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 […]
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To help promote genetic diversity I acquired some bloody mary shrimp from Best Aquarium Shrimps UK to supplement the existing colony in the Shrimphaus. They arrived happy and healthy in a plastic bag filled with water and a bit of plastic mesh for them to climb on. How to successfully transition them to their new […]
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 →shrimp on the riverbank Particularly after a water change, the shrimp like to collect on the river run shelf. I’m not sure what they’re after here, but this is a consistent behaviour of theirs. This is the kind of thing you’re not going to be able to observe without a shallow flowing water component to […]
Read more →Following on from the disastrous experience of adding new cherry shrimp to the Fireplace Aquarium I decided to give the shrimp their own aquarium with no predatory fish! I built them their own customised Shrimphaus and after a couple weeks of equilibrating the water chemistry and biology I added some Bloody Mary shrimp sourced from […]
Read more →Shrimphaus! Shrimphaus is a ‘low tech’ (no injected CO2 gas) shallow tank designed to support shrimp and also both submersed and emersed plant growth. The aquarium is an ADA Cube Garden 45-F model made from ultraclear low-iron glass with near invisible silcone seams. The tank measures 45 cm wide by 27 cm deep by 20 […]
Read more →As reported in the Guardian “Going for gold(fish)” the pandemic with associated lockdowns and work-from-homes has led to a upsurge in popularity for aquariums at home. Something nice to watch from the side while on those conference calls. This is good news, but problematic in some ways as the investment in time and maintenance is […]
Read more →Why good water flow is important for an aquarium It is well established that good water movement is important in salt-water reef tanks where anemones need to have some wave action to move food around over them but the benefit to freshwater setups might be less obvious. In a live aquarium plant setup with injected […]
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