You may have mentioned this before, but where do you get all your plants? Seems like all of them are pretty cheap, yet in excellent shape.
(I know you’re in the UK and I’m in the US. Does the website ship worldwide?)
Oh my goodness, I've never seen these before, they're wonderful! I need some in my life now.The other new residences of this 3 foot tank are now home to 6 Pinocchio Shrimps, better yet, 2 of them are berried
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Oh my goodness, I've never seen these before, they're wonderful! I need some in my life now.
So is Maidenhead Aquatics pretty good for reasonably priced, shrimp safe plants then? They seem expensive for fish compared to my LFS so I never go there, but haven't checked out their plant section either.
Wow, beautiful tanks! I also like that Halfmoon nano tank to the right of it.
I'll have to check out my nearest Maidenhead then, and see what they're like for plants,thank youYes and no, I find that with different Maidenhead Aquatics in different areas that some are good and others are a bit meh, some have really good choices of plants and others concentrate more on marine and others have good choices of shrimps and livestock. But hit and miss depending what you want tbh.
But honestly, Pinocchio shrimps are fairly hard to come by, and was pure chance I came across those and after doing some fast research on my mobile in the shop then bought them on the same day I first clapped eyes on them in MA , bought 6 of them if remember right.
Can’t remember price at all but were a little more expensive than Sakura shrimps as was umming and ahhing which specie to get as had limited budget!
But did get some Sakuras the following month when I got paid
The Pinocchios did quite well but they never bred much, not sure why tbh.
I'll have to check out my nearest Maidenhead then, and see what they're like for plants,thank you
I won't be getting any more shrimp for a while now, since my only established tanks aren't shrimp safe now, but there's a long list of shrimp I want to keep (and fish, for that matter) and these little cuties just got added to it, so thanks!
There are plenty of benefits to being a keeper in the US, mind! We don't have the petco dollar per gallon sale or anything like it, you guys have greater access to a wider variety of meds, and as I've mentioned elsewhere, aquaswap on reddit is a great place to find cheap plants, but is US based.You lucky UK’ers...