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  1. wearsbunnyslippers

    Has anyone managed to breed Amano shrimp

    If he means they hatched and lived for a short while as successful then it is probably true. I have read of a german breeder breeding them by catching all the juveniles and slowly increasing the salinity, then when they are more mature, slowly decreasing the salinity again until fresh. This the...
  2. wearsbunnyslippers

    What is this insect?

    nope, most fly larvae are fish food not vice versa :)
  3. wearsbunnyslippers

    What is this insect?

    its a type of may fly
  4. wearsbunnyslippers

    carpet with MTS?

    cranked up the co2, the snails are crawling up the sides to the top, making them easy to remove :D
  5. wearsbunnyslippers

    carpet with MTS?

    never seen assassin snails in south africa, they are pretty strict on the invert list. i have already filled the tank, i wont know what to do with the puffer afterwards, so i guess it is going to be manual removal for now...
  6. wearsbunnyslippers

    carpet with MTS?

    i only have the one tank setup, and i have a few plants already that would not work with DSM.
  7. wearsbunnyslippers

    carpet with MTS?

    by MTS i mean malaysian trumpet snails, not multiple tank syndrome or mineralized topsoil. too many tla's... how do you start a carpet with these snails?? you can spend hours planting hc or glosso, tenellus etc. only to come back in the morning and see all your plants floating... i just moved...
  8. wearsbunnyslippers

    Cherry shrimp dying one by one

    or the exact opposite, if you have too high gh or kh, their shells are too hard and the cannot moult properly, they get squished by their own shells as they grow... so yeah, check your gh and kh readings...
  9. wearsbunnyslippers

    More strange thing's in my tank! HELP!

    could be a nematode...
  10. wearsbunnyslippers

    what to do with baby shrimps?

    give them away, sell them, feed them to your fish, make tiny barbie sized shrimp cocktails, dry them and feed them to the neighborhood cats? hehe, only serious about the 1st two..
  11. wearsbunnyslippers

    Will CPD eat my shrimplets?

    the cpd's are egg scatterers so the shrimplets are safe with cpd's but the cpd eggs are not safe with shrimp...
  12. wearsbunnyslippers

    Now Can I Keep Shrimp?

    i have read that people are feeding their high grade crs's rabbit pellets, you can also treat them with some cucumber, blanched baby marrows and spinach...
  13. wearsbunnyslippers

    Now Can I Keep Shrimp?

    you should definitely be able to keep cherries, but as for breeding them, not so sure. if it is big enough to fit in a fishes mouth it is food, but if there are loads of places for the babies to hide then you should get a few surviving. remember to shrimp proof you filter intakes too...
  14. wearsbunnyslippers

    HELP! very small white things on glass??

    if they are worm like the are probably midge larvae, they might grow into bloodworms or similar... otherwise might be copepods, maybe cyclops? small fish love to eat both of those! i am having the same issue in my nano, excpet i have both, worms and cyclops, i have a large rock and it looks...
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