Re: [GSAS-Member] Looking forward to get my red cherry shrimp and killer snails tomorrow from Cliff.

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

I've had a red cherry tank going here at work for 2-3 years now with
reproduction. It's just a 2.5 - 3 gal tank with no heat or filtration.
Fine gravel substrate (~ 1") and a couple lava rocks. Java fern, java
moss, rotala and hornwort cuttings and some Pistia on top. Compact
fluorescent light. A couple teeny crypt bits from another tank. I rarely
see babies right now since the front algae bloom subsided. I'm seeing
fewer small shrimp over the past year as well so not sure what it up
there. I feed flake regularly and Crab Cuisine a couple times per week. I
do water changes when mulm accumulates and becomes noticable...probably at
least once per month. I just did a dip stick test strip: pH on the low
side (~ 6.4), KH ~ 80, GH ~ 50, no nitrites, nitrates 0-20. I usually drop
a bit of cuttlebone in there but I see it's disappeared. Time for more
cuttlebone. There are probably 40-50 shrimp in there. I've moved shrimp
regularly from this tank to other tanks to keep the population under
control.

Betty Goetz

> Hey Cliff,
>
> Since you have had such success with your shrimp, would you be willing to
> say a bit more on the tank conditions, feeding, etc that works for you??
> I
> am very curious, and hope to keep the ones that have survived the month
> since the last meeting happy and healthy...
>
> So heavy plants helps, what else?  Little maintenance can mean so many
> things!  I have been feeding mine the standard flake food almost daily,
> which they seem to eat, and that seems to be working so far.
>
> Any words of wisdom you care to share, or that anyone else successfully
> keeping these guys wants to add, would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks!
> Connie
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Clifford Miller" <clifford@clevergeek.com>
> A note regarding the plants that are in with the shrimp, I don't do much
> maintenance in my shrimp tanks (which usually have very thick growth to
> encourage the shrimp to breed)--
>
>
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