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  1. Minanora
    I think you'll find more success with a slightly larger tank. Just because there's more food to go around all of the time without fouling the water as easily. What size tank are your cherry shrimp in? The blues? Where are you getting your stock from for your orange? Have you talked with the supplier about the water they keep their shrimp in? Are they surviving and just not breeding? Or dying off?
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    I've been a busy momma. All the kids are happy. I have lots of baby guppies, baby swordtails, and baby panda cories! We left for vacation for 9 days, as we left there were a bunch of cory eggs in the plaza. I'd been watching the eggs for a few days before we left. Now there's 4 more tiny cories! The other two are getting much bigger. One of the saddleback male guppies is missing a tail now... not sure what happened there. He's swimming around just fine but dang. Poor guy. All of the shrimp are doing great! I have allllllll the shrimps. Mr swimmy has started ignoring the guppies again; Thankfully. My fish-she shed may be turning into a rack in our office closet. For the sake of saving energy. Plus we can put in a "washer/dryer" hookup so it won't be "crazy fish lady lived here" >.>' heh. yeah well crazy fish lady lives here.... heheheheh. YES! *shakes fist in triumph* My phone hasn't backed up its photos yet, but when it does, I'll upload photos of all the things. For now I have to focus on getting water out from under the house.... again..... and getting our gas back on.... Bleh. I love you all! I miss all of your adventures and I hope to catch up soon.
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    Tiny panda! My husband and I sat and watched, there's definitely at least two.
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    Whaaa!!!! There he is!!!! Awesome. 😂 Thank you friend. Little curious bean. He's so cute! Actually.... That's a different one. The other baby is about half that size. So now there's at least 11 pandas! 💚
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    I see the baby panda out more every day! The pandas are trying to lay eggs inside the shrimp tubes. They're laying eggs everywhere!!! The tiny panda is still too hard to get photos of. Eventually he'll join the Cory feeding frenzy! Also, my lfs got my light ordered for me! The plaza now has the easy plant LED light!
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    I put my duckweed in my compost. It's one of the most potent "hot" adds I ever put in my compost. The brown to green ratio with duckweed is like, 500 brown to 1 part duckweed. 😛 I also leave duckweed in cups on accident and then find them by smell afterwards. It's unpleasant to the highest degree. I will totally try blending some duckweed and vita chem though. Always happy to reuse good nutrients. Though my green beans LOVE duckweed compost tea, so do my spring peas, and my corn. 😄 Eventually I'll have chickens, hatching eggs this year!
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    I do feed mine spawn and grow every now and again. Lol
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    Hello fam! The chaos continues! I'm keeping busy busy. Fish are happy, plants are surviving, shrimp are booming. I've been in a pretty good place and it's been, well, good. It's been a whirlwind but I'm fine, just not getting what I WANT to get done finished. There has been 0 activity in the fish-she shed. But all of my fruit trees are pruned, there's a healthy bounty of food in the garden and we have clean laundry and dishes! Lol ANYWAY, Onto the good stuff! I have baby pandas! I saw one today for the first time! I got some of those shrimp tubes from my LFS, the ones from seachem that are only to be sold in retail stores. Expensive, not as cool as the co-op shrimp domes but I got them so my yellow shrimp would have more hiding places around the food dish but not get in the way too much. Totally worth it since it's where I saw the CUTEST THING EVER!!!! Tiny panda! Wooooo! There's also black saddle guppy fry and lots of goldenback yellow shrimplettes hiding in my mess of floating stargrass in the plaza. I have a ton of swordtail babies as well, raising them out in the "that shouldn't exist" tank in the office. Ehehm, I really need that fishroom. The 75 is doing what it does, looking good, happy shrimps and fish. Chili ruins is running okay; the dwarf water lettuce is taking over as usual so the roots are hiding everything. Shrimp Sanctuary is booming, water needs to be changed but the shrimp are happy so that's all good with me. I think I've decided on my rack setup for the fishroom. I'm thinking three rows of tanks on a rack; One row having 2 20G longs and one 10G between them. Second row will have 7 10G tanks, and the bottom row will have a 75G and 2 20G high tanks. My otos are very, very, gravid. the three girls in the plaza are HUGE. Boys are adorable, I don't think they know what to think of the ladies. They're twice their size and ravenous. Twin oto boys; nose to nose.
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    Funny story, today I found my first baby panda cory in the plaza! I am just getting online to update my adventures. My tank is planted, has quite a few plants, driftwood, rocks; its a 40 breeder. I keep the tank at about 74 degrees. pH is 6.8, KH is about 40, GH is like 300. I mainly feed dry foods. My cories spawn constantly. I rotate between several foods but not as many as I'd like. They lay eggs in the evening; they like to lay them on plant leaves. Also had one lay one on a shrimp.... *Shrug* I will say, i have very few snails in the tank; and only MTS, no other species of snail. Snails eat cory eggs. My three stripe cories lay LOTS of eggs but they all get eaten by the bladder snails. @nabokovfan87 and @Guppysnail told me that one day I'd just randomly see a baby cory from the pandas. That totally happened today.
