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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Yeah because you need these fishes to eat your 1,000,000 snails @FLFishChik
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    Verrrrry cool!
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    The scutariella japonica treatment will take ~1 month to complete and will be started on Sunday, as I'm diving tomorrow and won't be home to monitor wellbeing or pull molts. Medicine must be diluted with tank water and dripped in while monitoring shrimp for signs of stress, at which point the drip can be paused. An extra airstone is also required for this treatment due to the viscosity of the medication. Driftwood must also be pulled as it has a tendency to absorb or lessen the effectiveness of this med. Plants may or may not be ok with this, so they have been pulled. Also plants hide shrimp and molts... I will let some sprigs float around though for grazing and a sense of security. (7 days Prazi-Pro + 3 days rest) x 3 3 cycles are needed to account for flatworms laying eggs within the carapace, and eggs being released into the tank or consumed by other shrimp after molting. Molts will be pulled daily to prevent consumption. The 5g has been set up with a seeded sponge and tank water to prepare for treatment of the wild shrimp. I still need to catch them from the Walstad jar and the 29g. The 29g is not going to be treated and will remain without shrimp for at least 2 months, to allow flatworms/eggs/new flatworms to die out without the presence of hosts. I need to confirm 2 months is enough time; I haven't had time to verify the life cycle yet, but once I have the shrimp out of the tank, I will have more time to research. Just trying to take things a day at a time. I am under the wing of a very excellent mentor, @Torrey who has dealt with SJ several times prior and proactively quarantines now for prevention. They shared some experiences, good and bad, (ie: how not diluting & dripping in meds, and how not adding extra air, can cause losses).
  4. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The hole in the bottom fin. It had been healing with clear tissue but it’s back to being a hole. Other fins are much improved.
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  6. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I got a better pic of this shrimp today. Neat.
  7. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Welp, Button has met Hampshire already. You could say they are attached at the hip.
  8. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Looking like a queen
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @FLFishChik how are the 2 pea puffers doing?
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You take Nanci, for me Loretta's fine.
  11. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Marimo moss balls are technically algae. Could be a grazing option for your plecos? @Colu
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    He totally did. The ramshorn was chillin on a piece of grass and never saw the impending doom...🤣
  13. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Shiny
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Did he eat that ramshorn?
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @Guppysnail found a gravelish-sandish product. A very fine gravel that looks like sand.
  16. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    ☝️ Yep.
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    When I first started my shrimp colony, it was my water change method causing some casualties. Now that I drip water back into the tank, I don't lose shrimp @Proy
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    At this stage I'd add some bottled bacteria and some plants. Both will take up the ammonia and nitrite. I also like to keep a nerite in with my shrimp as well. Both the shrimp and the beneficial bacteria will benefit from the nerite's waste, and the nerite will help keep your glass clean. It's easy to keep the nerite fed as well, because when shrimp eat, they pick at the food and it distributes and lands on surfaces, which the nerite will graze on.
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I have the special, invisible non-scooching shrimp. The majority I find are not visible w/ the naked eye, not even with a flashlight. I only find them with magnification aids. It takes some time, and can only be done after the mulm has settled. I've also gotten into the habit of leaving the mulm bucket sit til the next day as well, and then I check again in the morning. I use a magnifying glass that has a sort of bifocal thing on it, and I have also been using the magnifier app. I need to get something better though. I read a few recommendations on the Flipper magnifier. The shrimplets are just barely bigger than a grain of sand. They don't necessarily move/swim around either, so I cannot rely on that to locate them.
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Ok, but you forgot to include the photo of Gretel. Bonus points for orange ink 🧡
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You have to be careful if breeding. Shrimplets can fit through the tiniest of holes and next thing you know, all the tanks are producing wild/brown shrimps.
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I have to treat the shrimp tank but the meds are not safe for my snail friends.
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Qt (no meds) setup. Nibbles and the other MTS added today. Nibbles got his catappa and after a minute to gain his bearings, latched on. The MTS seem to have cleaned the sand I put in there already, and my flower pot holding the sand was dumped because I couldn’t move it around without sand flowing out of the hole on the bottom, which I forgot to seal. Lastly I dosed this “tank” with bacter Ae. Oh, and found a shrimplet in there. No doubt came out of the sponge filter. I didn’t really clean the sponge filter when I added it a week ago. I thought this was just a plant holding area at the time. Returned shrimplet to the colony. Check out the snoot on this gal. She’s like a mini rabbit snail.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Button was unfazed by his drip acclimation to the 29g and immediately found a food dish and made a friend.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Very exciting @Shadow! Looking forward to following along! 🦐
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