EverStuff Shrimps
Documenting the good and the bad while keeping freshwater Caridina and Neocaridina shrimp.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Shrimp Journal- Blue Bolts from Blue Crown Aquatics.
Blue Crown Aquatics has become my new fav place to order from. I keep trying to save my tip money to order some really high end shrimp, but then they post in one of Facebook groups that they're having a special on some really nice looking shrimp. This was two pair of sexed young adults Blue Bolts and one random juvie. Super nice looking shrimp.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Monday, February 4, 2019
Friday, February 1, 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Shrimp Journal- Shrimp room tanks updates with Video
New post on the new blog!! We plan on starting doing homesteading stuff again on the homestead in the spring, chickens, garden, calves and such. I'll start updating that blog again, so I started one just for shrimp. Taddaa!!
Did a little bit of tank maintenance today. Mostly pulling out some overgrown moss and throwing it in the new tanks. Pulled the sponges off the filter in the big tank in the living room and swapped them out with one of the new tanks. Took off the sponge pre-filter in the big tank and squeezed it out in the new tanks to help the beneficial bacteria get started colonizing the new sponge filters.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Friday, January 11, 2019
Shrimp Journal- Rescaped the 36g in the living room
All the tanks are full. I set up the 29 gallon I've had sitting under the bench about half full of water and put one of the new large sponge filters I got last week in it. It's got a bunch of duckweed and salvinia floating across the top. It's still under the bench, but I'll use to to grow out plant clippings and extra plants. I plan on putting some of the neo culls out in the living room tank in there just to help keep the tank clean.
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Sunday, December 30, 2018
Shrimp Journal- Great Blue Dream pics finally
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the H2O2 treatments is working on whatever was affecting my shrimp. I've done water changes on all the problem tanks, bringing down the TDS and GH to the minimum acceptable levels. The berried titibee is still berried and her eggs nice and tight, but her tank wasn't giving me any issues. I do have a mustard green berried in the yellows tank, and after weeks of waiting, two berried aura blues again.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Shrimp Journal- My first berried Caridina shrimp
Labels:
Aura Blue,
Black Tibee,
Blue Bolt,
Blue Dream,
Blue Velvet,
Caridina,
Cherry Shrimp,
Crystal Black,
Crystal Red,
Fresh Water Shrimp,
Ghost Bee,
H2O2,
Neocaridina,
Orange Rili,
Shrimp Journal,
Xmas
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Shrimp Journal- Berried Orange Rili
Water change day today.
Back before I got the RO unit I was refilling distilled water bottles at the grocery store, and I still use them at home. Fill from my RO unit one gallon at a time, add in the remineralizer, and slow drip into the tanks. I got mine from theshrimpfarm.com GH and GH + KH.
Friday, December 14, 2018
Shrimp journal- Ordered my fav shrimp, Ghost Bees! H2O2 treatments
My jade/aura blue tank is giving me fits. I've had two berried aura blues, and one berried jade in the last few weeks drop their eggs. I was so excited to have those first berried aura blues. It's almost like what ever makes the eggs sticky on the underside of the female shrimp wasn't sticky enough. An egg or two could be seen dangling and in irritation she'd try and flick them off. Next thing you know, she's kicking off most of the eggs as others come loose. Here's a pic of it happening to a blue dream a while ago. You can see the eggs dangling underneath her.
Monday, December 10, 2018
Shrimp Journal- What is with this Golden Bee?
Somewhere I've picked up muscles necrosis in my blue velvets tank. It's a bigger tank, lots of plants, rocks, driftwood, so it's hard to see all the shrimp all the time. There's plenty of places for them to hide, and when one dies, I can't always find it. I saw one with a very milky colored body the other night right up in the front of the tank and thought, "Oh crap." I started netting out all the shrimp I could see and separating them out. The ones I could see cloudy bodies, or suspected went into a floating breeder box in another tank. The ones that looked clear went into the hang on breeder on the velvets tank. One of the cloudy has already died after 4 days. There were six left in the breeder box. I moved them into a floating breeder in the cobalt tank and so I could do a 75% water change in the velvets tank. It was time for a water change anyhow, and the tannins were building up pretty high again since it's a dirted tank.
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