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. […]
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Here is a new baby Blue Velvet neocaridina shrimp in the shrimphaus. A berried Tangerine Tiger caridina shrimp does its thing on the left side with a pure red line caridina watching on. The zoom out at the end shows the scale. I thought the Blue Velvets were not doing well, but there are at […]
Read more →I wanted to get some different colour shrimp to help liven up the Shrimphaus but it’s not good to mix different colour morphs of the same species as the offspring will eventually wind up as wild-type colouration. Shrimphaus already has two different morphs of Caridina cantonensis shrimp: pure red line (PRL) and more generic crystal […]
Read more →With the caridina shrimp I’m trying to keep the KH around 30 ppm CaCO3 (about 1.7 dKH) by pre-treating Cambridgeshire tap water with a suitable amount of hydrochloric acid (HCl). The problem is the old aquasoil has been resisting the new water chemistry. The other problem is the aquasoil is brown/black and the slate is […]
Read more →Shrimphaus has always had neocaridina shrimp and more recently after switching to low alkalinity water there are caridina shrimp too. I noticed a berried female and started a ‘baby shrimp watch’ to see what would happen. Timing of shrimp baby hatching The new batch of stripy caridina arrived in the Shrimphaus on 4-Sep and I […]
Read more →‘Crystal Red’ caridina shrimp: top-down view on the edge of the river Bloody Mary shrimp (Neocaridina davidi) have been living in the Shrimphaus for a couple years now and are starting to get a little long in the tooth. Their solid dusky red colour also makes them difficult to see against the dark aquasoil and […]
Read more →It’s been 10 weeks since the tear-down and rebuild of the Shrimphaus. One of the things that surprised me in that process is there turned out to not be very many shrimp in the Shrimphaus, and mostly not any small ones. This suggested that things in the previous build were not as they should be […]
Read more →Filed under “how are we doing with this AI thing” and just for funzies, I asked ChatGPT to help us out with bloody mary shrimp, the main feature of the Shrimphaus. First attempt: write me a 500 word blog post about bloody mary shrimp Bloody Mary Shrimp is a delicious and unique twist on the […]
Read more →The original Shrimphaus was crusted over with black beard algae which did not respond to systemic treatment, so I took down Shrimphaus, did a thorough clean and rebuilt Shrimphaus with a modified, more maintenance-friendly design. In the original Shrimphaus concept, I was going for an all-slate hardscape with mainly epiphyte plants like Anubias and Bucephalandra. […]
Read more →It’s been more than four months since the Alternanthera reineckii ‘Rosanervig’ got planted in the Fireplace Aquarium, and whilst it seemed to be doing well initially, after 11 weeks things weren’t looking so great. I thought lack of light from overgrowing Bucephalandra caterina might have been contributory, so I did a massive epiphyte trim to […]
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