I will be updating this blog as soon as I get a moment. More details to follow but eureka, I have finally found a seriously quiet air pump. I'll do a bit of a review with some noise measurements within the next week.
I now have Orange Eye Royal Blue Tigers, Super Red Tigers and my Taiwans are breeding. And today my Benibachi PRLs are due to arrive.
I am also looking at setting up some more breeding tanks. Alan at Keen Shrimp has developed an automated system which sound very impressive. For an amateur like me something much simpler will be the order of the day although I do want to find a way of reducing the time taken for water changes.
Shortly I should have quotes for a couple of 200L tanks which will be subdivided in to 5 or 6 compartments by glass divisions which leave a gap at the bottom. The gap will be covered by substrate but of course water can flow through. This way I get a much larger body of water and can carry out the water change on all the tanks at the same time.
The disadvantage is of course that I will risk a problem being transmitted to all the tanks.
Sorry that this is short. More stuff including photos to follow.
Thanks to an "outage" at UPS the PRL did not arrive on Friday. To add insult, and shrimp stress, they were sent from Eastleigh to Tamworth to Exeter. A round trip of 650km (400mls)! All over a very hot weekend with temperatures at home well above 30C.
As I write this the Benibachi PRL are acclimatising over 4 hours using the drip technique. They were all alive when I opened up the packing but two have subsequently died so I am now down to 13. Hopefully the survivors will settle in well. My supplier advised me to take the TDS up to 250ppm to help the poor little things through their moult.
TDS is at 160 right now so I will be adding a pinch of GH+ every day and leave everything at that level for a month and then gradually bring it back down.
I've just found a rather fine video of CRS moulting. Go to here, well worth a look.
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