Something Must Be Wrong?: Apr May Jun 2021 Ecologist Diary

The Crystal Shrimp behave like Cat, they like to hitch hike and ride on Rabbit Snail like what cat did for Robot Vacuum. The Crystal Shrimp continue to breed, Summer seem to be their Mating Season. The older Shrimp are getting Bigger, they are about 50% longer than the previous limit.

Found another Baby Rabbit Snail crawling on the glass wall while feeding the fish one morning. The older Crystal Shrimp also have deeper color, they use to be yellow but now more like orange. Manage to find Baby Danio at the pail, must have transfer them accidentally when I did the water change.

I was surprised that they are able to survive a week without any food, brought some brine shrimp to feed them to ensure they grow faster. Baby Danio had grown big, now is about the same size as Crystal Shrimp. Three of them remain the original silver color with black stripes, one of them adopt the luminous green color but without stripes.

Found another Baby Rabbit Snail just a day later, this one should be the twin of the 4th one. They really like to climb wall, some time they would hide inside the Java Fern. They are very strong, sometime can see them hanging on to the leave and still be able to move side way without falling off.

The Rabbit Snail usually only breed one offspring per month, but seem like they are breeding one every two weeks in my Aquarium. The condition must be very good for them, and they must have found sufficient amount of food source in order for them to decided to expand their population.

Hitch Hiker

Pregnant Lady

One Big and One Small

4th Baby Rabbit Snail

Crystal Shrimp feeding on Spirulina Tablet

Baby Danio grew big

5th Baby Rabbit Snail

3 Baby Rabbit Snail climbing wall

5 Baby Rabbit Snail side by side from Big to Small

Baby Rabbit Snail hanging on

Starting to see a slight increase in population for Fire Red and Sunkist Orange Crystal Shrimp, I hope their population will thrive well to bring balance to the Yellow Bumble Bee dominated society. The Rabbit Snail had been chewing on the Java Fern Leave, I had seem a lot of holes on the Java Fern Leaves which I had never seen before until I start to keep Rabbit Snail in my Aquarium.

Passion Fruit had form a natural shelter over the Large Tray with the help of wire mesh I brought from online shopping website. Vegetables continue to thrive in Long Pot while new sprout is growing in Large Tray after recent harvest. The setup near to the lift lobby now become a mix of random plants, I had remove the old label to prevent confusion.

Fire Red Crystal Shrimp

Sunkist Orange Crystal Shrimp

Passion Fruit forming Shelter

Vegetables growing well

Mix of Random Plants

Found a Neon Tetra with swollen eye, did a search and found that it is Popeye Syndrome. Fluid accumulate behind the eye, it is not a serious case but the eye will become blind. Found another Baby Rabbit Snail when cleaning the Fish Tank, this will be the 7th one so far.

Notice that the Bak Choi had Flower, as my wife is busy with her work and my mom only harvest the Lettuce for cooking. The Bak Choi was left to grow until it start producing seeds. Another Baby Rabbit Snail had been found while cleaning Fish Tank, decided to transfer all the Adult Rabbit Snail to Fish Tank for Breeding.

I notice that the Java Fern at Shrimp Tank had been growing very well, so I decided to trim it and transfer some to Fish Tank. I went to the Aquarium Shop to get some Drift Wood for weighting down the Java Fern, when I was securing the water plant to the drift wood I discover another Baby Rabbit Snail at the Fish Tank.

Guess the 8th and 9th Baby Rabbit Snail are twin like the 4th and 5th one, I think they should be from the same mother. At this rate I might continue to get lucky and breed a lot of Rabbit Snail, not sure if any of my friends or relative would be interested to keep them.

Found another Baby Rabbit Snail the next day morning after I transfer all the Adult Rabbit Snail to Fish Tank, guess this time round it is a Triplet instead of Twin. One of my Army Friend is interested to get some for his Nano Fish Tank, he will be adopting a few from the existing one which I had.

Give 4 Baby Rabbit Snail to my Army Friend, he actually only wanted 2. I convince him that my Rabbit Snail will continue to breed more and it will be better for him to have more for effective cleaning and breeding too.

Found another Baby Rabbit Snail the next day morning in the Fish Tank, the strange thing is that it is not active. Not sure if it is dead or just an empty shell, transfer to Shrimp Tank for observation. Actually since they had breed so much, it doesn't really matter whether it is successful or not.

Yamato Shrimp continue to have Eggs, most of the larvae that hatch had become food for the fish. The Opae Ula had not start to breed until now, pending observation of their breeding process to ensure success of the Yamato Shrimp breeding in the future.

The previous Baby Rabbit Snail is a failure, but I manage to find another one few days later. Also manage to see two Rabbit Snail acting weird which seem like Mating to me.