100 Litre Tank, Guppies, Mollies, Shrimp

[emilythestrange]

Decided to post pictures, what do you think?

One of the Shrimps

 

[emilythestrange]

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[Againsthecurrent]

Nice tank and fish.

What did he do to end up at the bottom of the tank.

 

[emilythestrange]

Nice tank and fish.

What did he do to end up at the bottom of the tank.

the shrimp? they like it around the bottom and on the plants

 

[Againsthecurrent]

Nice tank and fish.

What did he do to end up at the bottom of the tank.

the shrimp? they like it around the bottom and on the plants

No I was talking about the skull.

 

[paul_219]

Your fish are looking gr8. Nice color of fish.

 

[three-fingers]

Nice unuasual shaped tank, does it give the crazy fairground effect in real life too? It's pretty cool though, like it.

Could you get a closeup of the shrimp?

It looks like a Macrobrachium spp., and if it's a species bigger than M.lanchesteri (which aren't the most common), it has potential to eat guppies and possibly even get to about 30cm.

For example, I've seen pets@home sell M.rosenbergii as 'freshwater shrimp' saying they stay small and are fine with all fish, yet I've had to deal with a couple of people who have come into the lfs with the adults in a bucket of water looking to get rid of the fish eater after losing lots of fish.

 

[Miah002]

Nice tank.

Were did you get it from?

 

[~T~]

Thats a really unusual tank, love it!

 

[Carter]

you don't get to see one of those every day... nice looking tank.

 

[emilythestrange]

The shrimp were only labelled as "freshwater shrimp"
Anyway, a day after this post began, both shrimps were dead (3 weeks after introducing them - close to 4 now) And the fish are fine - also i checked stats and ammonia and nitrite are 0ppm...
Got any ideas as to why

 

[three-fingers]

Traces of copper in the water from plants or maybe even a water storage tank before it gets to the taps could kill the shrimp but not the fish.

But from the picture of the shrimp, I think it may have some sort of bacterial infection or something, it looks quite cloudy rather than see-through.
I've noticed this with red-nose shrimp and Macrobrachium spp. shrimp, if they have a cloudy appearance rather than see-though at the lfs, they have a very low survival rate.

 

[Truck]

can i have a picture of the luminare? what is it btw?

 

[emilythestrange]

the shrimps were always see through - i watched them intently for ages! they ate well and loved the tank - then after 3 weeks they were both dead in two days!
Do you think it was starvation ? i havent got any more pics of the shrimps - though since adding the shrimp i added 8 guppies in 2 weeks. they are really really greedy... and the tank hasnt got any algae now.. so maybe they werent getting food???

 

[emilythestrange]

Nice tank.

Were did you get it from?

Pets at home (the demons who have had like 300 pounds from me in total for fish related stuff - quite a fair amoutn when ur 17 lol)


This tank was only 99 pounds though (with stand, light )