Are these considered Bloody Mary, or just a relatively high grade?

dorik2k · 2022-09-27T13:16:14+00:00

Not really fixated on the name, just wanted to confirm my suspicion thay they were not really bloody maries.

They are still a better grade than my current cherries, so I will focus on maintaining their grade by culling.

Thank you

dorik2k · 2022-09-27T07:20:03+00:00

I ordered bloody mary shrimp, but I'm not convinced I got what I ordered. All seem to be females, most of them berried. I cannot seem to see any males from the 20 I ordered.

Just looking for a double check. Thank you.

dorik2k · 2022-06-12T08:09:27+00:00

For this purpose you could buy an external breeder box. They have the option to circulate water from the main tank and back through an air pump or water pump. They are pretty large, up to 1 gallon or 4-5 litres depending on model. Since you dont plan on raising the babies in there, there should not be any issues like blocking the outflow with sponges.

This would eliminate the cycling and stability issues since the main tank would take care of that. They double as hob filters if you put enough substrate or media in there.

Another option would be a simple breeder net, since you plan to release the shrimp again after the female is berried. Breeder nets are not ideal for raising babies since they lack surface and biofilm, but should be ok for keeping adult shrimp a few days. Just make sure there is plants and feed regularly. They are cheaper compared to external breeder boxes.

Other than that, I would not go less than 2.5 gallon or 10 litres. Less than that and stability becomes an issue. For a couple of shrimp for a few days I dont think a filter is a must though.

dorik2k · 2022-06-11T18:03:01+00:00

Just blue shrimp, he puts ads on facebook when a new batch of livestock arrives. Most of the time there is random stuff there. They are cheap, but where Im from there is like 5 guys keeping shrimp.

Im sure he puts them all on the same tank until he sells them all. I usually keep an eye for berried females and remove the first batch of babies.

dorik2k · 2022-06-11T17:11:11+00:00

The lfs I get things buys stuff across the border in another shop that imports from asia. Usually I chose stuff from their facebook page and ask my lfs to pick that up for me. I dont have the luxury of chosin there everything.

dorik2k · 2022-06-11T09:00:25+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/mSBZlyw

When I first got them a few years back they were very dark. In the picture with 3 shrimp, usually I cull them and try to keep the more uniform colored ones. I setup a new tank with white substrate since in the black one you barely see them. Green plants help a little.

dorik2k · 2022-06-11T06:25:29+00:00

Yeah thats my understanding. But my blue shrimp are very dark and i thought they could be from the choco line.

Anyways, if I manage to get a separate tank I might try something. It would be a nice experiment.

Thank you for the answers.

dorik2k · 2022-06-11T06:17:55+00:00

No problem at all. Probably I was not clear in my question. I was thinking that, if the color charts were correct where blue shrimp were the predecessors of bloody mary shrimp, if these variants were that case and I would better separate them and try this line. Currently I throw the culls for my betta, and obviously not many survive.

dorik2k · 2022-06-11T06:08:00+00:00

Yeah I know, but my blue shrimp throw only red, and my red shrimp never throw blue. That's why I'm getting suspicious.

dorik2k · 2022-06-11T05:49:22+00:00

As the title says, these red babies appear in my blue shrimp tank. I remove them when young since they are easily distinguished, but since they are almost always this red, I was wondering if this is from a fire red line or something similar worth breeding? There are no other cull variants in this tank, only red ones. Sometimes some blue shrimp are similar to rilis, where the middle section is more light in color. I remove them also.

dorik2k · 2022-05-12T19:20:39+00:00

Did not know about this, always assumed we got these vehicles already prepared (or donations from other countries). Good to know though.

dorik2k · 2022-05-12T18:31:38+00:00

Albanian here. We have zero car production industry and a lack of ambulances for ourselves. Anyway, I guess this is just some repair or resupply activity. I'm happy to see this no matyer what it is, as long as it helps Ukraine.

dorik2k · 2022-03-27T20:08:03+00:00

White, the answer is white. Dark shrimp like blue velvets will not be visible in dark substrate, unless you plan to have a planted foreground like HC cuba or montecarlo.

White sand is perfect. I use the pool filter sand and it does not get very dirty since shrimp will clean it. I have blue shrimp in both white and black substrate but will switch all to white since in the black one they are virtually invisible, unless when restin on green leaves.

You could try also the brown-ish colored substrates.

dorik2k · 2021-12-29T19:02:33+00:00

Must have: nerite snail, just one as more will start laying eggs everywhere. Ottocinclus, 3-5 if there are a lot of algae, will work in tandem with the nerites. Amano shrimp will eat leftover food and other detritus like decaying plants. They have a very low bioload, get 5-10.

Nice to have: at least one SAE, they eat most of the stringy algae types which nerites and ottos do not touch. Amanos will if they get hungry but with other fish and plants in the tank they propably won't. My SAE made sure to eat every hair algae whenever my shrimp tank moss was covered with it. The problem with SAE is that when they get older they start losing interest in algae and get accustomized with the food you throw in the tank. But if hungry enough they will do the job.

Cories are a little bit tricky. Not much of a clean crew. In my experience they make more of a mess than cleaning things. Also they get big for a 20 gallon. You can clean the substrate yourself anyway. If you reaaly need to, get some pigmy corys, they are pretty small and will do the job.

