Did I do it incorrectly?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:56 am
I collected 12 shrimp from a lady selling them on Gumtree.
I'm not too bothered at this stage as to the colour quality as it's my first time caring for shrimp and I didn't want to pay a lot for them if I can't get it right.
I brought them home ready to put into a fully (2ppm) cycled mature tank, which has no other inhabitants other than one nerite snail.
I thought I had acclimatised them properly by removing 10ml of their transport water, replacing with tank water while the container was floating in the tank.
I did this every 15 minutes for 75 minutes altogether before I put them in. However, I've seen on another website that the minimum time should be over 90 minutes?
Initially they ALL disappeared but after 5 minutes or so 6 or 7 came back out and it was great to see them exploring the tank and starting on the algae on the plants. They seemed very happy
However, I never see any more than 6-7 of them. They vary in size from very small at around 1cm to slightly bigger than 2cm and a couple are reddish, one is translucent yellowish and the other, tiny ones are clear.
I think I have at least 3 females (the bigger shrimp) as they appear to have saddles (The lady passing them over said she thought one of the females was pregnant).
I gave them their first "meal" of 1/2 wafer two days after I got them. Again two or three will eat it but the others ignored it or didn't show.
I wanted to take it out but a couple kept going back to it so I left it in over night.
This morning I have removed the remains by siphoning it out as it had broken up. I then replaced about 3 litres with Seachem Primed water at 0.1ml.
Mustapha, I've just seen a reply to another poster and you said you should never siphon. Even left over food?
I'm going to make a serving dish to prevent this in future so it shouldn't be a problem.
Have I lost the other 4 or 5 since I never see them or are they still hiding after nearly a week?
I THINK I saw a skeleton in the week, a translucent kind of thing resting on a moss ball and it had gone next day. It didn't appear to be a whole thing ie no legs that I could see.
I haven't seen any dead bodies at all so I'm hoping they are just hiding
Any information gratefully received
This is my first shrimp venture and I want to get it right for them
I'm not too bothered at this stage as to the colour quality as it's my first time caring for shrimp and I didn't want to pay a lot for them if I can't get it right.
I brought them home ready to put into a fully (2ppm) cycled mature tank, which has no other inhabitants other than one nerite snail.
I thought I had acclimatised them properly by removing 10ml of their transport water, replacing with tank water while the container was floating in the tank.
I did this every 15 minutes for 75 minutes altogether before I put them in. However, I've seen on another website that the minimum time should be over 90 minutes?
Initially they ALL disappeared but after 5 minutes or so 6 or 7 came back out and it was great to see them exploring the tank and starting on the algae on the plants. They seemed very happy
However, I never see any more than 6-7 of them. They vary in size from very small at around 1cm to slightly bigger than 2cm and a couple are reddish, one is translucent yellowish and the other, tiny ones are clear.
I think I have at least 3 females (the bigger shrimp) as they appear to have saddles (The lady passing them over said she thought one of the females was pregnant).
I gave them their first "meal" of 1/2 wafer two days after I got them. Again two or three will eat it but the others ignored it or didn't show.
I wanted to take it out but a couple kept going back to it so I left it in over night.
This morning I have removed the remains by siphoning it out as it had broken up. I then replaced about 3 litres with Seachem Primed water at 0.1ml.
Mustapha, I've just seen a reply to another poster and you said you should never siphon. Even left over food?
I'm going to make a serving dish to prevent this in future so it shouldn't be a problem.
Have I lost the other 4 or 5 since I never see them or are they still hiding after nearly a week?
I THINK I saw a skeleton in the week, a translucent kind of thing resting on a moss ball and it had gone next day. It didn't appear to be a whole thing ie no legs that I could see.
I haven't seen any dead bodies at all so I'm hoping they are just hiding
Any information gratefully received
This is my first shrimp venture and I want to get it right for them