1st try at planting!

[madehtsobi]

of the fish i have kept, the only other ones that school as well are rummy nose tetras. i wasnt big on RNT until i bought some on an impulse from someone leaving the hobby and now i like them quite a bit just for that reason.

my briggitae dont really school so much as they hang out in the same place. they are getting better now that i removed the CPD from their aquarium yesterday.

i dont think i ever seen RMT at LFS...

yeh im actually thinking of selling my briggitaes now too.

you ever get your amanos?? i went to fishland on saturday and they had ALOT...

[Totenkampf]

Aquarium world has RNT but they are on RO water and you need to bring in a test sample of your water before they will sell them to you. HAW has some nice ones too, and on city water. The ones I bought originated from HAW.

i might be interested in the chilis, they dont school like i wanted but i still like them and i am down to 16. i thought that i had lost most of them but they were hiding in the presence of the CPD.

you told me fishland and somehow fishranch got into my head. were they really amanos? i ask because i went two places, including fish ranch, on friday because they said that they had amanos that actually turned out to be listed as "algae eating shrimp". they were definately not amanos and i suspect that anyone selling them for 2 bucks may have these instead. i got the last six from murray and churty at HAW (thanks guys!) and then lost power in the storm friday night around two in the morning until 9 saturday. i dont think that they made it with all that stress, the water was really cold in the tank. i did buy another 5 at the GHAC meeting though and they are adapting well. now that they have little things like heat and filtration. i will look for more at the end of this week if these guys continue to get along well. the rams immediately checked them out but want nothing to do with em after seeing how big they are...btw HAW sells them for 4 bucks but they are HUGE and worth the price

[madehtsobi]

im running RO water along with tap because of my crystal shrimps.

yeh i have like around 20 or so i think and theres like 3-4 more hiding inside the rocks and i cant get to them without disturbing the substrate and everything else.

hmm thats what fishland labeled them as...
how do u even tell the difference?

[Totenkampf]

the ones i saw had really sharp pointy rostrums and no markings on their sides. the feelers also werent very long. something about the eyes too. they just didnt look "right" and the store personnel couldnt absolutely verify that they were c.multidentata

the amanos i am used too usually have spots along the flanks, big black eyes, more rounded rostrum, and long primary feelers. the ones from HAW and the GHAC auction immediately struck me as being "right" looking. I was told that there is a florida wholesaler that is cross breeding glass shrimp with "something else" and selling them as algae eating shrimp but they are not nearly as good algae eaters nor long lived.

btw, grab a copy of amazonas magazine from B&N..this month is devoted to dwarf shrimps. interestingly many of the euro breeders are not using overly soft water. i think that i may try to bring my white pearls up to tap water conditioning

[madehtsobi]

interesting.the ones your describing are like the ones i picked up.

didnt really take pics of the amanos but i think i have a couple ill try to upload.

[Totenkampf]

hmm, the two big ones look like amano to me, thats a good deal at 2 bucks. how big are they? the females that i got are prolly 1.75" - 2" with the males a half inch smaller.

[madehtsobi]

yeh man for $2 im not complaining. lol. i got 5 of them and 1 is humongous!!! and others are like at least 1-1.5"... all very good sizes to me.

how do you sex them?

hey have at least 10 more there

[R_sustaita]

those are nice shrimp. i dont like Amano's i dont know why. if they had color i would be all over them. the same for the malawa shrimp. i want those guys to pop out when i look at the tank. i dotn want to play where is aldo when tying to enjoy my tank.

[eklikewhoa]

Amanos are more of the workhorse, nothing beats them when it comes to algae removal and waste management.

[R_sustaita]

Amanos are more of the workhorse, nothing beats them when it comes to algae removal and waste management.

really? ummm... then i need some. and they wont breed nor kill other shrimp right?

[madehtsobi]

i heard its hard to breed them. but they just trample over the other shrimp..lol they wont eat em..

[eklikewhoa]

Male amano are small, really small in comparison to females.

My exp with them, amanos will out compete dwarf shrimp for food and at times go after or bully

[eklikewhoa]

Amano shrimp go through a larval stage that has to be in brackish

[madehtsobi]

so i guess i have a female! too bad my water aint no where close to brackish...

[R_sustaita]

i will try 1 amano then when i see them. i my assassins nor rcs are cleaning the botton and i dont have an otto cat with them.