I have been using this stuff in my shrimp and fish tanks for the past year now and its worked extremely well. Before using this generic stuff I was using Mosura's old sea mud powder and it was just too expensive for me. They are identical to each other. I want to share this stuff with other breeders out there and help people like myself save some money.
here's mosura's description of old sea mud powder:
"Mosura Old Sea Mud Powder is a safe and natural product which enhances water quality, replenishes and enhances minerals and trace elements in your tank water that has been depleted, either by your local utilities, water changes or by excessive filtration, and remove certain harmful substance like decomposed organic carbon, amines and glysxerols from your water, it is also capable of removing heavy metals, free radicals and pesticides in the water.
Use of Old Sea Mud is very popular in Japan, and almost all pro shrimp keepers use them.
We select high quality mineral rock to be used in our breeding tank and that explains why Mosura Old Sea Mud Powder contains very high portion of trace element, that is close to 3% by weight and close to 70 different trace minerals and compounds have been identified, making it very suitable to remineralize your tank.
This product is used in our new tank setups as the lowest level of the gravel or regular adminstrations into water column. Mosura Old Sea Mud Powder is capable of polishing the water by attracting impurities in the water, your aquarium water get clearer after Mosura Old Sea Mud Powder is used in water column. For first time usage, the tank may take longer time to clear up, however, for subsequent usages, clear up time should reduce as an indication of improving water quality.
This product can not only improve the well mean of fauna and also improve the growth rate of of flora because of the concentration of trace elements in it.
We recommend to use this product:
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during tank setup
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dose it regular into your tank water column if you have not use it as a base
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after 6 months dose it into water column if Mosura Old Sea Mud Powder has been used as a base
In summary, it has these functions:
* Increasing good bacterial activities
* Improving water quality by removing toxic such heavy metal and free radicals.
* Deodorizing unwanted smells
* Reducing the number of water changes
* Re-mineralization of tank water for shrimp, fish and planted tanks."
This product also increases KH (carbonate hardness)of the water which would help keep the pH stable but too much will raise the pH. This stuff can also be used in salt water reef tanks to keep the pH high and mineralizes the tank for corals. It contains lots of trace elements that can benefit plants in planted tanks and of course, provide minerals for molting in shrimp, crays, and crabs.
This generic old sea mud powder will be sold for $16/(300mL)
Mosura sells their old sea mud powder for $7.25/bottle(60mL)
Please email me at kevinliang@theshrimpjournal.com to make orders or for details.
thanks!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
5/2 update
I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve moved things around added a couple tanks and fish. As of right now, I’m attempting to breed veil tail/phoenix rams, and vietnamese minnows (thanks bart).
Pics:
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My basement
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10 gal Ram tank
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Male ram
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These rams have spawned over 5-6 times for me but I’ve only been able to raise one batch because of the lack of tank space/ equipment. I have about 20 3-4 week old babies right now that are fairly healthy. I ordered some hang on specimen containers to hang inside the main breeding tank for egg hatching so I wouldn’t need a heater for each batch of eggs I hatch.
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Viet minnow breeding tank
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Mini-L paludarium- currently housing 8 viet minnows, 2 amano shrimp and 4 nerite snails.
CRS Price list- causes of variation in price
B/C 2-3$
A/S 4-5$
S/S+ 5-8$
SS 8-16$
SSS 20-80$
most breeders grade differently but that is the average price range for the different grades. you may have questions to why the range increase as the grades go up. this is because in low grade shrimp, the white is very broken and the same grade shrimp are very similar where as in higher grade shrimp like SS and SSS grades, even if the patterns are SS and SSS grade, the white parts of the shrimp can be almost clear.
In the SSS with clear white bodies (low quality) they would be 30$ which are most common in the US and in the SSS with solid white bodies, they can cost up to 80$ or sometimes even more.
I have traded high grade shrimp with many breeders and bought shrimp from many breeders all over the US, all SSS were around 30-40$ range but were crap compared to the 60-80$ SSS I got from China or Japan. Its worth the extra money because quality is so much higher.
