Anyone here Working with Crystal reds?
Hi all,
Anyone here working with Crystal red shrimp? I've bred them in the past and am strongly thinking of doing so again.. I recently acquired some equipment that will be perfect for shrimp.
Anyone have a reputable source or want to sell some stock?
-alh
Re: Anyone here Working with Crystal reds?
I have a friend on Aquariacentral goes by msjinkz and I got all mine from her. she is a moderator there and has all kinds of inverts she kinda specializes in. Id talk to her!
David
I tend to stick with the cherry red shrimp since they are in with the discus.
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I'd like to know this too. Had this sitting around for a while...would be perfect...
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../cubetank1.jpg
;)
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Hey Matt,
A friend of mine was working at a lab and they raised zebrafish there... lab closed down and they were going to throw away the system... I've yet to set it up, but this is what I have....http://www.aquaticeco.com/images/sta...B_benchtop.jpg
each tank is 2 gals.:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D usually my luck is bad for things like this...but not this time!
-al
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That's a nice, clean setup Al! You lucky son of a gun! LOL!
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Originally Posted by
Chad Hughes
That's a nice, clean setup Al! You lucky son of a gun! LOL!
Thanks Chad!
Its made by aquaticecosystems! The one I have has more bells and whistles including a supplimental blower and built in UV sterilizer.:)
-al
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Dang Al! You struck oil with that one. I can't believe they were going to toss it out! CRAZY! I can't tell you how many times I come across good deals on stuff (that I really don't need), but what you have here is special!
Good luck with the setup!
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Nice Al! Mine is right around the 6-7gal mark. Some scrap glass was laying around after a sump project so I threw mine together. It holds water! ;)
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Matt thats the nice thing about shrimp...they don't need alot of room!:)
good luck with it!
-al
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Geez Al....sweet deal indeed!! Want to guess how much that baby cost new??! LOL. Let me know if you need any help getting it up and running.
P.S. we offer screened baffles (several different micron ratings I believe) to prevent the critters from going through the overflow.
-Ryan
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I have started to work with the Tiger shrimp... some of mine have red striped, some are normal and others are getting blue. I found them a little more interesting then the crystal reds but plan to start working with those shortly. I order my shrimp from Theshrimptank.com. He has great shrimp and I never have any die. I even got babies with mine :).
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Originally Posted by
Dkarc@Aol.com
Geez Al....sweet deal indeed!! Want to guess how much that baby cost new??! LOL. Let me know if you need any help getting it up and running.
P.S. we offer screened baffles (several different micron ratings I believe) to prevent the critters from going through the overflow.
-Ryan
Thanks Ryan,
I'm going be setting it up in the next week or so for a test run.....This thing is only a few years old at most. If I run into problems I know who to go to!;):)
-al
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make sure you use well seasoned water and sponges. they dont like new setups. crystal blacks are good also..and another one is green babaulits.
blue tigers are hard to come by but very desireable. or blue pearls.
cherries..if you start with 50 you can have well over a 1000 in about 6 months. not as expensive or unique..but the staple for aquarium trade. always buyers. i sell them for 2.00 each.
keep your eyes peeled for hydra. they will lasso and eat the babies.
heres a great forum. http://www.crustaforum.com/board/index.php
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Al
I am going to start working in the Opa' e ula or Hawaii red vulcan shrimp (Halocaridina rubra) mostly because of the ability and it seems fairly easy, as they are very strong shrimp and they get abuse a lot sell in glass sphere enclosures "so called ecosystems" and they don't get feed for years in some people's desk until eventually they died for starvation and poor water quality but not after live for up to 10 years in some cases.
Any way they are brackish type 1.014 specify gravity. and only need WC once a month.
so this is piece of cake compare to daily WC with my Discus.
If you want we can trade some I was trying to get some crystal for a while for my 90 gal that I had to storage at Fl.when the navy send me here.
Sincerely
Julian.
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Originally Posted by
April
make sure you use well seasoned water and sponges. they dont like new setups. crystal blacks are good also..and another one is green babaulits.
blue tigers are hard to come by but very desireable. or blue pearls.
cherries..if you start with 50 you can have well over a 1000 in about 6 months. not as expensive or unique..but the staple for aquarium trade. always buyers. i sell them for 2.00 each.
keep your eyes peeled for hydra. they will lasso and eat the babies.
heres a great forum.
http://www.crustaforum.com/board/index.php
+1
I have played with freshwater shrimp in the past and had very good luck with them. April is right all it takes is a few shrimp and wait and you will have tons.
Just make sure the genetics on you starter shrimp are are good as possible if you plan to sell them. Many of different colored (CR, BB,etc) freshwater shrimp can breed together they then start to revert to the wild type (usually not brightly colored) and you can't tell if a crystal red was breed accidentally with a bumble bee or whatever else. I had this problem with my LFS shrimp and slowly over the many many generations of breeding them (years) I lost a lot of the coloration.Maybe my next aquarium experiment will be to try to breed Amano algae shrimp, but they require a saltwater larva stage so it makes it a lot more difficult.
Have fun Al, I love watching shrimp in a aquarium they have a lot of personality.
Alex