Berried Females all over the place.

 There is about to be a massive shrimp population explosion. I have berried females in almost every tank. 

Shrimp Journal- Berries everywhere- New Crystal and Velvet Shrimp

 Scott and I took a trip to Boise to see his Mom today. Going to Boise for me means I get to visit with other shrimpers, and hit up the local fish store. So glad I got to go today. 

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. 

Shrimp Journal- Rearrange the Shrimp Room Day

Yesterday was rearrange the shrimp room day!!I had new tanks to set up, I wanted to move the Fluval to the north bench, one of the tanks on that bench to the west bench, the two five gallons to the bottom shelf on the rack. I had three new tanks to set up.

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.

Shrimp Journal- My first berried Caridina shrimp

It's Christmas day. I've got my first berried shrimp in caridina tank four. That's the titibees/red safari culls/crs/cbs tank. It's one of the ttb's. I've seen the boys get the zoomies three times now, and this is the first berried female I've seen.

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.

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. 

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.

Shrimp Journal 5 Aura Blues and tank update

The blue dreams in the fluval tank are doing amazing. They're breeding like rabbits, the babies are growing to juvies and soon some of them will be ready to start breeding themselves.