My friend Felix had asked me a favor which he disguise it as a "along the way" kind of thingy haha...to set up his small shrimp tank.
This is a very plain set up since not much space is available with some of the hair grass cannibalized from my main planted tank.
The water is from my cycled tank but not sure if the water will have any effect on new soil & tank.
I do hope they can get used to it soon or I had to put them back into the crowded main tank.
Felix...you own me a meal on this!!
This is my little Cherry shrimp experiment!!
Primary objective is to test these Cherry shrimps' intelligence by allowing them to find the entrance to this crystal box filled with food inside!!
This is not an easy task for animals with stupid minds...to do the obvious!
The shrimps are apparently pretty smart!
I am taking some photos for the previous experiment for getting rid of BBA but realize there are more beautiful scene in my shrimp tank...like the ones below!
I had bought 1 month back about 20 cherry shrimps from local fish shops at Clementi (C238).
I done the following.
- Transferred some "cycled" water from the other fish tank into a new tank.
- Put in new water + few drops of "de-chlorine" solution
- Put in 2 bags of blackish blue stones (look light blue when in water)
- Put in 2 sponge air bubble filter (shrimp friendly)
- Put in the Cherry Shrimps (Very hardy for this species)
- Put some Taiwan Moss or ferns in
- Put a 55 Watt lights on top
- Put a overhead fan and on it 24/7
- Put a digital aquarium thermometer inside and make it below 29 degree Celsius
- Feed the cherry shrimps with "Japanese" label food found in C238 twice a day
- If found moldy food, fish it out.
- Wait for them to breed!!!
This is what I have right now!
This is a video introduction to my humble newbie shrimp tank! Hope you like it!!
The video is fresh from the oven and hope youtube can show it clearly. I caught my shrimp giving birth in the breeding tank yesterday night (early morning) and captured the kodak moment with my PsP camera armed together with a magnifying glass.
I am so proud of my cherry red shrimps!! They are fast breeders!! I have a total of 6 pregnant shrimps in the breeding tank and all are giving me shrimp babies!!
Hopefully all of them can survive long enough to grow up...they had a rough start when I found 4 shrimp babies trapped in my air bubble filter!! I rushed to clementi fish shop and bought the breeder tank and rushed back to rescue these baby shrimps from my bubble filter medium and put them securely in the breeding tank!!
Now, I am a happy owner of 40+++ baby cherry red shrimps!! yay!!
