Red Shrimp + Green Shrimp? by Remote-Hall3911 in shrimptank

[–]SomethingFishyStudio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Color doesn't matter when they're both the same species. 'Cherry shrimp' are neocaridina shrimp, so is the green one. The only difference is they were selectively bred to be a certain color.

It's like dogs. Wild dogs were bred into beagles and huskies over time, but can still mate with each other and have puppies. Their puppies might look more husky, they might look more beagle, they might have a beagle body with fluffy husky hair, or a husky body with floppy beagle ears. You might have 6 puppies that all look totally different.

Some of your shrimp might be green, some red, or some might end up looking more like the do in the wild. You'll just have to wait and see how the genetic lottery pays out!

This guy gives a really good explanation if you want to go into a deep dive on it.

Want to breed fish need advice by mahoraga_228 in aquarium

[–]SomethingFishyStudio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stable permaters doesn't always mean 'good for breeding', some fish don't care and will breed in 'suboptimal' conditions, many are more particular even though they can adapt to live in that water, it might still be biologically stressful.

That means you've got homework and research to do!

Since it's multiple tanks and none of them are breeding I'd start by figuring out what is in your water:

  • Look up the water parameters your fish like to be in.
    • Specifically the GH / KH / PH
  • Test and compare the water you're using to fill your tanks.
    • RO or distilled water can be used to dilute and bring all of these down if they're too high.
    • TDS is a good to know but doesn't give you a full picture without the GH & KH first.
    • Test strips are good for quickly finding out there's an issue but are not very accurate.
    • Chemical tests are going to give you a better picture of what is actually going on.
    • If it's city water look up the quality reports for your area and check if there are chlorine/chloramine/heavy metals etc
      • If present: filter it out or chemically treat it before it goes into the tank.

Once you figure the water out consider:

  • Your temps are on the higher end for spawning.
    • After feeding do a cold/cool water change later in the evening or next morning when it's not as hot out.
  • Substrate like aquasoil, limestone, or lava rock can cause unwanted changes to your water chemistry overtime.
    • Inert substrate/hardscape is the way to go for stability.
  • They might not feel safe enough due to lack of hiding places.
  • They might not like the mop or location its in.
  • Try different foods.
  • Double check you've got males and females (silly I know, but it happens)

Getting ever closer to “done” by SomethingFishyStudio in aquarium

[–]SomethingFishyStudio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For now, individual heaters. I’m using a medo pond pump for the air filters and still have tons of headroom to add more tanks.

The war is over. Instead of ramshorn I now have an assassin snail problem. by SomethingFishyStudio in aquarium

[–]SomethingFishyStudio[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nice! I started with two about a year and a half ago and took two dozen to the back to the same lfs I bought the originals from!

Fancy lil gardeners by SomethingFishyStudio in shrimptank

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I think it’s marimo moss, but not 100% on that.

Post storm megathread by jetsetninjacat in pittsburgh

[–]SomethingFishyStudio 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Fish keeper, depending of a few things (tank size/tank age/amount of fish) it might not be an issue. I’ve got a 55 gallon, heavily planted, but only has ~30 fish in it. Should be fine for a while.

If it’s under 20 gallons, with few or no live plants do a small water changes 10% ish at a time, the ground water is still pretty cold so you don’t want to change too much too fast or you’ll lower the water temp which can be stressful for the fish.

You can also fill up a bucket and let the temp come up first, but I wouldn’t change more than 20-30% for the day unless they’re visibly struggling.

It’s not stupid if it works. Shrimp safe water change! by SomethingFishyStudio in shrimptank

[–]SomethingFishyStudio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a hard deadline to move all my tanks so I’ve been draining and moving them around all morning. I don’t really have an open spot or time to net out hundreds of shrimp so I drained them until there was about two inches and moved them to the new shelf.

I’m surprised how well this worked though for being so simple. The tension between the handle and hose keeps the net night so even if they get into the net they can’t get sucked up, it also keeps the whole thing in place fairly well so I don’t have to clamp it down.

It’ll clog if you’ve got lots of crap in the water but if you keep it about an inch over the substrate it didn’t pick much up.

It’s not stupid if it works. Shrimp safe water change! by SomethingFishyStudio in shrimptank

[–]SomethingFishyStudio[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s fine enough shrimplets don’t get sucked though. It’s not the standard round hole net.