On July 15 I bought a do aqua mini-l from aqua forest aquarium. Its about 8 gallons and I just added fish yesterday. I will be posting pictures sometime this week. I'm planning on keeping blue pearl shrimp and Japanese blue swordtail guppies in the do aqua mini-l. In fact, the blue pearl shrimp are coming in the mail tomorrow!
As for my other 4 tanks, I hooked up a sponge filter to the 10 gallon orange bee tank and the 12 gallon tiger shrimp tank to get rid of the surface film. The CRS in the 20 gallon are all doing very well and seemed to have settled down, but the only thing is that I still haven't been able to see many babies. The most I've counted was only 5. I saw another berried CRS last week so now I have 2 berried females. Hopefully the survival rate of the babies will increase.
On 7/16 I got some wild caught tiger shrimp from ocean aquarium, known to have the healthiest fish and most knowledgable staff. I bought 15 pieces of tiger shrimp from them and since I'm one of their regular customers, they gave some of the nicer pieces and even some berried ones. They were the nicest tiger shrimp I've ever seen! Unlike regular tiger shrimp, these guys had purple, red and blue tints to them and are a bit larger than the other tiger shrimp I've seen before. I've read online before that wild caught shrimp do not adapt to tank conditions very well but I ignored it anyways and went ahead to buy them. After this, I really learned my lesson. The tiger shrimp were okay in my tanks for around 3 days then they started dying off one by one. Now I only have 10/11 pieces left but they all seem to be active and healthy now. It was mostly the larger and berried shrimps that died. When I bought them, they gave me 5 berried tigers and now I only have 1 berried female left. I seperated the eggs from the mothers that died and dumped the eggs back into the tank. I've hatched eggs like this before with orange bee shrimp and cherry shrimp but I have yet to see a baby shrimp. Today I saw a very small exoskeleton of a baby shrimp floating around in the tank so I'll continue feeding mosura bioplus in that tank and hope for the best.
The 2 gallon iwagumi scape I have up right now isn't doing very well and it acquired a lot of algae. I'm planning to siphon out all the water and just let the hairgrass grow emersed. I already moved all the fish into my newly cycled do aqua tank so all I have to do is siphon out the water.
Heres a old picture of what it looked like several weeks ago before it got infested with algae:
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