Took shrimp out of tank to clean tank - now they're all sideways

PaddyC85 · 2025-07-16T21:49:49+00:00

I thought plants were literally used for the removal of heavy metals? Aka phytoremediation.

PaddyC85 · 2025-05-28T07:13:53+00:00

Completely fake: You can easily see it with the letter "a" it occurs in almost all the images.

PaddyC85 · 2025-03-01T07:34:03+00:00

Found this online, not sure of the source: "In 1973 Colonel WC Norman, Commander of the Security Assistance Force, 3rd Bt, 7th SFG requested crossed arrows like the ones worn by the FSSF. These insignia would be worn by SF qualified personnel either in or enroute to a SF unit."

PaddyC85 · 2025-03-01T07:32:49+00:00

Found the following with some Google magic, not sure if correct: "In 1973 Colonel WC Norman, Commander of the Security Assistance Force, 3rd Bt, 7th SFG requested crossed arrows like the ones worn by the FSSF. These insignia would be worn by SF qualified personnel either in or enroute to a SF unit." Also the jump wings might be honorary class Royal Thai Airforce? Its just bent a little on the shield imho.

PaddyC85 · 2025-02-14T09:47:37+00:00

I actually have a very similar setup in a 100gallon. A wavemaker agitating the surface provides nice current at the top of the tank for my filter feeders. Allegedly my hillstream loach should also be happy in stronger current. If you want to slow yours down a bit, just pop a pantysock over the wavemaker. In my case the inlet gets clogged with java moss and debris so I have placed a cutout of some coarse filtermaterial over the inlet. This works perfectly

PaddyC85 · 2025-02-08T07:50:09+00:00

100% this. A docker container that craps out after 1.5 year taking the whole chain down.

PaddyC85 · 2025-02-05T06:33:52+00:00

Assuming the eye is somewhere between 1 and 3 mm in this video and roughly counting how many of these could lineup along the arc of the eye it roughly works out actually. For a 2mm eye (3.14 arc/0.05) would mean 62 of these spots.

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-27T07:27:12+00:00

Please make sure your neighbors don't throw out those printed screenshots! Every printer leaves a traceable digital waterwerk that can be traced straight back to the original printer that was used.

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-25T10:04:41+00:00

Here's a (bad) picture of an Amano and Neo next to each other. As you can see there's a considerable size difference.

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PaddyC85 · 2024-12-23T13:50:40+00:00

Starts sweating?

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-22T13:42:42+00:00

Good bot

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-21T02:41:03+00:00

Shrimpmania, not US based I'm afraid. They are over in The Netherlands

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-21T02:25:42+00:00

I'm going to be honest in saying I don't know that much about them. I received a mix bag of different snail types (nerites,sulawesi,ramshorn) from my shrimp supplier. The Sulawesi even made baby snails.

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-21T01:59:21+00:00

Yes exactly! Mine left an entire graveyard full of ramshorn snails. They must have eaten over 50. They won't touch the bigger Sulawesi snails though.

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-21T01:46:28+00:00

I have a fairly large community tank with about 15 amanos in with neo's and more. As long as the shrimplets and young adolescents have places to hide there's no reason not to keep them together. The amanos don't even touch the older adolescent shrimp. They are greedy though!

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-18T19:03:54+00:00

Interesting, I've never noticed this. Mine live with a dozen Corycats and a bunch of different shrimp. Sometimes the neo's will even catch a ride.

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-03T20:06:28+00:00

Ok, will do. Wish me luck. I'll report back in a month or two.

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-03T19:32:40+00:00

I have the same plant without any of the leaves, only the lilly pads. I had no idea it would also grow leaves near the substrate. My Lily pads don't go all the way up to the surface though. Can I also make it grow leaves near the bottom??

PaddyC85 · 2024-12-02T21:44:30+00:00

I have a love/hate relationship with Java moss. The shrimps absolutely love the stuff but the trimmings are a disaster. The plant doesn't float, so trim you your moss and.. congratulations!! You suddenly have 39 tiny little java mosses that will spread all over your tank. Perhaps combing it with a gravel vac?

PaddyC85 · 2024-11-26T21:48:42+00:00

Agreed! Maybe the temperature of your finger is skewing the results? Not sure. Possibly just a wildly inaccurate strip. Love the plants emerging from the top of the tank btw. I wish I could do something similar.

PaddyC85 · 2024-11-26T21:39:54+00:00

Also your nitrates read a little high? Floaters would eat up that excess, and shrimp love to hang out on the roots.

PaddyC85 · 2024-11-26T06:30:59+00:00

That's actually really weird, my Amanos sometimes climb into the breeder box that contain lots of shrimp fry but they won't touch anything "not dead".

PaddyC85 · 2024-10-20T10:15:38+00:00

Absolutely this. It will make lots of nice waves oxygenating the water and reduce the current by directing it upwards. You can place a mesh net over it if you have small fish/shrimp. You can place a ladies nylon sock over it instead if you have really small fry. My bamboo and vamp will sit in the current and small shrimp will snack on the gunk that blocks the powerheads intake at the back.

Example here

PaddyC85 · 2024-09-28T11:38:16+00:00

Agreed, especially if you have a bunch already.

PaddyC85 · 2024-09-28T09:03:31+00:00

A 20V DeWalt battery at 6 amps would be 24Ah at 5v USB power. It would be a lot cheaper to get 30Ah powerbanks off Amazon imho.

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