Thought I had lost all of the CRS from the first batch. Added water to the 1 g tank this afternoon and thought the water looked dusty. The dust specks moved - they are baby shrimp!
How do you clean a tank with baby shrimp?
I am considering just topping off the water. Another idea, pour it all into a larger tank and add more water. This could go on indefinitely.
Thanks to all who encouraged me to stick with the CRS. This is fun!
CRS is Crystal Red Shrimp, a much more expensive, and sensitive, shrimp species.
I hadn't done a water change in my 2.5g nano in I don't know how long - months. I just did do a major water change last week, as I rescaped it, and I'm sure I sucked lots of babies ot their doom...
I typically just top it off, and rarely feed the shrimp in it. They live off the algae and the micro things that grow in the plants. I might drop a 1/4 of a sinking wafer in there once a week, for 1/2 dozen shrimp or so.
For my larger tanks, I stir up the substrate by hand, and then pull detritus from the water column.
CRS is Crystal Red Shrimp, a much more expensive, and sensitive, shrimp species.
I hadn't done a water change in my 2.5g nano in I don't know how long - months. I just did do a major water change last week, as I rescaped it, and I'm sure I sucked lots of babies ot their doom...
I typically just top it off, and rarely feed the shrimp in it. They live off the algae and the micro things that grow in the plants. I might drop a 1/4 of a sinking wafer in there once a week, for 1/2 dozen shrimp or so.
For my larger tanks, I stir up the substrate by hand, and then pull detritus from the water column.
Thanks, Dave. I didn't realize their was another red shrimp.
More $$$$ and more sensitive... not the critters for me..yet.
You must have to swish the stuff around quite a bit to dislodge any RCS babies. They truly are the size of specks of dust.
One trick you can do if you want to avoid sucking up baby shrimp is to put a nylon stocking on the end of the syphon tube. The water still comes in, but the babies can't.
I use the small fine FilterMax (maybe FMII?) over the end of the Python on all the shrimp tanks. No vacuuming, but the shrimp tanks tend to a very thin layer of substrate anyway.
Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:Are you sure they're baby shrimp? cherry red babies are almost exact
replicas of adults - just smaller - 1mm-2mm in size or so when just hatched.
thats what I was thinking.
Relative to the shrimp the eggs are pretty damn large.
The other Jeff
Master of growing algae and getting better at plants
