An Exciting Day at Shrimp HQ - a.k.a. My Office

Delivery by 1300 it said on the email from Keen Shrimp. I know what I've ordered but Alan has perhaps got other ideas. I am expected a couple of dozen F1s, together with KKs, Wine Reds. I've done my water changes this morning, about 12% on each tank, checked the TDS and Nitrate (149 and 145 on the recipient tanks with ZERO nitrate, yipee) and got my slow drip siphoning things ready.

Come on Mr Postman!

It must be Christmas, the nice man from DPD has just delivered the Mobiler HMF Reaktor ProfiLines for my new tanks. They certainly look up to the job. I may yet also put an undergravel in a couple of the tanks. The taller one will go in my Dennerle 60L the next time I change the substrate.

So my new shrimp have arrived and are now getting the drip treatment. The set up does look rather Heath Robinson but it works. I have little clamps on the siphon airline to give me a drip rate of about 1.5 drips per second. You can also just put a knot in the line and tighten it to adjust.

I haven't yet had a chance to properly see the new arrivals as I wanted to make the transfer as stress free as possible. After al,l they have probably been banged around quite a lot. I will hopefully get some photographs later as there are some specials.

Alan asked me to take some moss photographs as he is keen to see how it's all doing. Unfortunately i have yet to sort the lighting and it is impossible to get any kind of depth of field.

Just out of interest here's a photo of a little bit of moss and one of the snails. If anyone had asked me a couple of months ago what I thought of snails my answer probably would not have been repeatable!