setup for crs( B grade)

[ahloy]

Originally Posted by bo_cheng_hoo

bro, i share with u,i got my hino in my tank my temp abt 26 to 28.. all my crs and hino colour doesnt fade away. maybe u can try high grade..

bro still no confident in handing high grades.. and also bo money la.. NSF nia.. wait for me to ORD.. then work jiu will got for higher de le.. ha..

PS all.. this few day very busy.. no time to take pic.. will try to take it soon and update..

Originally Posted by numbskull

fan is not so bad for CRS ba. I had kept CRS for about 2 weeks with my Sakuras under 25-MAX 27 Degrees with no problem. Water condition should not be a problem if you had cycled your tank properly as well as all harmful material being removed.

2 weeks too soon to say. I've kept mine for more than 6 months in a fan-cooled environment and still not confident. However, I have noticed that mortality of the shrimplets were not so good... only the lousier grades survived. In addition, my berried shrimps have about 15 shrimplets each only. I have heard from others that this is quite a low yield.

My problem was that it was a 10" tank and when it got infested with algae, I did daily wc... much to the detriment of my CRS. In less than 2 weeks, all wiped out. All it needs is just one bad wc to tip the scales in a small tank.

[globalcookie]

Originally Posted by ahloy

bro still no confident in handing high grades.. and also bo money la.. NSF nia.. wait for me to ORD.. then work jiu will got for higher de le.. ha..

PS all.. this few day very busy.. no time to take pic.. will try to take it soon and update..

Money aside. I feel it's good to start with the average shrimps, and upgrade progressively. This way, you get more excitement when you get higher grade offspring later. Trust me, e feeling is different from starting off with higher grades immediately.

I started with Grade B (or A) and when I had my first pregnant shrimp, I was excited and looking forward to seeing the shrimplets. Now, after 1+yr, seeing Hino shrimplets doesn't give me the same excitement as I had when I had my first batch of Hino shrimplets.

There's no wrongs about gg high grade immediately. It's just the progression that people miss out.

Originally Posted by jetset

My problem was that it was a 10" tank and when it got infested with algae, I did daily wc... much to the detriment of my CRS. In less than 2 weeks, all wiped out. All it needs is just one bad wc to tip the scales in a small tank.

Upgrade e tank size if you can. 10" tank is courting disaster. Not that small tanks are bound to fail, but it's just so much more difficult to handle. Not that I don't take up the challenge, but I just felt bad when shrimps in my hand are not managed properly. It's a life afterall.

I have a small tank. I did quite a bit to stablized it. I thought the tank is stable. I have shrimps, I had a few generations of shrimplets too (in this tank). Casualty rate seems low (don't notice any dead shrimps for sometime now), water appears normal. Shrimps are more sensitive than Ottos. BUT, I tried putting in Otto, I tried putting in Snails... they can't cope in the tank, but shrimps are still able to multiply. Why? I give up, I won't put in otto and snails anymore.

Thus, for your tank, I suggest you don't continue with this tank. Upgrade it, start all over again.

Originally Posted by globalcookie

Upgrade e tank size if you can. 10" tank is courting disaster. Not that small tanks are bound to fail, but it's just so much more difficult to handle. Not that I don't take up the challenge, but I just felt bad when shrimps in my hand are not managed properly. It's a life afterall.

I have a small tank. I did quite a bit to stablized it. I thought the tank is stable. I have shrimps, I had a few generations of shrimplets too (in this tank). Casualty rate seems low (don't notice any dead shrimps for sometime now), water appears normal. Shrimps are more sensitive than Ottos. BUT, I tried putting in Otto, I tried putting in Snails... they can't cope in the tank, but shrimps are still able to multiply. Why? I give up, I won't put in otto and snails anymore.

Thus, for your tank, I suggest you don't continue with this tank. Upgrade it, start all over again.

Yup... my crs tank is now 1.5 ft. I cannot go larger than that unless I get new racks etc. I'm keeping my fingers crossed here.

The 10" tanks are now used for RCS... I have 3 of them with RCS and they have been breeding for about 2 yrs already. The bumblebee and ramshorn snails in them are doing ok as well. In fact, I started with just one orange ramshorn 2 yrs back and have more than a hundred now (not in the same tank of course).

I have another 2 of these tanks for guppies. These have ottos which are doing ok. Ottos are more sensitive than most shrimps... I believe that they are signals when the nitrate levels goes high... something like the rummy nose... only diff is that they die instead of losing color.

Originally Posted by globalcookie

Money aside. I feel it's good to start with the average shrimps, and upgrade progressively. This way, you get more excitement when you get higher grade offspring later. Trust me, e feeling is different from starting off with higher grades immediately.

I started with Grade B (or A) and when I had my first pregnant shrimp, I was excited and looking forward to seeing the shrimplets. Now, after 1+yr, seeing Hino shrimplets doesn't give me the same excitement as I had when I had my first batch of Hino shrimplets.

There's no wrongs about gg high grade immediately. It's just the progression that people miss out.

Upgrade e tank size if you can. 10" tank is courting disaster. Not that small tanks are bound to fail, but it's just so much more difficult to handle. Not that I don't take up the challenge, but I just felt bad when shrimps in my hand are not managed properly. It's a life afterall.

I have a small tank. I did quite a bit to stablized it. I thought the tank is stable. I have shrimps, I had a few generations of shrimplets too (in this tank). Casualty rate seems low (don't notice any dead shrimps for sometime now), water appears normal. Shrimps are more sensitive than Ottos. BUT, I tried putting in Otto, I tried putting in Snails... they can't cope in the tank, but shrimps are still able to multiply. Why? I give up, I won't put in otto and snails anymore.

Thus, for your tank, I suggest you don't continue with this tank. Upgrade it, start all over again.

i also start with malayan and cherry shrimp. for the first 2 month then i upgrade to c grade crs.. when my crs colour didnt fade for a month then i try a grade then hino..