Jon & Michelle's Fish Room Build

[Hobbit]

Nice setup for the eggs! Fingers crossed!

[Struggle]

We had a about 20 or so eggs hatch due to a bad fungus. I’ll be using methylene blue on the next batch and watching more closely for the white eggs.

The devil shrimp won this round, no matter how much Cupramine and Copper Sulfate Pentahydrate  I put in they survived through it. I ended up doing a large water change, added Cuprisorb and Seachem Zeolite to start trying to remove whatever copper leaches out from whoever it went. Looks like manual removal from here on out. 
 

 

[Hobbit]

Those shrimp are terrifying. Bummer about the eggs, but hopefully the methylene blue is all you need to fix it for next time.

[Beardedbillygoat1975]

They look like Caridina gracilirostris. They are supposed to be gentle but are known as being great algae eaters in a brackish systems. 

[Struggle]

On 2/14/2022 at 1:09 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said:

They look like Caridina gracilirostris. They are supposed to be gentle but are known as being great algae eaters in a brackish systems. 

The ones we have are about 3” to 4” now but we do have one that has stayed small which may be the Pinocchio shrimp. I’m pretty sure we have freshwater prawn or otherwise known as the oblivious to copper, eat anything that stays still for a minute, 😈shrimp. 
 

[Torrey]

On 2/14/2022 at 6:35 PM, Struggle said:

The ones we have are about 3” to 4” now but we do have one that has stayed small which may be the Pinocchio shrimp. I’m pretty sure we have freshwater prawn or otherwise known as the oblivious to copper, eat anything that stays still for a minute, 😈shrimp. 
 

You could always put them up in the FB group for your local fish club. I'm positive someone would even pay you for bomb proof shrimp

[Struggle]

On 2/14/2022 at 7:51 PM, Torrey said:

You could always put them up in the FB group for your local fish club. I'm positive someone would even pay you for bomb proof shrimp

I’d be more than happy to do that, just have to catch them first. 

[Torrey]

On 2/14/2022 at 7:03 PM, Struggle said:

I’d be more than happy to do that, just have to catch them first. 

Have you baited a bottle trap for them?

Clear plastic bottle, a tube of plastic canvas craft stuck in the mouth of the bottle until it is 2/3 into the bottle.

Set the trap shortly before lights out, and skip feeding dinner.

Shrimp should go in to eat whatever frozen meaty food (frozen krill, bloodworms, bbs, essentially any frozen cube of meaty fish food) shortly after the lights go out. 

 

[Struggle]

On 2/14/2022 at 10:39 PM, Torrey said:

Have you baited a bottle trap for them?

Clear plastic bottle, a tube of plastic canvas craft stuck in the mouth of the bottle until it is 2/3 into the bottle.

Set the trap shortly before lights out, and skip feeding dinner.

Shrimp should go in to eat whatever frozen meaty food (frozen krill, bloodworms, bbs, essentially any frozen cube of meaty fish food) shortly after the lights go out. 

 

We’ve tried that and we were able to catch some of them along with a lot of fish. We’ll give it another try over the next few days. 

[Torrey]

On 2/15/2022 at 10:53 AM, Struggle said:

We’ve tried that and we were able to catch some of them along with a lot of fish. We’ll give it another try over the next few days. 

"Along with a lot of fish" of course you caught a lot of fish, that's what you *didn't* want in the trap. Had you been trying to catch the fish, and not the shrimp, there would have been zero fish and all the shrimp. 🤪

I wonder if reverse psychology would work 🤔

[Struggle]

We have a few free swimmers and another pair spawned, may have to pull them nd give them their own tank. We’re going to go the meth. blue route on these and see what the difference is.

[Hobbit]

😍 So cute! Fingers crossed for your eggs!

[Struggle]

All the eggs that we pulled and put in the meth blue don’t look viable, they may not of been fertilized but we’ll try again. 
 

Took some photos of our shrimp this morning.

 

[Torrey]

On 2/20/2022 at 10:15 AM, Struggle said:

All the eggs that we pulled and put in the meth blue don’t look viable, they may not of been fertilized but we’ll try again. 
 

Took some photos of our shrimp this morning.

 

ORD😍

[Struggle]

The 20T angels laid eggs again and we decided to try pulling them, putting them in 6 tds water with (10) drops of meth blue, 5 drops of mal green and the slate flipped over so the air bubbles directly hit / wash over the eggs. We’ll see what happens this go around. 

[Struggle]

The meth blue, mal green and low tds water worked well this go around. We probably had a dozen or so white eggs and no fungus this go around. The eggs are starting to hatch and turn into wigglers, yay!

 

The fry from the previous spawn look to be coming along nicely and are starting show some color even though they are still very small. 

Edited February 25, 2022 by Struggle

[Struggle]

We have a bunch wigglers and the Green Dragon came out to say hi!

[Hobbit]

@Struggle I showed my husband the picture of your pleco and he says, “Whaaat is that?? We have a name for that… Cthulhu.”

[Guppysnail]

On 2/26/2022 at 10:06 AM, Struggle said:

We have a bunch wigglers and the Green Dragon came out to say hi!

Oh my goodness he is STUNNING!  All I can think of now is him in with one of my long fin lemon blue eyes and a total yin/yang 😍😍😍😍

[Struggle]

We’re still struggling with the freshwater prawns but I think we may of caught the last one, FINALLY. We have completely ripped our 180G apart to get them out. We’re looking forward to getting the tank reset and planted again. 

[Struggle]

I would like to brag on Michelle a bit as she placed with 4 of the 5 groups of her Caridina shrimp she sent in for the The American Shrimp Contest. She’s been working hard on these and I couldn’t be happier for her. Please don’t hold the poor photos against me,  as I have no knack for this and just point and click. 

[Struggle]

We decided to make the top row of 10s shrimp tanks and also had a surprise from our cory cats.

[Aguinaga]

With time passed now, how is the unistrut working? Really like the idea of that and seems like water weight doesn’t have much effect on it. I just got the piston air pump from aquarium co-op and working with different ideas. I really like your rack system, not having to worry about uneven boards, and being able to make adjustments in place. 

[Struggle]

On 10/29/2023 at 1:42 PM, Aguinaga said:

With time passed now, how is the unistrut working? Really like the idea of that and seems like water weight doesn’t have much effect on it. I just got the piston air pump from aquarium co-op and working with different ideas. I really like your rack system, not having to worry about uneven boards, and being able to make adjustments in place. 

Apologies for the late response, the unistrut has worked out great and we will either use it or some aluminum type of material that I've seen some saltwater hobbyist using.