Snowballing

Colony has been increasing well lately. Here goes one tank of snowballs. Enjoy...

New shrimp products- AQUASPID

A few of our very aquatic hobbyists have gathered to form a group to push forth a series of shrimp related products-AQUASPID. I, being a hardcore shrimp fan, am proud to be the team leader in this project of which one of our dear group member is a biologist and the other a hardcore planted tank expert. The 3 of us have spend tremendous effort in sourcing and experimenting many kinds of raw materials and chemicals in order to derive a range of shrimp products. With a total of combined 30plus tanks, we have try out every means to determine the well being of keeping shrimps which run from a mere Malayan to a priceless king kong. This process is not easy I will say, painful but rewarding. With that we sincerely hope every shrimp keepers out there will have a chance to try our very new products and do able to find joy in keeping these wonderful creatures.

Launch of AQUASPID will be in 2010, most probably the start of the year, In the meantime,
series of "sneak previews" where samples of the products will be given out FOC to test responses read feedbacks.

Updates will be done here and at my site AQUASPID soon.

Please stay tuned and do support.

Thanks.

Regards
Spid on behalf of AquaSpid team

Different types of Algae

Kudos to the blog writer.

This blog contains come important information about shrimp breeding and keeping. I like the description of the algae part as some algae identified were important food source for shrimplets, especially small shrimplets like CRS.

Here is the link- http://www.aquariumalgae.blogspot.com/

Articles added

Hi all,

I have updated and wrote some articles related to shrimp keeping at my main site www.aquaspid.com. Do take a peek if free.

Cheers.

PLANTS and BIOLOGICAL FILTRATION by Diana Walstad

http://www.aquabotanic.com/plants_and_biological_filtration.htm

Some good stuff to share.

Cheers.

Saving dying shrimps

Here is one tip for the month-

If you ever encounter dying shrimp colonies, meaning one or two shrimp die off one by one each day, its good to catch the remaining ones, adjust them well to another tank. Parameters need not be the same for the new tank.

The another tank that housed these remaining shrimp has to be a stable old tank.

Meanwhile please sterilize the problematic tank. How to sterilize ill post some steps in the future.

Cheers.

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.