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    The funny part is... we don't have a basement.... our crawlspace is about 2.5' deep.... so..... yeah you couldn't get under our house.... all of my HVAC flooded... And yeah, insurance doesn't cover it. 😄 Hooray........ So.... I need to redo all of the ducting and insulation. At least all of my bottom plates are dry.... ish. The water soaked into the brick foundation, so the bottom plates got wet, but only a bit. However.... it will invite termites next season so we have to be very careful and check for tubes for the next three years, every 2 months.... adulting. OH and we had to BLEACH BOMB under the house. Guess what that did to our galvanized pipes.. 😄 >.> It's not bad, but not good. the strapping is most damaged, so we're fixing those, but ugh. there's been flooding under the house 20+ years ago where they didn't take care of stuff like we have. So we're dealing with it now. It's fine though, I wanted to do work under the house anyway, but now I have to wait until it's dry. Eh. Um... I have baby swordtails I didn't ask for.... and AWESOME black saddle guppy babies that are turning out to be so lovely. OMG and I have SOOOO much duckweed. it's amazing. 😛 jk... I can't get rid of it, help, I need napalm. I am making the best of it all. It's been crazy. 2023... the year of... well... "Oh my"
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    Hi friends. I'm still at it! All the fish and shrimp kids are happy, I just have been super busy with the small human, trees, gardening, all the rain we had did a number... we had some huge land slides on our other property.... Oh, and we're getting solar on our roof.... so I've been dealing with contracting that. Finally got a company. Oh then all the other things that life throws at us. Eventually we'll work on the fish-she shed. Just working on all the other stuff. Solar, the property, work (I strive to keep my clients happy), camping!, LAKE FULLLLLLLL, I can't even... just... LAKE..... I keep going to the lake.... Regardless of how expensive gas is.... skipping rocks, taking a hike, jogging, tracking the deer, pigs, eagles, mountain lions, bobcats, fox.... I've loved it so much. What a season! Plus I have had to take down a ton of wood. Lots of trees had to come down, and well I need to do it while it's cool.... getting up on the cliffs with the chainsaw by myself is a pain... especially when it warms up. the winter game trails really help, and it's keeping us in check for fire season next season... and fueling our fireplace for next winter. ^_^ Stuff.... Yeah, but all of my fish are happy and I've had time to sit and enjoy all of the tanks! I love it!
  12. Minanora
    I don't drip acclimate between tanks for culls. Depending on age, I either plop and drop or acclimate like my fish.
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    @tolstoy21 I forgot about the bee pollen..... I bet you're absolutely right. I recently changed my feeding routine a bit, so I'm only feeding bee pollen once a week. But I can see how it could contribute to clouding the water. The tiny nicrew internal filter has been working like a charm. When I keep it clean... Ehem. It clogs up super fast so I am not letting it do the best job it could. A finer sponge is a good idea. Did you find one that you can attach an air stone to? I have a small fine one somewhere but you can't adjust the bubble stream like the co-op sponges. I may be able to make a replacement sponge for that co-op one I guess. My shrimp are still breeding like crazy in all tanks. I now have yellow goldenback neocaridina shrimp in my son's new setup. Eventually, I'll have orange rili and yellow rili in their own tanks in the future fish room. I'll move my main orange colony into the fish room as well.
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    Ok. Here we go. Plaza - 13° GH 8° KH 20H - 8° GH 10° KH Chili ruins - 17°GH 11° KH Shrimp Sanctuary - 14° GH 7° KH 75 - 15° GH 9° KH I think the chili ruins is going to get a water change.... Poor chili rasboras. Sheesh.
