I picked up a set of 10 wine red panda shrimp a little over 3 months ago. These are a super-attractive Caridina species with dark wine-red patches alternating with pure white patches. This is a showy shrimp that stands out against any type of aquarium background. The pandas have done well but historically I haven’t […]
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The new Caridina babies are getting bigger and it’s a little easier to see what they look like. Because they have a stripey appearance I thought they were wine red panda children but they have no real white colouration anywhere on them. To me they look like tangerine tiger shrimp that have some black stripes.
Read more →Successful caridina breeding! Baby wine red panda shrimp Shrimp love rocks! Woo-hoo! The neocardinas in the Shrimphaus have been breeding at a pretty steady rate for a year, but not much luck with any of the caridina species – CRS, Tangerine Tigers, Wine Red Pandas – until now. Three possible reasons below.
Read more →You might notice your web browser has a small picture next to the page title on the browser tab. This is a pretty old-school thing from the early days of the web called a ‘favicon’. They are a nice to have and most sites will have one. In the super-early days of the web these […]
Read more →Filed under “never seen that before” it looks like green spot algae (GSA) is in retreat in the Shrimphaus. The conventional wisdom (and my previous experience) is that algae colonies, once established, never spontaneous regress. You can remove damaged leaves to allow for new growth, and you can spot-treat hardscape and you can prevent new […]
Read more →Schismatoglottis prietoi, apparently increasingly known as ‘Philippine anubias‘, is a brilliant aquarium plant with an unpronounceable name so don’t let that put you off! Schismatoglottis prietoi requires almost no maintenance This what makes this plant so special. A lot of aquascaping plants go through a number of stages. You first get them and they are […]
Read more →TL;DR: Problems with algae? Turn down lighting intensity Sometimes there is wisdom online if you know where to find it and then actually listen to it. Clive at UKAPS for example advises against the “photon cannon” approach of blasting your aquarium with too much light. Too much light causes problematic algae. Lately I haven’t been […]
Read more →We already have a graphic representation of the inter-connectedness of the Niade posts and pages: a website connectivity graph. As you might expect, because the site is very highly interconnected, that winds up looking like a snarled mess. Much more useful is a knowledge graph: a visual representation of the conceptual (semantic) relatedness between the […]
Read more →It perhaps will not come as a big surprise that the hobby sometimes ascribes common names incorrectly to species names. Tangerine Tiger shrimp are a case in point. Tangerine Tiger shrimp are almost universally described in the hobby as Caridina serrata, but actually they are Caridina cantonensis (much more on that below). Does it matter […]
Read more →I love Aquarium Gardens. Such a great aquascaping shop. They recently opened a new larger operation in Peterborough, so I thought I’d check it out. Owned by Dave Pierce (no relation) they stock plenty of aquascaping kit and plants. They also have a showroom where you can get some inspiration. They only moved in two […]
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