Dead Shrimps...

I think one of my tank is having issue...

So far, within one week, I had about 5 shrimps death...

I do see shrimps eating well, active, pooping, few femals carry eggs, plants growing well and I see some baby shrimps... what is wrong with shrimps death?

I also even checked my water. Nitrite, nitrate, ammonia is all 0 and pH is 7.2.

I know pH should be 7.0 or lower but, I don't think 7.2 will kill shrimps because I have few shrimps that had 7.2-7.6 pH and they breed like crazy.

I don't have GH and KH test kit... so, I can't test them...

I don't want to reset this tank because it's only been setup for 3 months and I don't think there is anything wrong with this tank.

I do water change 10-15% every 2-3 weeks.

I hope I don't have any more shrimp death...

Fissiden Carpet

Fissiden Carpet, growing about 10 weeks~!

Bumble Bee and Tiger Shrimp

Filter boxes...

It's been about 4-5 years since I started my fish hobby... I didn't realize I bought this many filters... I do have sponge filters and others but, I didn't have room to take a picture... Today, two of Eheim Ecco 2232 came and I took a picture before moving these boxes to cabinet. I am using these filters for my shrimp tanks and some are not even opened... I still have two 10g tanks and 20g tank that need to be reclean ready to use these filters. I might move to new house next year and would use them with new setup. Most of them was bought on sale or clearance.

Wow! More Berried shrimps!

My blue bee shrimp is berried again!

S+ Grade

Finally! My S+ carrying eggs!

Shot of another female.

Eheim Ecco 2232 good deal!

I just have ordered two Eheim Ecco 2232 for $49 each from petsmart!!! They also had order with in $60 or more for $5.99 shipping!!! Now this is great deal. It looks like clearance and so many people are buying them. They may go out fast and sales will end soon.

Cherry with dark color?

My cherry have some dark color...

Not just this shrimp, few others have dark color as well...

10g and 7.9g tank...

This is 10g tank. I have setup with ADA substrate, Africana, two small sponge filters and Eheim Liberty 2040 hang on filter. I didn't need to root any plants so, I decided to put only 1-2 cm of soils. This been cycled about 6 weeks. Plants that are in this tank: java fern, fissidens, flame moss and round pellia. Round pellia have been tank for only 3 days and rest other plants are starting to grow nicely with DIY co2.

This is 7.9g tank, which is almost 8g... been setup for 2 weeks. The setup of this tank is Fluval Stratum substrate about 2 cm, very lightly Amazonia soils, Azoo big sponge filter and Eheim Liberty 2041 hang on filter. Plants in this tank are: java fern, round pellia and flame moss. Later on, I'm going to add little bit of fissidens. This tank also have DIY co2 running.

Berried Blue Pearl Shrimp!

Shrimp have been berried for 2 weeks now.

Orange shrimp?

One of my brown shrimp changed color... looks like kind of orange?

Shirakura Liquid Mineral Ca+

I Bought this 2010 and I really like this product. I been using this about 9 months and shrimps are more active, eating well and molting with no problem. This doesn't poison shrimps if small amount of liquid being dropped. I personally do 2-3 drops every 6-7 days.

Here is information about this product:

Shirakura Liquid Mineral Ca+ adds vital minerals to the aquarium water and raises its overall hardness (dGH). Especially when using very soft water, a lack of minerals is well-known to occur quite quickly and Shrimps might suffer from loss of colour and skinning problems. The important microorganisms in the filter and in the substrate become inactive and the water quality decreases. A water hardness (KH) of 0-2 is recommended for breeding bee shrimps, as is a pH-value of less than 7 in order to avoid the formation of ammoniac. However, achieving these values, the overall hardness (dGH) often gets too low. In this case it is recommended to harden the water with Liquid Mineral Ca+ in order to avoid the death of the shrimps. The water hardness (KH) is not influenced by this. Mr. Shirakura furthermore recommends maintaining an overall hardness (dGH) of 5 or more for a healthy and strong skin.

Example of usage

For a new aquarium, add 5 ml (about 60 droplets) of Liquid Mineral Ca+ per 10 l water. For existing aquariums with shrimps, add this dose over several days. Prepare exchange water mixture beforehand.

1 drop of Liquid Mineral Ca+ to 1 liter water raises the general hardness (GH) by about 1° dGh.

CO2 Atomizer

I have bought two of small CO2 Atomizers 2 weeks ago... The brand is UP-Aqua from Taiwan. I setup DIY CO2 and 2 days later bubbles started coming out. I do have few glass diffusers and I like this one better since I use DIY CO2 and bubbles seems to be smaller.

Active blue bees!!!

My blue bees in my tank for 3 weeks now. So far, none of them have died... These shrimps very active and lots of female like to hide in dark places. The funny thing about blue bee is that they don't stay with same color everyday. These shrimps do change color everyday between brown, blue or purplish colors. The color of the shrimps that shown in pictures are kind of purple to brown and more thicker color then before. I sometimes do see blues colors as well. What I noticed is that, these shrimps are just little smaller than CRS...

Good new!!! Female with half berried (5-6 eggs), just have released some baby shrimps! I saw 4 of them!!!

Brown shrimp~

I had about 40-50 of these shrimps and dude to work and my real life, they all died expect 13 shrimps... The tank has bee reset up and running about 1 month now... So far, they are eating well and moving healty. Also, I found 4 berried brown shrimp this morning!!!

Baby CRS!

New born CRS 2 weeks old!

Blue Bees paracaridina sp.

I got my shipping today. These are 12 blue bee shrimps (paracaridina sp.). What I read was color of these shrimps are dark brown to light brown and blue color. I did about 50mins - 1hour, acclimating these shrimps before putting into my tank.

Seller gave me 3 berried shrimps and one with half berried shrimp! Last picture is taken 1hour later introducing them to my tank. So far, I see none of them with blue color... but, I'm hoping I get some blue with in few days. Right now, they are gazing ground and looks like they are doing good.

Cracked glass

This tank hasn't been cleaned for over 1 year? and I felt like cleaning today. I took out all the substrate and plants out. Now, I needed to clean the glass and I accidently hit the corner of table while I was moving the tank. I heard some noise and I found side of my glass is little cracked!!! There goes my 20 gal tank... -_-

Took some photos of CRS

Another berried shrimp!

Glass seems to be little dirty but, another brown shrimp carrying eggs!!!