Conditioning of Shrimps

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http://www.aquaspid.com/shrimp-keeping/conditioning-of-shrimps

Hinos tank

This tank only contains hinos and higher grades.

All this while has been aiming to maintain and improve coloration.

Tap water paramenters in Singapore

Data given by PUB - http://www.pub.gov.sg/general/Pages/WaterTreatment.aspx

"On Monday, my tap water ph reading is 8.2, on friday, its 7.3!"
"On a water change on monday the chloride level in the tank seems alright, on another day its seems to have a strong chlorine odour."
"Breeding or raising discus is not as easy as what it used to be!"

The above are some comments I heard from few discus hobbyists who change their tank water 100% daily.

I guess not only discus suffered, other aquatic fishes or shrimps do suffered if a large water change were to be practised. As a matter of fact I often practised 80-90% of tap water change for shrimp setups. However that was about a year or two ago when Im dosing chemicals like formalin, methylene blue, bifuran, etc and even anitbiotics like tetracycline. And if theres any chance of me doing that again with the current tap water. The answer is a definte NO. Reason being I have lost too much shrimps due to heavy water change. Shrimps are small and unlike fishes who are able to show symtoms if they are sick or under bacteria attack. Even so, exact medicine availble for treatment is not readily available at present. Therefore to judge whether they are alright after a major water change is difficult for anyone.

So I do recommend shrimp hobbyist in Singapore do play cautious when comes to water change and to prevent disease-prone shrimps, purchase shrimps from reliable sources. Right now I only top up my CRS tank with distilled water. Those tanks with high nitrates, i do try praticse a 10% water change each week or if budget allow i will shop to add more cannister filters.

Cheers.

A German Site to Share

One fabulous german site to share. This site covers many areas in terms of shrimp and clayfish rearing. I typically like the shrimp diseases section the most. Its very informative!

Do take a peek for those shrimp enthus.

Kudos to the site adminstrator again.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crustakrankheiten.de%2Fcrusta-blog

DIY Air bubble Container

Here is a cheap DIY equipment that allow more oxygen exchange with the surrounding and prevent my dear lighting equipment from getting wet.

I used a unused gravel cleaner plastic bottle, cut a small hole at the side for the suction cap and place the top of the container above water level.