Solstice_Lacer Posted November 20, 2021 Author Share Posted November 20, 2021 We love leaf, thanks mom. (Idk why one pic is upside down, sorry) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Seeing molts is a very good sign. Looks beautiful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 Trying to keep the hornwort in check and keep things from getting too overgrown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 I don't necessarily feel like making a journal just for this planted bowl, so I'll put it here I guess. Got some red ramshorn snails for it today 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted December 23, 2021 Author Share Posted December 23, 2021 Three very berried females hanging out on a stick together. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 @Solstice_LacerI love a good planted bowl and that is an excellent one! Congratulations on all the success with your colony of cherry shrimp. Lovely deep red color, what are you feeding them? I find hornwort to be an excellent plant for neocaridina, lots of surface area and they love to hang out on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted December 23, 2021 Author Share Posted December 23, 2021 On 12/23/2021 at 11:21 AM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: @Solstice_LacerI love a good planted bowl and that is an excellent one! Congratulations on all the success with your colony of cherry shrimp. Lovely deep red color, what are you feeding them? I find hornwort to be an excellent plant for neocaridina, lots of surface area and they love to hang out on it. Thank you, they mainly eat aqueon shrimp pellets, and they always have Indian almond leaves. There's also lots of plants and wood to collect biofilm. I don't see wood mentioned a ton in regards to cherry shrimp, but they seem to love grazing on it and I wonder if it grows a specific type of yummy stuff for them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 @Solstice_LacerI've always had wood in my shrimp setups and agree that it is highly underrated. I was watching Shrimp Time on YT and he mentioned how much he likes wood for its ability to provide biofilm for his shrimps. Same thing with any leaves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyGenusCaps Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 It looks like you have assassin snails in the 25, @Solstice_Lacer. How often do you feed them? I had some for awhile, but unless I fed them copious quantities of snails, they seemed to starve. I'm thinking about getting some again now that I have a snail species that I can count on to breed like mad, but I'm curious about how you maintain them. I feel like there had to be a better way than what I was doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 On 12/26/2021 at 9:56 AM, OnlyGenusCaps said: It looks like you have assassin snails in the 25, @Solstice_Lacer. How often do you feed them? I had some for awhile, but unless I fed them copious quantities of snails, they seemed to starve. I'm thinking about getting some again now that I have a snail species that I can count on to breed like mad, but I'm curious about how you maintain them. I feel like there had to be a better way than what I was doing. I think I have two, but I only ever see one. Idk if one died or is just extremely private. I've seen the one nibble on food I put in for the shrimp. And there still seems to be a few "pest" snails in my tank, so I may be lucky enough to have found an equilibrium where they breed faster than they can be eaten. I'm currently trying to breed some ramshorn snails to deal with some algae and provide additional food for the assassin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 Just an update. All seems to be going well. Bit of algae that seems to be getting under control. Also ramshorns climbing in their bowl, training to help with the algae 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jawjagrrl Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Did you ever ask any fish? I just saw this same tank used on FB and was curious about what viewing would be like through the curved front. This looks great! I have shrimp breeding happily in a tank with a few male endlers. Given the number of juvies I have as well as scuds, the endlers aren't an issue (I read females might eat shrimplets since they are larger). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 1/21/2022 at 10:43 PM, Jawjagrrl said: Did you ever ask any fish? I just saw this same tank used on FB and was curious about what viewing would be like through the curved front. This looks great! I have shrimp breeding happily in a tank with a few male endlers. Given the number of juvies I have as well as scuds, the endlers aren't an issue (I read females might eat shrimplets since they are larger). I haven't added any fish yet, but I'm considering doing something similar. My lfs had some eye catching white moscow guppies, but I wasn't ready to get anything at the time. Do your males get along? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jawjagrrl Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 1/22/2022 at 11:29 AM, Solstice_Lacer said: Do your males get along? I've got 4 males in a 2.5 shrimp tank/factory. There is some chasing, but they generally all just hang out together. Even though the tank is very small, it's heavily planted with lots of little retreats, so I've had zero issues. They've been super healthy active and add a lot of visual interest without bothering the shrimp at all. Given the number of shrimplets I'm seeing since adding shrimp in October, I'd say very few are being eaten if any. I'm actually considering finding females of one type and putting them in a different tank as a little colony, but we can't decide which of the males we most want more of - the assorted males from AH had a lot of variety. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 Adjusted lights on both tanks today to see if that helps algae. Also have baby ramshorns that will be transferred soon hopefully. Otherwise looking ok. Lotus has seemingly stopped trying to race to the surface and is sending out some lower leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 My lotus seems to be going into hibernation (or just dying) but the acrylic is cleaner at least. And shrimps are all over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 Haven't updated this tank in a while. I moved my sword plants forward a bit. They are doing ok but not amazing. The hornwort on the other hand is a full on jungle, which the shrimp seem to enjoy. I also like the feature "tree" I made with anubius and moss growing on it. I need to actually try selling some shrimp soon. They seem to be breeding well in here. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted June 23, 2022 Author Share Posted June 23, 2022 A rare appearance from Shelly the assassin snail 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted June 25, 2022 Author Share Posted June 25, 2022 Replaced one of the Amazon swords with a stick I had from the other tank. The shrimp approve. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac M Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 The aquarium is looking great! The shrimp definitely appreciate all the biofilm on that driftwood haha some of that moss you have there would look awesome on that driftwood as well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 Full tank shot update. Everything doing pretty well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted July 12, 2022 Author Share Posted July 12, 2022 It seems some sort of balance has been achieved in the eternal war between Shelly the assassin and the tiny ramshorns. Shelly keeps trucking, and I occasionally still see some little snails, but never a ton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 Shrimp top to bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SugarBassJoe Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Great looking tank, very clean and natural looking, like you said, i know how difficult this style can be to work with. Very impressed with your healthy shrimp population, I'm still relatively new to inverts, and have yet reached that level. Question for you, your assassin snail seems to leave your shrimp alone, but do you know if they would take out trumpet snails? Id like to keep my pond snails in check, but keep my trumpet snail population healthy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solstice_Lacer Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) On 7/19/2022 at 9:56 AM, Joey1991 said: Great looking tank, very clean and natural looking, like you said, i know how difficult this style can be to work with. Very impressed with your healthy shrimp population, I'm still relatively new to inverts, and have yet reached that level. Question for you, your assassin snail seems to leave your shrimp alone, but do you know if they would take out trumpet snails? Id like to keep my pond snails in check, but keep my trumpet snail population healthy. I've never had trumpet snails so I couldn't say. From what I understand they breed a lot but mostly stay under the substrate. Assassins also dig from time to time but Idk if they're as good as trumpets at digging. Also I think trumpet snails get a little bigger. And again from what I've read but not experienced, assassins tend to go after small snails unless there are several of them to team up on a big one. So if you got one assassin, it would probably stay busy with pest snails rather than try to go for trumpets. That's just my un tested theory though, I would get more opinions before doing it. Edited July 19, 2022 by Solstice_Lacer Grammar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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