I haven't done much blog-wise for a while except keeping the availability list up to date. I have been busy looking for a new job, trying to paint some windows when it has not been raining and also re-arranging the fish/shrimproom and cutting back a bit. Family takes more time with a new baby and an older one with some challenges.
Some tough choices when deciding what to let go and what to keep, but I am getting there. A lot of fish has gone. A lot of shrimp are still there (to stay) and a few species of Corydoras, Oryzias, Pseudomugil etc. but more of those will go eventually.
Some of the species went to new places included my Caridina logemanni "White bee" and Paracaridina meridionalis/zijinica "Sandhummel". Both really nice but I figured that if I should regret it, I could relatively easy get them again.
Nice group of white bees with some biiig mammas!
...same went for the "Sandhummel".
So, how does it look now? What remains is 16 x 30 litre and 4 x 50 litre in one of my old racks with space for upping the number of tanks if I should want that again in the future. I like the outcome and I think it will work well for me. It is still a bit un-organized but every day small bits fall into place.
The "operation" itself went smooth with no losses and I got all the HMF filtermats cleaned out and the tanks set up relatively clean. Now, a couple of weeks later, my Paracaridina haivanensis "Princess bees" suddenly started dying from one day to another. This is only the second time in my 10 year "career" as shrimp keeper/breeder I experience this and I am not shure of the cause other than I assume it is a bacterial problem. I tried to do a large waterchange and add some aldercones and cattappa-leaves but the deaths continued so yesterday a tablet of JBL Furanol 2 was added and seemingly stopped the deaths. Time will tell if the problem is gone. Most people advice Baytril, but I was not able to get any of that.
Dead shrimp...sad sight!
Crossing shrimp is not something I have done a lot. I have a background in wildtype fish. Livebearers, Corydoras etc., and in those areas of the hobby, hybrids are mostly a total no-go. A few years ago I accidentally made some TiBees but apart from that I haven't explored hybridization a lot.
I have bought some Pintos and also some Galaxy Backline and think they're nice animals so I decided to try some myself. So far I have started these projects:
Yellow KingKong x White bee
Red tiger x White bee
Red tiger x Aura blue
It will be interesting to see the outcome after some generations.
A few new shrimp also made their way into the house...the new China Princess, Rusty tigers and others. More on that later.
A new thing on the blog is the section Interesting shrimp I used to keep and the other sections have been updated with what is left.
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