Tiger on the loose!!!

I am letting my tiger out, to control the herd of other shrimps. I fell in love with this shrimp due to their distinguished body stripe – which comes in red, dark brown or black. They are hardy creature and, apparently, hungry most of the time. Don’t worry, they are not those carnivorous tiger from night SAFARI, rather a harmless vegetarians that mingled well with everyone in there.

Snowball

Rolling out 3 snowballs out of 5 in my tank. They are like snow flakes, flying in my tank and landing on the greens, which bring out the Christmas mood I look forward to every year

Hardy Aquatic plants

A tank without flora is like an empty stage without beautiful scenes. The followings are hardy aqua plants which I installed for my shrimps to seek rest, algae and... intimacy?

1st picture - Nano plants & marima moss (algae ball)

2nd picture - Java moss

3rd picture - floating frogbits

4th picture - Thailand java moss

Shrimp foods

Crusta Gran - Algae pellets - my shrimp's favorite and do not make my water cloudy.

Corina Shrimp delights - my otto's favourite though the pellet looks a little messy when bloated and my shrimps find it a little overwhelming to nibble at the bloated food. By far the cheapest shrimp food unlike many shrimp food selling at approx a red note per tub.

Sakura Shrimps

Sakura and Cherry shrimps belong to the same family. Unlike Cherry with sparse body coloring, Sakura has a more dense red color from its head to the tail. I feel like forming haiku out of these sweet little red creatures - Sakura clustered in the wood, blossomed under the winter chill...

My Cherry Shrimps

Having a conducive setup with mosses, nana plant, soil and a cooling water temperature. I decided to have my first shrimp - the cherry - known to be hardy shrimp, suitable for my low tech aquarium setup.

Top Up Accessories

After I had my first shrimp (Amano), I decided to invest in a good fan system, a liquid fertiliser for plants and a digital thermometer for measuring the water temperature.
With the help of power fan, the water temperature is kept at a comfort level below 29c, mostly hovering between 27C - 28C and sometime reaching 25.5C during the wee hour of the night until dawn breaks while my fan is switched on 24/7.

Amano Shrimps

Than I added Yamoto or Amano Shrimps into my tank to help clean up algae and other left over foods deposited at the base of my tank....Unfortunately the Amano was attacked by unfriendly wild betta and resulted in one casualty before I decided to give away my imbellis to protect my shrimp's safety.....

The many things I like about Amano are their nice bluish tinted body color which is difficult to find among many dwarf shrimp varieties (which will be added to my community tank later). Sometime it changes to slightly darkbrown and red color while occassionally appears a little greenish too. Generally speaking, it is a very hardy shrimp when kept at a difficult water temperature between 29 - 30C. They molted quite regularly after busy cleaning themselves and also helping to brush others! That goes to show they are very friendly and supportive among their own kind.

The Journey (months ago)

I started with few cardinal tettras, Ottos and imbellis wild betta in my planted tank, couple months ago, before everything starts to revolve recently that turned my betta tank into a colorful shrimps tank.

My Shrimps Aquarium

There is no better cheap retreat than spending a night by the side of my small planted aquarium, away from stressful day in office. In my humble nano cube dwell different species of dwarf shrimps, playing along the forest broken woods and underhill. My adventure with them has begun....