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LilBoot

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  1. Week one with shrimp, have had 1 confirmed death, and 2 confirmed molts. I can see for sure 4 females, and maybe 3 small males. Hopefully get some breeding to the colony. Added more plants and driftwoods. No water changes yet just top off. Had to remove the zebra nerite, he was not doing well. Barely moving, maybe just too cold for him, put him in my 20 gallon.
  2. Here goes… https://imgur.com/a/JK6Jg4g literally zero fear from the little guy as they poke and nip around him, fingers crossed!
  3. Thanks! I think he has a bit of wood and a few places to hide ! Will put him in this weekend.
  4. It got a sponge filter and heater in it. I have a pvc elbow and a piece of seasoned driftwood. I don’t want to keep him long it’s just that all the occupants of the other tank are aholes. I don’t want him to be killed because he so small.
  5. I currently have a BN Pleco in a 5 gallon QT. This was only temporary for about two week. Question is, it's a real small guy and he is going in to a 29 Gal with a big school of tiger barbs and serpae tetras. I would like to grow him out a bit, but don't want to hamper him in that small tank. Realistically as long as i kept up good water quality could i leave him there?
  6. Thanks! So much a work in progress, lots of trial and error…this forum plus you tube have made it possible.
  7. Going to try to remember all that i picked up this weekend, but here is list and tanks after planting: s repens potted (split into 4), 2 clumps susswasswertang , 1 hydroctyl japan tissue culture (split into 4), 1 flame sword potted (4 inside), 1 bunch red root floater, 1 pink flamingo crypt tissue culture (4 inside), 1 octo pogo, 2 corkscrew val , 2 crinium , also, 2 cholla mini, red reli shrimp, female betta, tiger nerite snail, super red pleco,
  8. Went to Aquashella this weekend, loaded up on plants, a few fish, and of course found the shrimp for this project. I went with the Red Reli shrimp, they looked nice, i had not had them before, and most importantly they were in my budget. I performed a water change early in the day, did a water acclimation, and finally a drip acclimation. I added a s. repens, a flamingo crypt, susswassertang, hydrocotyle japan and some red root floaters all that i got from show. Also floating a piece of cholla wood i got as well. When i went to bed i had noticed no casualties. I will see what they look like when i get home from work this afternoon. Grabbed a tiger nerite snail as well! I will post update. Hopefully i can clean this tank real nice in a few weeks once it balance out and and the plants grow in a bit, get some better looking tank shots. Yup, i had one big chunk leftover from when i rescaped my 29 gallon a few months ago.
  9. Wrung out another filter sponge into the tank earlier this week, made a complete disaster of the tank…however the tank is full cycled and has a good amount of algae growing…going to try to pickup my shrimp this weekend.
  10. Pulled some plants from my other tanks, still need to add as many as I cram in. Will do that in a couple of weeks.
  11. Added river rock pebbles to cap the stratum, like the look better.
  12. The top is my 20L Community, the bottom is my 29g semi-aggressive. about 3 hours south of you, near CC.
  13. Thanks! i have a few options in my current tanks, but haven't decided yet which to use!
  14. So, went up in the attic last week to store something and ran across my old marinland portrait 5.5 gallon aquarium. It was a gift from my kids a few Father’s Day past. It was meant to upgrade my betta 2.5 gallon temp tank he had been happily living in. Unfortunately, as he was a full fin guy, the height of the tank was not the best environment for him. I ended up upgrading to a 20 long planted. I retired the portrait and hadn’t thought about it since. Anyways I have been trying to test my hand at shrimp. I have a few cherrys in my community tank, but want to dive head first into Cardina shrimp. Now I haven’t a clue how I’m going to solve my hard water issue, but here is the first step. I cleaned and setup the portrait on my dresser. I used the small bag of fluval stratum, and an old lava rock that had been removed from my old tank. I had a cycled filter from another tank, but went ahead and wrung out another sponge to muck up the tank real nice. Going to run the lights for 16 hours a day for the next 2 weeks see if I can get some good algae growing. I’ll add some plants, reduce the lights and introduce the shrimp probably around August 7. I’m going to Aquashella in Dallas that weekend and will probably have all kind of goodies to add. If anyone has shrimp experience, add sees me doing something incorrect, please feel free to drop a line in the thread.
  15. Greeting all, I am a aquarium hobbyist that got back into it about 3 years ago. I currently have 3 tanks, working on another. Glad to be a part of the community. 😃
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