Indestructible RCS!

ricoishere · Post by **ricoishere** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:14 am

This weekend, while preparing to do my weekly WC, I got a cool surprise . No, not a new tank as a gift. I lifted a bucket from inside another one I use to carry some items in, and I noticed something moving around in what might have been 2oz. of water that remained from the last WC last week. It was maybe ½” in size, dark, looked like a worm. I took the pail outside in the sunlight, and realized it was a Red Cherry Shrimp! This little critter lived in a covered pail, just enough water to cover it, in 90-100 deg temp in my garage for a week! I heard these things are durable, but this is pretty interesting. I put it in a 10G tank, and this morning saw it still kicking.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:36 am

I had a similar situation minus the 90-100 deg weather. Needless to say I was impressed as well.

Post by **krisw** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:43 pm

I've bred hundreds of these guys outside in my small pond during the summer months. They've survived low temperatures (40 degrees outside) in the fall too before I pulled them out.

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:04 pm

You cannot beat my story. Emptied out to 215G. Left it dry for 2 days. Rescaped, added water - first thing I see is a RCS swimming by. DAMNIT! DON"T THEY EVER DIE!

Post by **krisw** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:25 pm

Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:You cannot beat my story. Emptied out to 215G. Left it dry for 2 days. Rescaped, added water - first thing I see is a RCS swimming by. DAMNIT! DON"T THEY EVER DIE!

Yeah, I had the same thing happen with a platy once! (Still don't have any idea how that fish survived.)

ricoishere · Post by **ricoishere** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:28 pm

Yeah that is a hard one to beat!
What was the end result? I heard high CO2 helps to kill inverts in a tank (without fish).

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:47 pm

Tried it. Heck I have like 30 loaches in the tank and they havent been able to erradicate them yet. Gonna have to bleach it.

Post by **krisw** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:50 pm

You're not going to bleach Botia sidthimonkis are you?

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:52 pm

Bleach them all!! BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

No, dude - I'm kidding about the bleaching. But I do want to rescape the 215. Any volunteers?

ricoishere · Post by **ricoishere** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:54 pm

Do you think broad spectrum med with copper might help, like dosing Maracyn for a week?

Indestructible RCS!

Indestructible RCS!

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