shrimp tanks

and my cichlid tank wich dosnt/wont have shrimp in. Only problem is the area of the uk i live in to get any types of shrimp other than mountain shrimp and amano shrimp you either have to be verry lucky or get a special order don't know what its like in other parts of the uk tho maby im just unlucky

Shroob · Post by **Shroob** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:41 am

I have never seen any type of shrimp near me, I had to get mine off ebay.
ps. Im in the UK

Mordaki · Post by **Mordaki** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:59 am

yeah think the uk is a bit behind on the "shrimp scene" lol i sometimes see some stuff used to have a african vampire i found in a garden centers pet department, but the thing i allways ask them is
"do your amano shrimp sell well?"
to wich they normally reply
"yes they do"
then i allways say
"so if you are selling the amano shrimp so well why not get in other types as you can get more colourfull ones that would probably sell alot better"
then they say they dont know lol.
the wierd thing is all the lfs where i live couldnt get in anything i wanted so i asked by the pet department in a garden center if they done special orders and they do but they wont order in other shrimp to sell to he public(apart from special order) yet they will sell ghost knife fish and other sillly fish that either grow large or are verry agressive or both...

. guess us people in the uk will need to wait till more types of shrimp start becoming more available

Mordaki · Post by **Mordaki** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:56 am

just removed all my fish from the tank and they are a hell of alot more active to say the least. they were rather active before but now they are super active

and noticed one of my green shrimp that was hiding had a couple eggs i was soo happy

then i noticed another next to her full of eggs. so fingers crossed i may have some baby shriimp soon

got some new shrimpies

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:58 am

Great, so congrats may be in order. I hope it is good news for you and your growing shrimp pop.

by the way I looked at your pictures again and I noticed you have a piece of metal wire next to the wood. What is this for?

Mordaki · Post by **Mordaki** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:36 am

it was actually a piece of root from one of my plants

the plants in there dont even have foam around them

Mordaki · Post by **Mordaki** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:14 am

hehe some updates on my shrimpies

hehe hope you all enjoy they seem to be the best i have managed o take with my phone camera

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:24 am

Again, for a phone camera, it looks pretty good. Keep the pictures coming

Thanks.