Mikes 2 Litre Cube - New Begginings...

[three-fingers]

Erm little update...
Thanks for the info Threefingers. I will get some of those eggs. They also seem like great live food. I wonder why they aren't as popular as Brine shrimp as these seem easier to hatch?

Just to let you know, there's pure fairy shrimp cytss on ebay.co.uk right now for cheaper, here . You get 10,000 cysts in a tiny vial, I just picked up two vials for £8.50.

The reason they aren't as popular as brine shrimp is because brine shrimp cysts are harvested in the billions of billions every year from massive salt lakes using boats. Fairy shrimp live in comparatively tiny, shallow temporary ponds that aren't that common, and there's much less shrimp density in these ponds since there's tonnes of predators in freshwater...including triops and even other species of fairy shrimp that grow to 10cm+ and eat smaller species. Also frogs, and in flood plains fish eat them too.

Shame about the cube...I actually saw one earlier on today and was going to buy it, but had no cash on me .
Hope the bigger one goes well and I'm looking forward to seeing it!

 

[mlawson]

Well from one tank to another...

I got the two mini landscape rocks and have started a sort of Iwagumi tank in a 24" by 8" by 8". Just the two rocks remain and there is some riccia at the front with some E.tennelus in the middle and some Hairgrass at the back. A 20 watt light, but soon I'll make my DIY CO2 kits which are required. It hasn't grown much (lack of CO2), but I'm just seeing if I can do 'Iwagumi'. No fish yet, I plan on perhaps Lampeyes as I already have 4 which again went in the fish bag when I bought some Otocinclus. I think the filter is not very efficient for this tank, it doesn't have much flow which causes dead spots in the tank as it's only the small filter I recieved in the PFK tank offer. The E.tennelus is forming runners but it's still slow growth. If I don't get CO2 soon this could be a disaster!

Cheers,
Mike

 

[Castellop123]

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