AquaticEngineer

Picked up a bucket full of shrimp from some friends the other day Filled with the red and white striped guys and the solid reds. The tank is filled with shrimp now! I love it Gonna set up a separate aquaeon 8 gallon as a small breeding tank for select colors.

Quick tank update: Looks like the shrimp have thinned themselves down a bit from the initial 20 I put in. Only counted 7 visible at any one time (I'm sure I missed a few) but I figured I may lose some of the smaller ones which was acceptable given the price. Plus side, now I have the repeshy shrimp food and the remaining shrimps are really coloring up nicely Should be picking up quite a few more red neos and the white/red neos from a friend first weekend of june. Played around with the flow a little bit and made a pair of directional nozzles using some 1/2 black vinyl tubing and my heat gun. I had noticed that the flow was fast, but it wasn't moving the surface of the water much and I had started getting some film on the top. Nozzles took care of that and now I have a nice dual counter current gyre flow that pulls from the surface down. Java moss is starting to creep up and attach to the spray foam rock walls on both ends and the chain swords are all showing new growth in the middle, though the outer leaves are slowly dying off (kind of assumed they would). Cardinal tetras are great in the tank and seem to love the flow, they school constantly in it and dart to the surface for any food that doesn't get pulled down in the gyres.

Well I ended up passing on the celestial pearl danios I found, just too skinny and skittish. Opted for a school of Cardinal Neons for the time being, I know this will limit my shrimp breeding but was curious if anyone else has breeding groups with neons?

I've had all kinds of stuff in it, Australian Boxfish, Splendid Seaperch (anthias spp) from Portugal, even imported Weedy Seadragons when I was still selling stuff. Right now I have a school of Shiner Perch, 1 Blacksmith Chromis from the water off of Catalina Island, a Blackeye Goby, and a few native sculpins. Going out in June for some really cool stuff like Grunt Sculpins

Yeah I dive a little with a surface fed system(aka hookah) but mostly just snorkel and tidepool collect my stuff. I've kept lots of weird crabs over the years, strangest is probably the box crab species or one called a rhinoceros crab.

I changed the rock formation recently and removed the waterfall, so its growing back in now with algae and Im going collecting in June to re stock it. Here is a more recent pic, not up to par yet, but getting there. Still need to install the ceiling mounted spot lights so there is an unobstructed view from the top.

Tank below it is a 140 gallon coldwater marine aquarium with livestock I've collected from the Oregon coast. I recently brought in 5 Red Rock Shrimp from California for it Tank rus at 57F and is plumbed out into my garage with a 150 gallon sump and an 8 tank holding system. Here's a couple of my favorite pics from when it was well stocked with anemones.

Yeah potentially, but there should be enough coverage down in the chain swords to save most of them and the fish only max out 3/4 to 7/8th on an inch.

Yeah its just shy of 4" total tank depth. The tank brand is called "Aqua Bella". I modified mine quite a bit. Stripped the background off and painted it black instead of the stupid saltwater background, did a spray foam rock texture on the both ends to hide the intake/return from the filter. Swapped the pumps out for more flow, removed the heater altogether, added a pair of 20w LED strip lights into the stock hood and removed the fluorescents, and then rewired it all again. The shrimp seem to love it so far All up and down the back of the tank. Looking at getting a school of Celestial Pearl Danios for the tank also.

It's mounted on the wall on a pair of large metal L brackets, light on top flips up for tank access. I mostly do everything with grabber tongs in it.

Picked up 20 mixed neos and a bucket full of plants today for $25. Just finished planting what i wanted to keep and acclimating the shrimp. Not too shabby

The 20 Shrimps I'm getting are mixed up together, there are some green , blue rili , red cherry , red rili, and a bunch of mixed plants. Should be a good start though for $25 We'll have to swap some

Picking them up later tonight, found them from an ad on CL. I will let you know what I come up with

Thought I'd bump your post since I'm in Oregon We chatted a bit in another thread also. I'm picking up a mix of neos tonight and I'm sure I will have a few to spare if you wanted to get any. Let me know, we gotta get that Portland shrimp club going

For the shrimp, get yourself a large fishing net designed for catch and release (small soft mesh netting) and you'll have not problem getting them I use one made for salmon, so its a pretty hefty net and it only takes me a couple passes with it to grab a bunch. For the gobies, you may want to use a pair of hand nets since they seemed to see the large net coming and just dart out of the way. I eventually caught mine using a snorkel and spooking them into one net using the other to corral them.