Wolfenrook
Fishaholic
Little so and sos! Just when we thought we had lost all 4 of them (1 for definite, stinking corspe removed) 1 of them pops it's head up a week later! Now I know that some of you are saying "yeah, shrimp do like to hid" but these little 'fellas' never did! They used to wander around the tank in full view, taking on all comers (including my kuhli loaches if they tried to nick their dinner!). Then we had a bit of a mess up, increased TPN+ dosing (up from 5mls a day to 9mls a day) and a massive replant (to fit in new plants) and 1 of them dead and the rest apparantly gone. Searched the tank, poking amongst the plants (carefully), lifting out the bog wood, overturning coconut caves, no sign of them. So we declared them dead, and ordered 15 caradina multidenta (as you do. lol) to fill the gap left in our lives (soppy so and sos we are).
Then today, about 1 week later, out pops one of the little &*^%s! Bold as brass and goes for a nice wander across the front of the tank! Now we have to hope that they don't decide to turn the amanos into sushi! They are fine with cherry shrimp (including the young) in our tank, so fingers crossed. The one that has appeared is a female (smaller claws) so she should be fine, but of the other 2 still missing at least 1 of them is a male, complete with his lovely big claws. lol
The moral of the tale: 1) Don't use high doses of TPN+ in tanks with slightly more sensitive shrimp, 2) Don't declare them dead unless you have seen their cold dead stinky bodies!!
Oh and one last thing, I'll be wanting a definite ID on the little things once I can get a decent pic of one. They were in a tank labled freshwater shrimp (oh so descriptive) when I purchased them, and I went by the pics of ring hand clawed shrimp on snailshop that are identified as macrobrachium assamensis, but they don't look like the assamensis I have seen on other sites at all.
Ade
Then today, about 1 week later, out pops one of the little &*^%s! Bold as brass and goes for a nice wander across the front of the tank! Now we have to hope that they don't decide to turn the amanos into sushi! They are fine with cherry shrimp (including the young) in our tank, so fingers crossed. The one that has appeared is a female (smaller claws) so she should be fine, but of the other 2 still missing at least 1 of them is a male, complete with his lovely big claws. lol
The moral of the tale: 1) Don't use high doses of TPN+ in tanks with slightly more sensitive shrimp, 2) Don't declare them dead unless you have seen their cold dead stinky bodies!!
Oh and one last thing, I'll be wanting a definite ID on the little things once I can get a decent pic of one. They were in a tank labled freshwater shrimp (oh so descriptive) when I purchased them, and I went by the pics of ring hand clawed shrimp on snailshop that are identified as macrobrachium assamensis, but they don't look like the assamensis I have seen on other sites at all.
Ade