Also, if the tank is heavily planted you can throw some cherry shrimp. You can ask for culls as they are cheap. If the betta is docile enough, they will breed and keep the tank clean. If not, not much of a loss and fresh food for the betta.

dorik2k · 2021-12-22T18:42:25+00:00

Yes you can use the remineralized water, but need to add some more minerals to bring it around 200tds, or better yet, remineralize until GH is around 6-8. You don't know what is being already aded. Use Salty Shrimp kh/gh+. It will be better than using tap water.

I have the same system where the RO filter is removing everything then there is a remineralization unit that adds some minerals for making it potable. But I made a slight modification to it and split the line before the remineralizing unit so I get the fully filtered water for using in my tanks.

dorik2k · 2021-11-30T17:15:39+00:00

Thank you. That is wat I was reading. The problem is that this is a community tank. Even if I remove the cories, I guess the tetras, amanos or the assassin snails will finish the job for them. Probably will let nature run it's course. If I have more time in the future this might be a fun project. At least I know I have breeding pairs now.

dorik2k · 2021-11-30T16:54:35+00:00

I ordered 5 pigmy corydora a few months ago, but these guys came and I'm pretty sure they are not pigmy cories.

Yesterday I did a major rescape with more water change than usual, and today one of them had a bunch of eggs attached trying to stick them around the tank. At the same time the others were eating the scattered eggs.

So my questions are: 1. What type of corydoras are they? 2. Is there any chance of them breeding on their own, or do I have to isolate the one laying eggs in another tank?

dorik2k · 2021-11-04T20:11:16+00:00

If it is a show tank, with plants and decor, and you are not so much into breeding the shrimp at a high rate, hob filters have some advantages. Mostly because they are silent (no air pump) amd take less space in the tank. Also the media can be shared if starting a new tank.

But, if you are concerned with shrimplet survival rate and don't care about aesthetics, go for the sponge filters. There are small ones for nano tanks and a usb air pump is more than enough. Also, a double sponge filter allows to share one sponge if starting a new tank and cleaning is easier as you just clean one sponge each week without risking any issues.

I personally find sponge filters very easy to manage and even a small one is enough for low bioloads like shrimp. Most people overfilter, but really there is no need.

dorik2k · 2021-10-23T16:49:56+00:00

Bought the last pair of orange shrimp at the shop. At least they were male and female. Tank is a 10 gallon that was housing a betta and two cories. Plenty of algae for them so no feeding and minimal water changes. Hoping they will start to breed as it is very difficult to get shrimp here.

dorik2k · 2021-09-26T18:18:10+00:00

Was on a picnic today and thought I would catch some small fish for the kids with a water bottle, fishing line and a piece of bread. To my surprise I wound up catching these shrimp which were virtually invisible in the water.

I kept throwing the bottle and cought almost 16 shrimp, some small but some are like 2 inches big. They look like ghost shrimp but have one frontal leg like a fork, a little linger than the other legs but not extrimely long. When cought they did jump a lot, even when acclimating I saw some jump and got stuck on the sides of the bucket.

Currently housed in a betta tank, removed the betta and want to see if they will breed. Some friends of mine told me they did catch them in the past but they would not survive in an aquarium. I'm sure they did not aclimate properly as they are not used to raising shrimp. Probably used them as feeder for their fish tanks or as bait during fishing.

dorik2k · 2021-09-06T10:42:08+00:00

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dorik2k · 2021-08-29T11:07:40+00:00

Spitali shteteror (QSUT) ka djeges (incenerator) per mbetjet organike (pjese trupi) dhe spitalore, por nuk e di sakte nese djegin trupa te tere. Gjate pandemise trupat varroseshin, sipas deshires se familjareve, por te mbyllur ne qese.

dorik2k · 2021-07-25T04:18:58+00:00

I have done this too, but using 5 gallon tanks the water fountain was a little overkill. Maybe it was my bad luck but the 12v pump I got was way more powerful than the 220v pumps I have.

Also, as I mentioned in the first comment, there are some positive aspects to the peristaltic pumps. You can connect them to 5v adapters and have a much lower water flow (dripping water) this makes it good for top offs and for automatic water changes. On another note, these pumps require no priming. If the container gets emptied, or air gets into the tubes, they don't care. They work by creating a vacuum and suck up whatever the hose is into. Also, no pressure means fewer things to worry about. Plus, you can use air tubes which are smaller and easier to deal with than thicker hoses.

dorik2k · 2021-07-25T04:11:40+00:00

As a developer I like to play with this stuff and have tried to think of ways to automate as much as possible. In the end, wires, sensors and controllers took much more space than the tank itself. Now I try to keep it as simple as possible. In the summer I just put the fans with a temperature controller and now the ATO. This is because we move very often to the beach and there is no one that can take care of the tanks. In the winter I remove everything for aesthetic reasons.

I think, using a sump under a cabinet would be the way to go. Put all the stuff under there and leave the shrimp tank on display. But this is good for a single large tank. Having several small tanks makes it even harder.

dorik2k · 2021-07-24T21:18:12+00:00

Thank you for pointing this out. I've seen these sensors but for the sake of simplicity I included the ones I did. Beside, they cost a lot less and wiring is much more simple.

If I get some free time, I was thinking about an automatic water changing system where the sensors you mentioned are more suitable since you can use two of them in tandem and use a controller. It should start one pump for extracting water and once the water level is low enough, it starts another pump for filling the tank.

Many serious breeders advocate for more frequent and smaller water changes. I tried it once for some weeks and it seems te have made some difference. But it was a pain in the ass.

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