I redid my 2 gallon, 10 gallon and setup my old plastic 5 gallon. All the tanks should be cycled already but I ran out of test solution for nitrite so I'll have to wait until I have time to go buy a test kit and test the water before putting the shrimp back in.
the 5 gallon was setup with sand and will be homes of the sulawesi shrimp I will soon be getting. My supplier is having some problems with the paperwork involved with getting the shrimp shipped into the US so I dont know when I'm going to be getting the shrimp.
the shrimp in my 2 gallon died 3 days after I transferred it into my Do! Aqua tank. It has to be the seachem flourish tabs.
The black out I did on my 20 gallon worked very well. 90% of the algae is gone. now I'm keeping the lights on abut 7 hrs/day but in intervals. it would be something like 2hrs on and 15min off. I read on a forum that this method works very well to fight off algae. I will densely plant this tank with stem plants so that I could increase the lighting hours with out causing any algae. I've noticed a lot less berried females since I did the black out. The eggs did hatch but usually, the same shrimp will get berried again within 3-5 days. I'm guessing there are less berried shrimp because I didnt turn the light on for 4 days; therefore, decreasing activity of the shrimp. This might also be the reason why my tigers are breeding so fast, because they get about 12 hours of light everyday.
The survival rate of the CRS i'm breeding is fairly low compared to the lower grades I kept before my move in may. I'm getting about 15-30/ batch right now compared to the 30-45/ batch I had with the lower grades I had. This is probably caused by the lack of genetic diversity as they were inbred so much more than the lower grades to get their coloring and patterns.
Friday, September 25, 2009
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