Last look of my forested Nano

After much deliberations, it is time to upgrade my tank. The shrimps are getting too productive in this small 1-footer and the plants are squeezing each other for spaces as seen in the pic. Therefore, I reckied around and eventually bought a suitable 5-plan 1.5 feet acrylic tank and keeping to budget and space constraint issue. It is really a challenge to do transfer due to high sensitivity of shrimps (by more than a 100 including shrimplets) to the water elements. Getting plants to acclimatise in the new environment is no easy task too . Both flora and fauna are equally important to me in this risky project. Will follow thru the steps in subsequent days...

Double Happiness

Above: 2nd Generations of snowballs "pregnant" again. That means, the "grand children" of my first purchase.

Above: Surprised by so many sakura babies from their hideout.

Nature food source - Salvinia float

Water surface - shrimps busy feeding on Salvinia leaves (top pic)

Beneath the surface (snowball, sakura & CRS taking turn to feed)

When I thought my shrimps love to nibble on sinking Ketapang leaf, they enjoy scavenging in my floating plants too. See what they did and turned my salvinia into leaf skeleton.

Netting the filter

I noticed I hardly need to clean my filter sponge after changing to a diy netting which provide more efficient suction thru the filter inlet and non-blockage of dirts around it. As a matter of fact, I hardly need to clean my tank with all the necessary gadgets now put in place that allows my tank to run on its own eco-world. The only little thing that is needed - simply top up the water due to evaporations. Keeping shrimps is such a joy for now.

New Visitor on 2010

I saw this cicada in the morning of 2 January 2010 at our doorstep. It was struggling to survive, so I tried to save it by bringing it indoor to prevent neighbours from tramping on it accidentally. However it couldn't make it in the late afternoon and was buried in the lucky flower pot at home. Anyway, it looks cute with big head, big eyes and a greeny fat furry (not those creepy hairy) tummy.

Happy new Decade 2010!!!

New life has just begun after molting out old problems - message from a dwarf shrimp.

Reflection of 2009

Have not been updating my blog for a while. Here is the reflection of what has happened to my
mutli-recial shrimps tank in 2009.

Survival 2009:
Sakura - more babies
CRS - getting stronger and bigger but no sign of pregnancy
CBS - ---- diito
Snowball - produced babies
Long nose (1 piece left out of 5 pieces) - died of hunger
Black Tiger - only one piece left
Blue - given away after their surprise mass reproduction.
Yamoto - not a single casualty

Unsuccessful
Green Shrimp (bought 4 pieces )- gone missings, or probably eaten up
Yellow Shrimp (bought 3 pieces) - -- ditto ---

Orange shrimp - died
Cherries - died
Red Tiger - died