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New Shrimp here today!


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Got my new shrimp today from The Shrimp Tank with Will.

They are very tiny, but healthy and doing fine, so far.

I love the way, that Will packs them. He does it right.

They are safe and sound when they get here, and I think

if the post office played kick ball with them, they would still

be okay. Stressed, by okay.   lol

 

 

They are tiny tiger shrimp and some CRS. They are mostly

all babies, which is fine with me, but wow, are they tiny.

I really worry about the stainless steel mesh intake. I worry

that the fry can still get sucked up by it, they just look so

microscopic, but so far, I have not found any in my filters,

Thank God!

 

I really can't believe the size of the babies. You know they are small,

but as a newbie to this arena, the reality of seeing just how tiny they

are, is amazing to me. Nothing like how I imagined them to be.

The are way, way, way..... smaller.   lol

 

So, now I have some CRS, CBS, and Tigers. All seem to be

doing fine.

 

I do get some small patches of green alge like material on the sponge?

My water quality is perfect. I test it everyday, so I have no idea where

this small patch of alge comes from. The moss and plants should be

taken care of it, along with the filters? There isn't much of it, but I

am surprised it is there.

 

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I was running out of shrimp so it was either not sell them at all till they got larger or sell them smaller but make sure people knew what they were getting :)

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They are all doing just fine. I love them, I don't know about anyone else, but

the shrimp you get from Will at The Shrimp Tank, are awesome!  And NO,

that is not an advertisement for him. Just my opinion.

 

And bostoneric, I keep my lights on for 9 hours, on daylight, 5 hours on the blue softer lighting,

and the rest of the time, the light is off at night. They are on timers this way.  The tanks are not

where the sun hits them at all, so I don't know where those small patches of green alge are coming

from. Plus there are these tiny, almost looks like the smallest thread you have ever seen coming

off the moss. Like a fishing line is in the water, only really, really thin fishing line that is white, clear.

Like a very long spider web, and only one long one coming up from the moss?

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it sounds kinda like what i got on my tank wall shortly after setting up my tank with amazonia. i scrubbed it off and it has not come back. not sure what caused it. i know i had high nitrite at the time cause of cycling.

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Good, because my water is pristine. Every parameter is line with where it is supposed to be.

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