lotsoffish
08-27-2009, 09:16 AM
I get E mails almost DAILY from different folks regarding what parameters they outta keep their shrimp in.
It is my experience that ALL the shrimp I keep, breed and just maintain for resale do fine in my tap water. In fact I would venture to guess that if I started messing around with my tap water believing everything I read about all these shrimp I would end up killing a lot of them by screwing around with my water to lower the pH and soften it. I also couldn't conveniently do regular partial water changes on my shrimp and that would probably be a bad thing also.
I have also read shrimp to not appreciate large partial water changes but that also is not my experience with keeping all my shrimp. More than once I have walked away from a tank while syphoning it down and ended up siphoning about 19 gallons out of a 20 gallon tank. When I have done this I have simply squirted some dechlorinator in to my tank and promptly refilled the tank with water coming right out of my tap and if anything happened over the next few days I would say I get more molts, more berried females, and my shrimp are more active and healthy looking than before.
Now look folks. I am not telling you to do what I do, I am simply telling you what my personal experiences with shrimp are.
When those Cherry red first appeared on the scene a few years a go I bought about 12 of them for over 120 bucks and stuck them in a one gallon jar with Java moss and kept them in that unheated jar on a window sill in my old apartment and I had 200 of the damn things in that jar a few weeks later.
It is painfully obvious to me all these shrimp I keep do not read all this information stating how sensitive they are to water parameters because if they did they would all keel over and die in my tanks immediately.
Make no mistake, shrimp will not tolerate Ammonia and nitrites in their water, on the other hand I have berried females all over the place in my fish room and the only thing I ever do to my water is change some of it.
Below is an example of how I keep certain shrimpettes I want to raise from certain females. I keep about 6 or 8 of them in a 8 Oz. chip dip container with no airation and nothing but 2 or 3 baby snails to latch on to. I bet you won't read about that anywhere either. :gickle:
Lighten up on the parameters crap folks. Your driving me crazy here. :surrender:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/lotsoffish/8-26-09053.jpg
It is my experience that ALL the shrimp I keep, breed and just maintain for resale do fine in my tap water. In fact I would venture to guess that if I started messing around with my tap water believing everything I read about all these shrimp I would end up killing a lot of them by screwing around with my water to lower the pH and soften it. I also couldn't conveniently do regular partial water changes on my shrimp and that would probably be a bad thing also.
I have also read shrimp to not appreciate large partial water changes but that also is not my experience with keeping all my shrimp. More than once I have walked away from a tank while syphoning it down and ended up siphoning about 19 gallons out of a 20 gallon tank. When I have done this I have simply squirted some dechlorinator in to my tank and promptly refilled the tank with water coming right out of my tap and if anything happened over the next few days I would say I get more molts, more berried females, and my shrimp are more active and healthy looking than before.
Now look folks. I am not telling you to do what I do, I am simply telling you what my personal experiences with shrimp are.
When those Cherry red first appeared on the scene a few years a go I bought about 12 of them for over 120 bucks and stuck them in a one gallon jar with Java moss and kept them in that unheated jar on a window sill in my old apartment and I had 200 of the damn things in that jar a few weeks later.
It is painfully obvious to me all these shrimp I keep do not read all this information stating how sensitive they are to water parameters because if they did they would all keel over and die in my tanks immediately.
Make no mistake, shrimp will not tolerate Ammonia and nitrites in their water, on the other hand I have berried females all over the place in my fish room and the only thing I ever do to my water is change some of it.
Below is an example of how I keep certain shrimpettes I want to raise from certain females. I keep about 6 or 8 of them in a 8 Oz. chip dip container with no airation and nothing but 2 or 3 baby snails to latch on to. I bet you won't read about that anywhere either. :gickle:
Lighten up on the parameters crap folks. Your driving me crazy here. :surrender:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/lotsoffish/8-26-09053.jpg