stankyleg Posted September 2, 2018 Report Share Posted September 2, 2018 Hi Shrimp Folks! Background:I just received 3 young Blue Bolt Shrimp and have placed them in a 5gal mature, heavily planted & low tech tank. The tank did house fish until yesterday, but currently no other shrimp and no fish in this tank. There is zero (visible) algae on plants or on tank walls and no (visible) dead/dying plants. Question:Considering this, do you think I should be feeding by adding shrimp food? Note: The tank does have 1 small piece of almond leaf & a few alder cones. Thanks! Sent from my XT1635-01 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdvancedAquaculture Posted September 2, 2018 Report Share Posted September 2, 2018 Is that S. Repens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILikeAsianBooty Posted September 2, 2018 Report Share Posted September 2, 2018 Just throw in a piece of spinach in there atleast 2x a week and a protein treat 1x. stankyleg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikehawkrocs Posted September 2, 2018 Report Share Posted September 2, 2018 Youre putting blue bolts with inert substrate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stankyleg Posted September 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2018 Is that S. Repens?Yeya! My favorite plant so far. Stuff gets low light, minimal fert, and is in gravel and does great.I have it on a log with Christmas Moss too and they've done well together.Sent from my XT1635-01 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stankyleg Posted September 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2018 Youre putting blue bolts with inert substrate? Yeah it was a dumb thing to do. Focused too much on getting gh/KH & tds right and forgot about pH. Doing my research now on what I can do after the fact, hoping these blue beauties survive. Sent from my XT1635-01 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stankyleg Posted October 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Update: I managed to keep them alive even with a higher pH. When I dropped em in there pH was about 7.8, now it's about 7.3 with the help of fluval stratum topdress.I've been feeding a light mix of bacterAE, leafy greens, cucumber and once a tiny high protein pellet, and once a frozen bloodworm.They went insane for the bloodworm and I think it triggered a molt, or made 'em horny, or both. Or maybe it was just coincidence, but soon after the bloodworm the female disappeared and came back berried.Here is a pic. I'm not sure if the color of the eggs mean anything, but the eggs are very red.Sent from my XT1635-01 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy6107 Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 seem to be on the lucky side keeping the BB's alive with the inert style substrate. If you got a berried female, then here's to hoping that you will have lots of the babies survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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