I thought the Blue Velvet neocaridina shrimp had all died off, but then suddenly, babies! There are at least 5 new little guys in the Shrimphaus. I have no idea where they came from – there is no sign of their parents. I gave them some protein flakes and they seem to be enjoying those. I can only guess there are numbers hiding out in the big pile of rocks somewhere. The water alkalinity is around 30 ppm CaCO3 equivalents, or a little over 1.5 dKH. Mostly I am trying to keep the alkalinity down to support the caridina shrimp, but seems good for neocaridinas too.
on a plant weight
enjoying a protein snack
lots of them (and one caridina)
The plant weight is holding down some new Tropica Monosolenium tenerum I picked up from Aqua Essentials. Too early to tell how that is doing yet since it got planted only two weeks ago. The tenerum is a liverwort, similar to but much larger than the Riccardia growing emersed on the river.
I think the little green sprouts around the protein flakes are submersed form Lilaeopsis Novae-zelandiae which got planted on 22-Feb. but I’m not completely certain about that. The only other contender would be ‘dwarf sag’ – Sagittaria subulata but pretty sure these spouts came up before the Saggitaria got planted (15-May).