I'm not saying the more expensive the shrimp are, the higher the quality; but rather the price generally varies according to quality.
Because CRS is relatively new in the US, breeders are still selling their culls so most of the higher grade shrimp will look like crap. the best way to obtain good quality shrimp is to pick them out yourself locally or get them from out of the country. Another good way to get higher quality shrimp is to purchase them from breeders that have been selling for more than a year because all or most of their culls were already sold. The longer they have kept/sold shrimp, the higher quality they are going to be.
Here is a short list of breeders who I think have high quality shrimp:
Brian's tropicals- they have been selling CRS ever since I started breeding shrimp so I would expect their shrimp to be fairly high quality but the huge drawback is that their shrimp are raised in pH of 7.6 and it may be hard for their shrimp to adapt to our tank conditions.
Bill southern- but as gordon mentioned, he is very inconsistent with reading his emails or taking orders. It took me 3 months to get a hold of him to purchase shrimp.
Feiyang+xiaoli- they are a couple from milpitas, CA. they have been selling shrimp for well over a year now. I have dealt with them and saw their tanks many many times and they definitely have one of the highest quality CRS colonies I've seen
Last but not least, myself- I have been selling CRS for over a year now with heavy culling so I can almost guarantee the white on all the CRS I sell will be solid. I've had many hobbyists come over to my place to check out my tanks and they've always been amazed at how solid the coloring on my CRS are. I initially started with CRS from xiaoli and a japanese line, throught the past year and a half, I've been adding new blood from different breeders to add genetic diversity. Now my colony of CRS contains genetic info of more than 5 different bloodlines all over the country and asia.
A/S 4-5$
S/S+ 5-8$
SS 8-16$
SSS 20-80$
most breeders grade differently but that is the average price range for the different grades. you may have questions to why the range increase as the grades go up. this is because in low grade shrimp, the white is very broken and the same grade shrimp are very similar where as in higher grade shrimp like SS and SSS grades, even if the patterns are SS and SSS grade, the white parts of the shrimp can be almost clear.
In the SSS with clear white bodies (low quality) they would be 30$ which are most common in the US and in the SSS with solid white bodies, they can cost up to 80$ or sometimes even more.
I have traded high grade shrimp with many breeders and bought shrimp from many breeders all over the US, all SSS were around 30-40$ range but were crap compared to the 60-80$ SSS I got from China or Japan. Its worth the extra money because quality is so much higher.
I'm not saying the more expensive the shrimp are, the higher the quality; but rather the price generally varies according to quality.
Because CRS is relatively new in the US, breeders are still selling their culls so most of the higher grade shrimp will look like crap. the best way to obtain good quality shrimp is to pick them out yourself locally or get them from out of the country. Another good way to get higher quality shrimp is to purchase them from breeders that have been selling for more than a year because all or most of their culls were already sold. The longer they have kept/sold shrimp, the higher quality they are going to be.
Here is a short list of breeders who I think have high quality shrimp:
Brian's tropicals- they have been selling CRS ever since I started breeding shrimp so I would expect their shrimp to be fairly high quality but the huge drawback is that their shrimp are raised in pH of 7.6 and it may be hard for their shrimp to adapt to our tank conditions.
Bill southern- but as gordon mentioned, he is very inconsistent with reading his emails or taking orders. It took me 3 months to get a hold of him to purchase shrimp.
Feiyang+xiaoli- they are a couple from milpitas, CA. they have been selling shrimp for well over a year now. I have dealt with them and saw their tanks many many times and they definitely have one of the highest quality CRS colonies I've seen
Last but not least, myself- I have been selling CRS for over a year now with heavy culling so I can almost guarantee the white on all the CRS I sell will be solid. I've had many hobbyists come over to my place to check out my tanks and they've always been amazed at how solid the coloring on my CRS are. I initially started with CRS from xiaoli and a japanese line, throught the past year and a half, I've been adding new blood from different breeders to add genetic diversity. Now my colony of CRS contains genetic info of more than 5 different bloodlines all over the country and asia.
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