So I have been having problems with all my softwater shrimp with the exception of my Golden Bees with have FINALLY started breeding for me. Upon suggestion from Bill Southern I tested the pH. All the tanks I was having problems with had a pH of 7.5 or higher despite using Aquasoil and 100% RO [...]
Yesterday I treated a 20gal tank with Wild Type Neocaridina Shrimp with 2 mL’s of Panacur. Now, about 24hrs later, al the shrimp are live and well. The Panacur also had no apparent effect on my pond snails, ramhorn snails, Sulawesi snails. Interestingly, at least to me, the Panacur had no apparent effect on the [...]
This being my first blog I did not realize I had to approve all my comments before they were posted…just figured it out. Guess I am glad I had it set that way since I got about 7 comments for an ED medication that needed deleting (sorry if anyone wanted to read them )
Sorry for the delayed update, life and such. After 24hrs I didn’t see a single planaria in the tank. I even tried baiting them with food and not a single one so it looks like it worked. How I just need to find a good test tank with shrimp to try (shrimp that I could [...]
So I decided to try some to kill the hydra and planaria in my shrimp tanks. I still am not convinced one way or another that they do harm to shrimp, but better safe then sorry I guess. Once you have planaria I have found them very hard to rid yourself of them. I have [...]
So Thursday night (at midnight no less) I noticed a young tiger shrimp in with my green shrimp. Tiger shrimp often don’t let go when you pull plants out of the water. I caught the tiger shrimp but when I got the net out of the tank the tiger shrimp flipped itself out and onto [...]
So here is the start of my blog. Stay tuned for more posts