Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 6/13/2023 at 10:15 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

Oh they'll be there.  I've got em all.  The only one I do not know is hydra.

They are ok with the Prazi-Pro?

[nabokovfan87]

On 6/14/2023 at 2:11 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

They are ok with the Prazi-Pro?

My tanks went through paracleanse, expel-p, prazi, and a lot of salt. Everything on your list stuck around.

The shrimp, I haven't treated for anything yet. (Knock on wood) Amanos have been through it all.

Edited June 14, 2023 by nabokovfan87

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 6/14/2023 at 5:41 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

My tanks went through paracleanse, expel-p, prazi, and a lot of salt. Everything on your list stuck around.

The shrimp, I haven't treated for anything yet. (Knock on wood) Amanos have been through it all.

Prazi-Pro says “extremely safe” on the label.

On 6/14/2023 at 5:41 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

Amanos have been through it all.

How comes we haven’t had an amano photo lately?

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Despite everything we have new shrimplets. Definitely more than when treatment was started.

I removed the carbon and cleaned the sponge filter from the wild tank. Going through the water changes today, and treatment will begin tomorrow.

 

This got a little goofed up when I had the contaminant situation and had to add carbon, but now we are back on track. The free calendars that show up in the junk mail have a use after all.

Ignore the unhighlighted line.

Just revised it to add shrimp lolly the day before water changes for each tank. Best to do it then because they tend to be messy.

Edited June 14, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Lennie]

On 6/14/2023 at 1:34 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

 

 

so tiny 😄

adorable

[Lennie]

On 6/14/2023 at 4:01 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Did you see the little one next to the shrimp house? Omg 🥰

it is amazing how blue they are even when they are that smoll

you made me like blues 🙂

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 6/14/2023 at 9:08 AM, Lennie said:

it is amazing how blue they are even when they are that smoll

A lot of them are clear also. Hard to get photos of those.

On 6/14/2023 at 5:41 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

My tanks went through paracleanse, expel-p, prazi, and a lot of salt. Everything on your list stuck around.

Did you notice plant die-off at all when you did Prazi?  (not sure if you did salt at the same time)  I pulled the nice plants out temporarily.

Edited June 14, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[nabokovfan87]

On 6/14/2023 at 2:47 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

How comes we haven’t had an amano photo lately?

Because they are the band you have to see live! I did post a GA video with a breathtaking amano shrimp!

On 6/14/2023 at 6:09 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Did you notice plant die-off at all when you did Prazi?  (not sure if you did salt at the same time)  I pulled the nice plants out temporarily.

I did on round two of salt. Especially the higher dose. There are certain plants that were very unhappy if I looked at them wrong. The DHG had severe issues with salt.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 6/14/2023 at 12:43 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

I did post a GA video with a breathtaking amano shrimp!

I know, I watched it.  It was very calming.

I asked Torrey about plants. They said they do ok with Prazi-Pro but they should be taken out because they will drink up some of that medication. I have just a sprig or two in there for the time being.

Edited June 14, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[nabokovfan87]

It makes sense. My plants go through it all with me. Especially when you're talking a densely planted tank (not just moss or hardscape). I feel like it does too much damage to remove everything.

Great information though and very likely a good idea.  There's a lot of "simple" plants that can be very sensitive due to the cell structure.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 6/14/2023 at 1:16 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

I feel like it does too much damage to remove everything.

I had to because I need to be able to easily see and find all the molts.

[nabokovfan87]

On 6/14/2023 at 10:18 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

I had to because I need to be able to easily see and find all the molts.

Yeah, I totally understand that. 😕 I'm sorry for all the added stress and effort you're having to go through. Get better little shrimps.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 6/14/2023 at 1:27 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

Yeah, I totally understand that. 😕 I'm sorry for all the added stress and effort you're having to go through. Get better little shrimps.

Thanks, it's actually not bad once the meds are in. Molt removal is super quick with the turkey baster.  I do pick up the sponge filter to look around it for molts, and the shrimps love to run under it before i put it back down. 🙄  So I push water out at them with the baster to shoo them. LOL

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

OK. Wild tank is now medicated. Torrey said I could do a 50% water change and drip in replacement water and add the meds. Doing that big of a water change should trigger a bunch of molting, and thus, the treatment time can be reduced.  I will check the tank later to see.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

That worked, to an extent. At first I thought I got one or two molts. Then I noticed a lot of molts floating in the corner. I ended up with 9 or 10 total. There are 30+ shrimp in the tank, so we must stay the course. We cannot shorten treatment. That was a great head start though and likely cleared a ton of the scutariella japonica parasite/eggs out.

Edited June 16, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Treatment 1 for blue tank concluded one day short. Why? The importance of being home the day a treatment first goes in has been stressed, as all the molts on that day need to come out ASAP. That day will have the most molts and hence, the most parasite eggs, so I need to do my best to ensure those are not consumed, thus repeating the life cycle. So treatment 2 starts tomorrow ☹️, because I will not be home Sunday (Father’s Day).  I verified this is ok because this particular medicine is considered mild on them.

So the plants and wood went back in as they rest. They are sooo excited about all of this. And they got a nettle lolly. 🙂 I will run carbon this afternoon; the tank is still filling right now. The water changes are 50%, dripped in.

 

Edited June 16, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Oh, got the results back from 3rd cpa exam. Passed! That’s 3/4 tests down!

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

 

 

Edited June 16, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Today is regular tank maintenance for the 29g community tank. Finally. Something easy and relaxing. It really need it too after my shrimp hunt last week to catch all the wilds. All those little piles of mulm. So, trim some plants, etc.  Toss the sponges in the bucket. Ok, let’s start the siphon. Look in bucket: flop flop flop.. (????) oh jeez… shrimplet!  Found a few more in the bucket after the water change. Maybe 4-5 total. NOT newborn ones. Elusive shrimplets somehow evaded all the fish and I guess were living in sponges. Sigh... turned into a shrimplet hunt in 3 mulm buckets, as I was using extra buckets to clean sponges… 

I’m getting burned out… 😔

Edited June 16, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[nabokovfan87]

On 6/16/2023 at 4:11 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Oh, got the results back from 3rd cpa exam. Passed! That’s 3/4 tests down!

Congratulations!  Here is a happy shark to celebrate. 😂

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

 

[nabokovfan87]

I need a scared emoji.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Some of the collection from today. This is my life now. 😬 I tried to look with macro lens for eggs in the molts, but I couldn’t see any. Might be too small or these shrimp may not have been hosts.

And I found a snail JUST LIKE NIBBLES in the tank! 
 

Um.. Chick?  That is Nibbles. He hitched a ride when you put plants back in. 
 

…oh.

Anyway, he’s just fine. I had done a 50% water change and have been running carbon. He got put back in his bucket though. Also some MTS came up today. I think they know the water has been changed and there are way less meds. One is really beautiful.

 

OMG she’s trying to dig! 

Placed in QT bucket so she’s nice and safe during next treatment. I found a few other babies but too small to handle/move.

[nabokovfan87]

It's really cool that microscopes are so easily for people to get their hands on now.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 6/16/2023 at 6:45 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

It's really cool that microscopes are so easily for people to get their hands on now.

I’ve been afraid to go down that rabbit hole. Worried I’d become too interested. Maybe after exams.