TheGardenofEder Posted February 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 My krib chiclid tank. There's a Madagascar lace plant I got from han. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Today I'll share my crayfish alleni project. The first pic is of one if my baby grow out tanks, I throw my berried female in there(in the second picture is my current berried female) once the eggs hatch I put her back into her bare bottom 10g tank with a little bit of crushed oystershell and pvc for a hide And a divider I keep two in each ten. I have 1 white alleni and 6 blues. In the summer I breed tadpoles and feed them to my crays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 (edited) im thinking of crossing the blue and a white for a powdered blue cray Edited May 8, 2017 by TheGardenofEder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 After I posted that I looked into my diamond tank and fiund my first berried female. Hard to get a close up shot sry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Congrats! Are you going to keep the diamond tank a rainbow of colors, or are you going to pick one color to breed for? Also, what's your procedure for breeding alleni? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I'm going to do 5 tanks all together with the diamonds and chocates. I'm going to do a black blue diamond tank and a blue blue diamond tank. I'm going to do a brown chocolate tank and a black chocolate tank. the last tank will be the culls from the other 4 tanks. I keep my crays separate in 5g apartments. Once I have a clear breeder tank I select my brightest blue male and female and put them in a 20g with a bunch of hides for a day or two or once I see them in the act I'll wait till I see them separated after that then I remove the male back to his apartment. The berried female will then stay in that tank till the eggs hatch. Once the eggs hatch she goes back to her apartment. if the pair does not take and she doesn't show any eggs I'll select a different pair. This is what works for me. I'm trying a different method soon where the apartments I made for them in the ten gallons I have a male on one side and the female on the other. The diver is removable. Only thing is I don't like the lack of space so I haven't tryed. I feel my crays are safer together on a bigger space. So I will be doing this on a day off where I can observe very closely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Thanks for the tip. First try I did my fem alleni in a 3g, and dropped in the male. I walked away for a few minutes and when I returned she had killed the male. I have no idea how some people can do it with plastic shoe boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I'd imagine they watch them the whole time then once the act is over they just remove them back into separate tanks. While we're on the subject of crays here's a marble cray I got from^soothing. So I have 4 cpos now as well got one at a lps on v day. I have 7 alleni and 1 marble and that's it for my crays. I'll update once I build a cray rack. Currently all of my alleni are in my living room but they are going in my fish room when it's done. JamesHe and Soothing Shrimp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 She's berried up pretty well. JamesHe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHe Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 She's berried up pretty well. Can you use tap water directly to do water change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I don't use tap water any more but I use too had no problems just seen more suscess with ro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHe Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I don't use tap water any more but I use too had no problems just seen more suscess with ro I was asking if I can do water change with untreated tap water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 I always use declorifier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHe Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I always use declorifier I read this from Marbled Crayfish site: But otherwise, they are not picky about PH, they do just fine in water straight from the tap. “Conditioning water” for days like is done in a tropical fishtank, is a complete waste of time. Just wonder if that's true or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 As long as you take the chlorine out the tap water is fine. That's all I do usually but I recently got a bunch of remin and I'm seeing if it's going to make a difference in color Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHe Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 As long as you take the chlorine out the tap water is fine. That's all I do usually but I recently got a bunch of remin and I'm seeing if it's going to make a difference in color But my understanding of that statement, you don't need treat the water at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Well I wouldn't risk it chlorine kills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterBugg Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Sounds like they ment you don't have to wait days after treating I've heard 5 mins is ok but I still wait just in case for like an hr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I've got a lot of new and exciting projects coming along and one I'm about to get started on is a a little over flow water fall pond. I'm going to have this pond behind my tikki bar and want it to go with the tropical style the rest of my back yard has. I found an old John boat propped it up on a cynder block. I'm then going to put rock around the base hiding the cynder blocks and making it look nice. The boat has three sections already in it, I'm going to line each section with liner and turn two of them into small 80g or so ponds and one grow bed. Here's the fish for those ponds The first two pics are of my fancy guppy tank. These will go in the bottom of the boat pond. Also in that tank I have some skunk and peppered cpry cats waiting for their racks to be built as well As the two female beta fish waiting for their rack to be built. Next picture is my molly tank. These will go in the top of the boat. Also in that tank I have one of my blue crays waiting for his rack to be built as well. The mollys and the guppys will be food for my snapper turtle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I'm also in the process of putting a bell syphon in the grow bed of another one of my ponds. I'll show pictures in the spring when it's finished. Currently it has 100 koi or so in the top 1000g tank, a 2 ft pleco and 1 ft pleco and two 1 ft cat fish. Then that flows into my grow bed roughly 300g(it was just a flow bed but I'm in the process of adding a bell syphon) I have mint, sage, kale, cabage, and some angle trumpets in the grow bed. Then that flows into another 1000g tank where I grow my tropical lilly and some cherry shrimp. However this year I'm going to add platys into the bottom tank. These are my platys and their fry. Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Put some plants into my cycling tb tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 This is my 55g African chiclid tank. I have 6 3 inch to 4 inch chiclids, a nice size algee eater, a molly, and a pleco. Also there some pics of one my red cherrys I've been trying to selective breed. I got one berried don't know where she went but she's my darkest And largest. Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Here's a picture for those who entered to win my roak and want the axolotls instead of the other packages or maybe just one axolotl. Here's my juvinile albino axolotl in a ten gallon tank with play sand and large rocks for him to hide under. The plant is pothos. Soothing Shrimp and Shrimpsicle 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 A picture of a new cpo I got the other day. He's going in with my other 3 in the 30g as well as some pumpkin shrimp in the future. aquariumlover10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquariumlover10 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Pic didn't show up, but cpos and pumpkin shrimp, do you like orange? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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