eatyourpeas Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 On 11/4/2021 at 10:59 PM, Crabby said: She’s doing a pretty good job at pretending then! They are very good at concealing themselves. I always have to look hard to find them, so it is a fun game of hide an seek. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 So many babies! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 On 11/8/2021 at 3:36 AM, eatyourpeas said: So many babies! Teach me your ways 😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 Found more babies, and another berried shrimp! The crabs are starting to wonder as well... 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 13, 2021 Author Share Posted November 13, 2021 On 11/7/2021 at 8:41 PM, Crabby said: Teach me your ways 😂 I wish I knew what is in this tank that makes them so prolific. Is it that they can hide behind the wood? Is it the tannins? Is it that the crabs are always watching? I'll be sure to share when I discover the secret! 😎 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 Well, the Vampire crabs have Halloween covered, now with these guys, who needs a Christmas tree??? 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 On 11/12/2021 at 5:26 PM, eatyourpeas said: Is it that the crabs are always watching? 😆 I have no words! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 Yep, they are at it again! More shrimplets! This is now the Shrimpalooza Tank! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 And, wait for it... two more girls are berried!!! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Ahhhh….and so it begins. Now you see how they can eventually become tiny terrorists 🤣. I’m happy they like their home and are prolific for you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 I seriously think the "birds and the bees" talk should include shrimp! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Bladder snails have nothing on shrimp once they get going 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 On 11/27/2021 at 2:53 PM, Guppysnail said: Ahhhh….and so it begins. Now you see how they can eventually become tiny terrorists 🤣. I’m happy they like their home and are prolific for you. I love it too! But I need to extract a few of them and move them to other tanks. There are over 100 shrimp in a six gallon tank filled half way! On 11/27/2021 at 2:54 PM, Guppysnail said: Bladder snails have nothing on shrimp once they get going True. That is my supply farm for the pea puffers! 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Yes I was removing tons of the weekly from my poor little Pygmy cory 10g tank. My Pygmy started hiding from the tiny terrorists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) On 11/27/2021 at 2:56 PM, Guppysnail said: Yes I was removing tons of the weekly from my poor little Pygmy cory 10g tank. My Pygmy started hiding from the tiny terrorists The shrimp in the Pygmy cory tank are not breeding. Either that or the Kuhli loach is having a feast at night when he comes out. He does look like a sausage now that I think of it! Edited November 27, 2021 by eatyourpeas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted December 5, 2021 Author Share Posted December 5, 2021 Ahh... more babies spotted this morning. I need to design a trap so I can extract a few of these shrimp and moved to another tank. With all the wood and nooks and crannies it is very difficult to catch them unless I siphon them, which is not very nice. 😟 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 @eatyourpeas I found a fairly simple way to trap fish that would work for shrimp: put some sinking food inside an empty cookie tub from Trader Joe’s. (Any tub with tall sides will work, I’m sure! This is just what I had on hand.) Then wait half an hour, come back, and put the lid over the tub while you take it out. Some creatures will get scared and escape when you lower the lid over the tub, but most of them try to swim down rather than up. And if you lower the lid slowly, they may not notice. 😄 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 I use the net style breeder box. The one with the chincey plastic net and just put repashy in and lift it out. Smaller tanks I just put the food in a net ( the square coop nets would be perfect for this but I have not caught shrimp since I got mine) and jus lift it out. Mine I think would fight me to the death before leaving their precious repashy. I have also done my repashy on a stick closer to the top of the tank and once they are on the stick used the net breeder to engulf them and the stick and lift them out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted December 10, 2021 Author Share Posted December 10, 2021 Thank you @Hobbit and @Guppysnail for the suggestions. I have about 1" square of space to execute this extraction maneuver, so, not a lot of room. I am going to try to combine your suggestions with a 1" acrylic tube that is a leftover of the skimmer I made, put a cube of Repashy inside on a skewer, somehow a net underneath it all, and see how that works. Also, I noticed very few Ramshorn and Bladder snails, and found one Malasyan Trumpet snail. I wonder if the crabs have developed a taste for gastropods. 🦀🐌 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 @eatyourpeasI thoroughly enjoyed catching up on the last few months of this tank. Delightful. I have found that my neocaridina love unconventional tanks - plastic tubs I use in the garage fish wall, the current edition of The Sad Bowl, etc. I was never able to breed them consistently in a tank like in my Flex 15 which I designed as a shrimp tank. So odd. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 Took the cover off for the first time since setting the tank up. Mosses are looking happy, lots of healthy fungus on the wood, which makes me wonder if that is the shrimphrodisiac in that tank. 😵 New babies (again!). On 12/10/2021 at 2:01 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: I thoroughly enjoyed catching up on the last few months of this tank. Delightful. I have found that my neocaridina love unconventional tanks - plastic tubs I use in the garage fish wall, the current edition of The Sad Bowl, etc. I was never able to breed them consistently in a tank like in my Flex 15 which I designed as a shrimp tank. So odd. Leave it to the shrimp to do the opposite of what you intend! 🤪 Thanks, I am glad you are enjoying it. 😍 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 Morning light on the tank (please excuse the dirty glass). And, yes, more shrimplets! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 Repashy breakfast call! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 Deployed the first installment of The Mosquito Fleet to the pea puffer tank (E-schi). They immediately made themselves at home and sent poor E-schi to the back of the tank. We'll see how long this lasts before E-schi figures out he can snack on them! 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatyourpeas Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 Pea puffer has figured out they are snacks and is actively hunting them! 🦐 🐡 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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