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Aquaculture peppermint shrimp larva round two! (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Chad Vossen
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"Doooo it! Doooo it!" lol, do it when noones home, then clean the heck out of it. its beef heart so its still human grade food anyways. didnt you get it from a butcher?
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Still have 20+ of these? Those are great pictures. Where did you get your photography idea?
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no, i got it from petsmart... lol
i think im going to return it, i wasn't impressed by it at all.
i went through the petsmart freezer, and if i didnt already have it, i bought it. as of right now, i have 11 different kinds of frozen foods. plus whatever is in the fridge, then my dry foods. the reef gets a varied diet.
dawn suggested a 5$ food processor, i will have to look for it. i
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the photography idea is just trial and error. as far as i know, i still have 20+. i took probably 50-80 pictures of that one shrimp, every 5-10 pictures, i would change something in the attempt to get better pictures.
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OK, another week has finally passed any updates? 
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OK, another week has finally passed any updates?
the pleopods are bigger, thats about it. still waiting.
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i took a few pictures tonight, unfortunately i couldn't get a good picture of the pleopods. i will take more tomorrow to show the development, hopefully i can get some clear photos.
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took a few pictures, this is the setup im using to take the photos.
only got two good photos before the battery died. i have a 2nd younger shrimp in the picture as well, it is eating a brine shrimp.
only got two good photos before the battery died. i have a 2nd younger shrimp in the picture as well, it is eating a brine shrimp.
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here is a video
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wow that light works slick
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Do you have any for sale now? I need some because of that darn Aiptasia. I would prefer to use shrimp over chemicals. Does anyone have a personal preference on how to take care of these nasty buggers?
Any suggestions would really be appreciated.
Linda J
Any suggestions would really be appreciated.
Linda J
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i have used aiptasia control with good success and i have never had it kill anything else in my reef tank.
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none are for sale yet, and probably not for awhile. when they settle, they are going to be tiny. i could sell them tiny, but beware fish will be able to eat them easily.
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none have settled yet, lots have missing "spear legs", or half regrown legs. they cant settle unless all their legs are perfect... i turned my air bubbles down, hopefully reducing the water flow will prevent damages. i have an idea for next time that should prevent issues like this.
i know that some ppl who raise shrimp, can get them to this stage easily. but sometimes the shrimp just simply wont settle and slowly die off. i fear this may end up happening to me... its suggested there is a settling que that is missing. i added a branch of coral skeleton in hopes of encouraging settlement.
i know that some ppl who raise shrimp, can get them to this stage easily. but sometimes the shrimp just simply wont settle and slowly die off. i fear this may end up happening to me... its suggested there is a settling que that is missing. i added a branch of coral skeleton in hopes of encouraging settlement.
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i did it, but i made food for my turtle. lots of berries, fruits, vegitables, and a large sample of each of my frozen foods (bloodworms, krill, mysis, cyclopeeze, daphnia...). nobody was home, so nobody knows
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Aloha from Hawaii! I'm on vacation in Oahu.
Well, I have an idea about the mysterious settling cue that invert breeders have been looking for. On the south side of this island there is a phenomenon of jellyfish swarming the beach 8-15 days after the full moon for a couple of days. I wasn't having success with my peps settling in the "appropriate" time either. I had to move them to a different grow out tank so I could get them out of our home office. I moved them to a place that had access to an window without blinds. Eventually, one did settle and the others disappeared for unknown reasons. Maybe they have some lunar cue??? The adults are "nocturnal" and the larvae are attracted to light.
What do you think?
Well, I have an idea about the mysterious settling cue that invert breeders have been looking for. On the south side of this island there is a phenomenon of jellyfish swarming the beach 8-15 days after the full moon for a couple of days. I wasn't having success with my peps settling in the "appropriate" time either. I had to move them to a different grow out tank so I could get them out of our home office. I moved them to a place that had access to an window without blinds. Eventually, one did settle and the others disappeared for unknown reasons. Maybe they have some lunar cue??? The adults are "nocturnal" and the larvae are attracted to light.
What do you think?
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i guess ill get my window rack built, and move those shrimp over towards the window.
so, you going to smuggle some stuff back for us? ill place my order right now; i want all the dwarf angels you can get, baby dragon moray eel (less than 12 inches would be nice), some buckets of wild copepods collected in open water, and a shot glass from hawaii (i collect them!). yea, im totally joking about all that, have fun on vacation!
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well, it seems im down to 5 shrimp larvae. im certain all of the shrimp from the initial hatch are dead, and im now left with a few that i "tossed in".
water quality was suffering, salinity getting high, and bacterial levels rising. so i added 2 gallons of water from the reef, and added some RO water (mixed both into the drip bucket. i figured i would "top off" the shrimp tank and do a water change at the same time. well, next day (today) i come home from work and find many dead shrimp on the bottom of the tank. i also found a huge amphipod that has aparently been living the good life with all the food.
ill keep going with the few i have, never know what they will do. im going to upgrade back to my 65 gal and i plan to try raising shrimp in the sump.
water quality was suffering, salinity getting high, and bacterial levels rising. so i added 2 gallons of water from the reef, and added some RO water (mixed both into the drip bucket. i figured i would "top off" the shrimp tank and do a water change at the same time. well, next day (today) i come home from work and find many dead shrimp on the bottom of the tank. i also found a huge amphipod that has aparently been living the good life with all the food.
ill keep going with the few i have, never know what they will do. im going to upgrade back to my 65 gal and i plan to try raising shrimp in the sump.