DevinB Posted April 22, 2017 Report Share Posted April 22, 2017 I am currently 24 days into cycling my first taiwan bee tank and figured I would start a journal now as I should soon have water params. stabilized and be able to get my livestock. So heres what progress I have so far. Started with a 10 gallon tank with an hob filter with sponge prefilter that I had running barebottom with some moss and java fern for approx. 6 months breeding out my red cherry shrimp colony before they moved to their final home. March 29th I added ada amazonia to the tank and have been re-cycling it/letting ammonia leach. I also planted 2 baby crypt wendtii, one green, one bronze and some rotala indica cuttings from another tank, and some salvinia to float around. Since that time I have added 3 medium sized indian almond leaves and 3 4 inch long pieces of cholla wood Other things I have acquired that will pertain to this tank are. RO Buddie 50 gpd unit Glasgarten liquid mineral gh+ Glasgarten snow flake Glasgarten maulbeere Shirakura shrimp ball food The plan for shrimp so far is to get 8-10 bkk/ black pandas And either 8-10 wr pandas or blue bolts. Any opinions on which shrimp I should get for sure, or any other products I should get before/after I order my shrimp would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted May 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2017 Update: Sorry, I've been busy with work picking up with the weather (I make supplies for construction companies, so this is my busiest season) but have updated this tank alot. This is my current set up. Topfin 10 hob filter/ sponge prefilter that has cycled with this tank for 8+ months. New: sunsun 603b canister filter with sponge pre filter/3 stage sponges/purigen/matted poly filters inside. New: 11 inch nicrew led light system. Updated from 50 to 75 watt heater with added water flow. I changed plants around, now have. Flame moss on cholla wood 1 bronze crypt wendtii 7 sprigs of rotalla indica 5 sprigs of moneywort 1 indian almond leave Livestock: 5 red panda/ red king kong (flip aquatics) 5 black panda/ black king kong (flip aquatics) 5 tiger shrimp (alpha pro, 3 black/blue dominant stripes, 2 red dominant stripes.) I have 2 more 10 gallon tanks to set up once breeding starts to occur to split up the blacks/ reds/ tibee and tigers. Mts.. Not at all.. Front and top views. Need reccomendations on a good camera for shrimp pics, that can do stills and videos zoomed in on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted May 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2017 You can see a few of the reds on the hob pre filter, but I'd like to get a good camera because the stock I received from flip aquatics are absolutely beautiful up close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted May 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2017 Tried to get some good pics while they were out feasting on some snowflake Shrimporama 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royboy808 Posted July 9, 2017 Report Share Posted July 9, 2017 Any updates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted July 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 Moved plants around and added 2 pieces of driftwood with bucephalandra. Shrimp are all still doing well, I have one random baby and 2 berried females right now. Shrimporama 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted July 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 The buce is new in tank and needs more time to grow in some, you can see the eggs slightly on the black panda. My phones camera is terrible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted August 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 Found 2 babies that are all blue but are way too small to get pictures of. Cant tell if they are going to be high.grade BB or shadow panda yet =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted August 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 I counted 23 babies today.. 1 red head section and mostly white tail section, 15 varying bkk/ panda and 7 blue bolts the red is about a week older than the rest. The bkk/panda and bb are all from the panda mama in previous pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted August 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 Also have a second 10 gallon now fully cycled to put all high grade reds in and a 36 bowfront currently cycling to move the main colony into once they breed out. And will use this ten gallon for the high grade bkk and blue bolts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted September 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 My first and favorite shrimp baby is finally big enough for a good pic although still a shotty camera. In person the colored areas are wine red with black/darker red streaks throughout. It's absolutely stunning Shrimporama 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santos aluiso Posted October 3, 2017 Report Share Posted October 3, 2017 what's your tds gh and kh? i have had a tank for over 2 months butt taiwan bees haven't breed and i started adding some crystal reds and all of them died. i want to know if i'm doing something wrong maybe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterBugg Posted October 4, 2017 Report Share Posted October 4, 2017 Very nice tank so far, you definitely have some beauties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted February 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 New favorite homebred shrimp, orange eye dark blue/black with a black king kong 2 stripe pattern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted May 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2018 Update: one of the orange eyes grown up, and a few white eyed juvies. Terrible pics as usual.. Shrimporama and wyzazz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevinB Posted June 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Got a few better pictures today of some shrimp. The red Tibee looks much better in person, I wish I could get her into the right light but she is berried and hides most of the time.. hopefully her babies will look a little nicer, I crossed her with the same male TB that gave me the white eyed pintos and black king kongs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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