Starting from this month, I had find it hard to keep track of the breeding progress as the number are just overwhelming. There are two batch of Baby Crystal Shrimp showing sign of reverting back to Primitive Wild Type. A few of them also start to show different color tone of Green, Blue and White.
Otocinclus Catfish had been a very Excellent Cleaner for
the Tank, they had help me to reduce the cleaning and maintenance of the
tank from one week to two weeks.
New Baby Crystal showing a bit of Green.
Otocinclus Catfish Excellent Cleaner
The older shrimp color get more vibrant as they get older, some of the younger shrimp also doesn't had much color as previously expected.
Their favorite place are mainly the Floating Driftwood and the Pea Sprout Roots, they also like to find food at the Sponge Filter. The Pea Sprout Root provide a good hiding place for the shrimp and also help to maintain the water parameter. The sponge filter provide more space to promote bacteria growth and also additional filtration.
The Fish Tank is a slightly different setup with more driftwood as the fish prefer a softer and more acidic water as compare to the shrimp preference of harder and more alkaline water. The shrimp tank hardness is maintain by the sea shell and mineral ball.
The different between two generation.
Pea Sprout Roots
Fish Tank
The Orange Rili start to show sign of stripe on the back, it is getting a bit like Golden Back. The population grow very fast, with a few new shrimp having eggs every few days and new baby shrimp hatching almost every week.
The baby shrimp start to show more Primitive Wild Type look with Black or Brown Tiger Stripe, I had to transfer the Yamato Shrimp from the small Aquaponics Tank to the Fish Tank so that I can use it to do Culling.
The shrimp also start to show affection toward us and will usually swim up and stay on our hand whenever we dip in for some cleaning or maintenance.
Over Population
Primitive Wild Type
Showing Affection
The Otocinclus Catfish are able to live in perfect harmony with the shrimp, they are herbivore and we had no worry of them eating the baby shrimp. We had try to shift some of the fish over to shrimp tank to help clear some of the White Tread Worm, the Harlequin Rasbora look uncomfortable with all the shrimp swimming around and the White Cloud Mountain Minnow had been seen eating the baby shrimp with much aggressiveness.
So far only the Neon Tetra are a bit more peaceful and they had became our choice of fish for pest control. The Yamato Shrimp also seem to live peacefully in the Fish Tank and doesn't really swim around much to frighten the Harlequin Rasbora. They usually just crawl slowly around the driftwood looking for food or just hide near the sponge filter doing nothing.
Harmony
Yamato Shrimp
Got to see a rare slight of the shrimp mating, the whole process only took about 10 seconds. Not sure if I am lucky or what, I get to see two other mating progress the next day too.
The Shrimp Tank start to have a few Hydra, they start to appear a day after I clean the tank. Maybe the disturbance of the sand gravel had prompt them to come out of hiding and climb up the glass wall. As they are known to attack baby shrimp, I decided to try removing them.
Mating
Hydra
