Hello Board and Most Importantly, Susan
Cliff called last night with lots of big news about his life. Most specifically, his company is being sued into oblivion as of Friday AND he and his wife found out yesterday they are pregnant. He has bowed out from Tuesday because he will be in legal deposition.
Susan, I know you to be a very solid fish and shrimp keeper. You had voiced some interest in helping share the knowledge you have accumulated. Would you be willing to jump back in and cover the section of information that Cliff was doing?
He was going to talk about water parameters, feeding and breeding.
· Each speaker has a 5-10 slide talk to introduce a topic
o Intro to shrimp (Cliff)
§ Requirements (temp, pH, hardness, min tank size…)
§ Feeding
§ Breeding
o Setting up a shrimp tank (Shango)
§ Picture of a shrimp tank that shows relevant parts like substrate, role of cover, airstone?
-Plants they like
-Healthy and unhealthy behavior signs
-tricks of the trade, etc
o Common Shrimp types (Jimmy)
-Varieties of common shrimp, where they come from, how the colors were isolated.
-Shrimp you cannot keep together and why
-Which are beginner versus advanced
-Things to look for in advanced shrimp
-The newest breeds, things we are just leaning about
§ these are the shrimp Jimmy brought.
If this is something you are willing to help out with with such short notice, please let me know. When you have gathered your photos, please email to me in numbered order for the CD I am putting together for the overhead projector.
You do not have to feel any pressure. While water chemistry is not a field I have any experience with, I will bone up and learn by Tuesday if I need to and do Cliff's part myself. You are such an obvious solid choice.
Thanks for considering it.
Warmly,
Shango