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    Eventually I'll get out of bed and compare all of my water parameters across all my tanks.... I'm one of the "most of the original shrimp will pass away faster but the babies will be bullet proof" people as well. That's been my experience consistently between my orange and yellow neocaridina. Shrimpletts are far more resilient than adult shrimp in my experience as well. I have moved to feeding primarily prepared glasgarten foods. Mainly shrimp baby, mineral junkie, and shrimp dinner 2. At least that's what I feed three of my colonies. Every tank gets mineral junkie about once a week, except the 75, I don't usually put any in there. Not for any particular reason, I just don't usually do it. I don't usually feed the shrimp directly in the 75 at all. They eat everything that goes in for everyone else. I try to have a piece of mineral junkie where I can see it, I watch how fast it's getting eaten. I only put enough in to last 3 days. Then once it's gone, I wait a few days and add a bit more. I add shrimp baby food once every other day if I see shrimpletts. Once a week if there aren't tiny shrimp. I add about 1/3 a scoop for my 5.5 colony. Same for the plaza. Half a scoop for the colony in the 20H that shouldn't exist. A tiny fraction for the shrimp in the 2.6G. I add shrimp dinner every few days. 5 pads in my 5.5. half of one in the 2.6. 4 in the 20H. 2 in the 40B plaza. I try to make sure they only get enough that it lasts 24-30 hours in the tank max. I feed mineral junkie and shrimp baby at the same time usually. To make sure they're eating what they need, not just what's available at the time. The feedings usually line up naturally. Mineral junkie lasts longer. They usually have catappa leaves to eat. Alder cones as well. I only put in one to three cones every few months. I use tiny ones in the small tanks, bigger ones (or more of cones) in the bigger tanks. I do generally do 50% water changes on all my tanks. Even the shrimp sanctuary. I use hard hose water in the 75. Softened water/RO mix in the plaza. RO water in the 2.6, softened water/hard water mix in the 20H, and RO water remineralized with salty shrimp GH/KH in the 5.5 shrimp sanctuary. I add new water in the sanctuary with an air line tube. (Room temp) The 20 and 40B are added by 10L totes at a time (room temp ish), the 75 gets the hose at 3gpm (cold), and the 2.6 gets water added by large taco bell cup full (room temp). I probably change water once a month on every tank except the 75. 75 is usually biweekly. I try to change more water in the summer when I feed more and it's warmer inside and outside. I feed less in the winter to limit water changes since all the water is cooler. I don't mind if that means less babies in the winter. I'll get my parameters posted in a bit. I need coffee....
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    Yeah then my dad showed up at my door after I told him not to come around, almost 5 years ago now. So the last 24 hours have been an emotional mess for me. Luckily my husband was home to take my son away so he didn't come to the door with me. However I shouldn't have been the one to answer the door. God had another plan though. Still, the inner battle is real. I just want to be in a safe place.
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    I know I've been gone for a minute. These storms have created a lot of chaos for us. It's been one thing after another. I could have left the 10,000+ gallons of water under the house and had some epic pond action I guess. Yeah... no. I got more yellow shrimps on Thursday, this time, all but one survived acclimation! Huzzah! I put them in the tank.... I haven't seen more than 12 at a time, but I'm sure most of the 30 new shrimps are in there somewhere! I trimmed plants in all of the tanks, cleaned up duckweed. Mr. Swimmy has been terrorizing everyone in the 75.... so he's in a mesh breeder as of today. 😞 I need to work on my fish-she shed. The storms have slowed progress, we're 3 weeks behind, but that's okay. The storms were a blessing for that project. Now I see where the roof needs to be redone, and where water was flowing through gopher holes to the door and flooding the space. SO, I can take care of those problems now, instead of having much larger issues in the future. Anyway, I'm still hanging in there. I miss you guys! Normal activities should resume soon, I hope! I got more otos, we have 7 in my sons tank now, they're all very fat and happy! I got black saddle guppies.... they're happy! I re-acquired some of my black swordtails, two girls... so now I have babies in a tank that shouldn't exist... 😄 *shrug* All the more reason to get my fish-she space done. We have to put a new roof on the house though... and solar... and redo all of our hvac under the house.... yeah, going to be a minute for my fish-she shed. Lets be real. T^T Adult me and carefree me.... they're sitting in a room talking about how they want to go on vacation. hahahaha.
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    Yup. That's super neat. Clever idea! I wonder how many WoT books it can hold at one time without being too heavy 🤣
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    I would suggest store credit. That way you can use it on fish or supplies. You won't need fish all the time.
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    Those shelves are really cool. I've never seen anything like those. The tank looks great! I love the rocks and it's sized so well. It really could be 2 inches taller though. It looks way long. But it's really lovely. I look forward to seeing the fish in there! That'll make it incredible.
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    It happens to me as well and I have a Samsung phone. Happened on my pixel as well. Depending on the mode/aspect ratio of my photo it doesn't happen. If I take a vertical photo with my wide lens they go upside down. Also in the "off topic" section of the forum there's a thread about "show off your garden" there's a few avid gardeners with us here. 😁
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    ORD 😍
  23. Minanora
    I have had shrimp survive in specimen containers for weeks without air stones or a heater. I had one Tupperware with some that got moved without my knowing and they had almost all their water evaporate and then they were fine after I found them. I still don't know how long those went without an air stone, heat, food and light. It had to be over a month. Generally those shrimp all had mulm with them since they were from filter cleaning out gravel vacuuming. Another example with no mulm, I bagged about 50 shrimp per bag to take to my local shop, bagged them at about 7am, left the bags open and sitting in containers for 6 hours then closed them up and took them to my local shop. One died but he got smooshed by a folded over bag corner in transport. You should have no issue with a small bucket for a few hours. Just use their tank water and don't water change on the same day so there's less stress. They love plant sprigs. I add small bits of stem plants when I ship shrimp. You've got this. It's nerve-wracking the first few times around, but you'll be surprised at how resilient they are.
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    Awesome update. Exciting to see so much change. I can hardly wait to see how everything fills in!
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    You can clean the rocks off when they're under water. The sand can just be brushed off. Much easier than damp surfaces. Looking forward to seeing it flooded!
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