Yellows

I have been into yellow shrimp for quite some time. These shrimps are tough so to speak and their breeding rate is comparable to our dear cherries or sakuras and snowballs.

However one thing that keep me back is that their color tone never seems to improve. Faint and transparent-like of yellow seem like the norm for these yellow creatures. I have yet to able to have a single piece of thick shell yellowish like shrimp in my colony till this date.

Despite so, the yellow eggs are the one that make those females looks wonderful.

Fenbendazole

Fenbendazole is used mainly as one of the deworming medicine for animals like horses, cats, dogs and even fishes. However fenbendazole exist in many various forms whereby some may be fully soluble in water while others need acid to make it solvent.

Recently I imported this powder and tried it few tanks of mine to determine the effectiveness. Im very satisfied I would say. Not only did I eradicated all those planarias in the tank, not a single animal, be it shrimps fish or snails die in the process. Furthermore other parasites that loiter in the substrate like thread worm were killed in the process. Ill stressed the medicine I got is fully aquatic and is not the normal deworming powder found in pets store.

If you wished to eradicate these unsightful creatures which prove very harmful to your shrimp. You can take a peek here.

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59411

Cheers.

Goldens -great breeding tools...

Most mutated species came from these golden guys whom they themselves are mutated ones too. Genes play in shrimps is real interesting.

Blue vs Red Ramshorns

Crossbreeding of blue and red ramshorns.

The shrimplet was there watching the fun too. Haha.

Shrimp Store has been set up at AquaSpid.com

Hi all, AquaSpid shrimp store has been set up to provide some of the basic necessities meant for shrimp hobbyist. The store will contain both livestocks and shrimp products ranging from food supplies to shrimp accessories.

Pardon for the lack of items at the present moment. More items will be updated once available.

At the moment please stay tuned.
http://www.aquaspid.com/Home/shrimp-store/shrimp-products

Conditioning of Shrimps

An updated version has been loaded to my site.

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.