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.