[Shrimp dying / everything else thriving?!]

On 6/14/2023 at 4:58 PM, Allan said:

My Endlers kill shrimp for fun.  They don't eat them after, they just peck at the shrimp until they are dead.  Tons of plants for shrimp to hide in, but the enders seek them out, it's like a game to them.

I have cherry shrimp in my endler tanks.  The adults do fine but baby shrimp must be eaten as the numbers don't grow

On 6/14/2023 at 4:58 PM, Allan said:

My Endlers kill shrimp for fun.  They don't eat them after, they just peck at the shrimp until they are dead.  Tons of plants for shrimp to hide in, but the enders seek them out, it's like a game to them.

 

[Cherry shrimp tank substrate recommendations]

I have 7 tanks of different colored hrimp in planted tanks.  I put down a 1/2 layer of EcoComplete and then an inch of standard aquarium gravel.  I find any color shrimp easy to see when the tank lights are on.

[Hardy fish for a community tank]

I have three community tanks (55, 29 and 29) and between them probably at least 30 different fish.  What fish do you find are the hardiest in your community tanks and which ones do you find aren't.  I have good luck with:  any type of cory catfish, rummy nose tetras, cardinal tetras, tiger barbs, clown loaches, angel fish, glass cats, red eyed tetras, angel fish, pricilla tetras, bristle nose plecos and diamond tetras.  What don't do well for me:  silver tip tetras, ember tetras, mollies, dwarf gourami, and kuhli loaches. 

[Quick Question On Gravel For A Planted Tank]

one inch of eco complete and one inch of pebble gravel works well for me

[What salt do you use to hatch Brine Shrimp?]

I use marine salt

[Just Got Neocaridina Shrimp]

If you intend to breed them I have had the best luck in a tank with no fish.  Any fish will prey on the baby shrimp.  Also, it is very important to drip acclimate them if you are moving them to a different tank.

[Feeding A Community Tank - What's Your Feeding Schedule Look Like?]

I have three community tanks, 55 and two 29,  All are heavily planted and heavily stocked.  I feed in evening when I get home and skip on Sundays.  I feed some pelleted food and some flake food  at each feeding. This has always worked for me.  Also a couple times a month I hatch out some baby brine shrimp and feed that.

[Anyone ever have a snail escape?]

When I first kept MS's I learned the hard way that if you give them an opening big enough they will crawl out and die

[Cloudy Water - Not Sure How to Get Rid of It]

Dosing your tank with a product that adds live beneficial bacteria may help

[Cherry Shrimp - Genetic Diversity]

As long as the shrimp are healthy and have good color it should be fine.

[First water change in shrimp tank.]

10-15% is good.  Use RO water if u can

[Do Snails have a Breeding Season?]

I have eight tanks w RH snails.  They keep things cleaned up and yes they do reproduce.  When the snails get big I crush them up and feed them to my fish.  Recycling them as I say.

[Moving from HOB to co-op sponge filter]

Get the SF going then take your dirty filter media from HOB and squeeze in in the tank water a couple of times.  Run both for 2 weeks then remove SF.  You should be good to go.

[Problems with my female endlers]

• pH 6.2
• Nitrates 50
• Hardness 200
• Nitrite 0
• Ammonia 0
• KH/Buffer 0
• Water Temperature 76

[Problems with my female endlers]

I don't know if someone could help me with this or not.  I raise Endler fish. I have had a couple of the large females die recently.  The had enlarged abdomens and appeared to be pregnant.  I cut them open to see the babies but instead discovered that the had fluid in their abdomen. They are in a tank with several other adult females that also appear pregnant.  Any ideas what this might be?

[Bristlenose Pleco Feeding...]

I have plecos is several of my community tanks and they have always seemed to do quite well on the flake and pelleted food I feed the fish.  I supplement with algae wafers and blanched zucchini.  There is Malaysian drift wood and chola wood in the tank.

[Pleco poop]

Dietary guidelines as per Petco's site:

Some species of pleco exclusively eat algae, while others eat plants. Some are more carnivorous, still others mainly eat wood fiber and the small crustaceans who live within the wood. In general, plecos are opportunistic scavengers who will eat anything that comes their way. A well-balanced pleco diet consists of:

• Algae and sinking algae wafers (or pleco wafers)
• Plecos require plenty of fiber. Supplement with raw zucchini, sweet potato, carrots, lettuce, spinach or cucumbers as a treat once or twice a week. Raw vegetables should be anchored near the bottom of the aquarium
• Some plecos require driftwood as part of their diet, supplying them with cellulose and lignin
• More carnivorous species need higher-protein foods such as bloodworms, shrimp pellets, krill or brine shrimp 

[Cherry Shrimp and snails in the same tank.]

Makes sense.

[Cherry Shrimp and snails in the same tank.]

I have a six tanks with various colors of neocaaridina shrimp.  The tanks are heavily planted with a good growth of algae on the back and sides.  The shrimp breed well.   I feed various kinds of shrimp specific foods including Bacter AE.  They get flake and pelleted fish foods and blanched zucchini once weekly.  I put a small Wondershell in the tank every few months or so. I do a 15% water change a couple times a month. When I have added small mystery snails or rams horn snails from my community tanks they never live very long.  Anyone have an idea why.

[Best Ember Tetra Foods]

Any food quality fish food flakes.  I hatch out baby brine shrimp and feed that once a week.  They love it

[l Has anyone had experience with selling on aqua bid?]

Thanks all.  Most appreciate the advice

[l Has anyone had experience with selling on aqua bid?]

I have been raising Endlers, cherry Shrimp and Mystery Snails.   The local fish stores will take them on trade but I only get 30% of what they sell them for.  I was thinking of selling them on Aquabid.  Has anyone done this and what was your experience   good or bad?

[Small guppy triumph at last]

I have been raising Endlers for a couple years now.  I started with pair of Scarlet Reds in a planted 20 gallon tank  They have reproduced like crazy.  Some of the offspring are Black Bar Endlers but most are Scarlets.  I take the Black Bars out of the tank and move them to another 20 gallon to breed.  They seem to be quite hardy and as far as I can tell they don't eat the fry.  I recently took 36 pair of each to a local aquarium store and bartered them for store credit.

[Combining Red Cherry Shrimp & Guppies in same tank]

Shrimp are extremely sensitive to  changes in water parameters.  I suspect the new tank's water differed from the tank they came with.  Especially if you didn't drip acclimated first.  As far as guppies with shrimp goes it needs to be a heavily planted tank or the guppies would probably eat the young shrimp.  I have cherry shrimp in my Endler breeding tank and they do fine (it is heavily planted.

[looking for neon tetras]

Might try e bay