Project Orange

I think we have an over protecting mom suffering from serparation anxiety. :) She's still holding. Second female is ready to move into isolation. Will try and get that done this evening.

Was notified that the Ninja's shipped yesterday. Should be here tomorrow. Think I'm going to switch things up again. Turns out all my Red Nose are females. Rather odd because it's usually the other way around. So I will keep them in the Propinqua at this time until I can get another grouping in. Need to restock the Prop's too. So now the Ninja's will go in with the O. Vittatus. The Propinqua and Red Nose will remain with the O. Cocama.
 
WOW. I am impressed with your tenacity. Definitely keep at it. I have been toying with the same idea. I think it is about time I try. Thanks for the inspiration.
 
How do you keep your tanks cool enough for these kinds of shrimp? I'm having problems keeping mine cool enough for bee shrimp and would love to get some other kinds but most seem to require cooler temps.
 
azolla said:
WOW. I am impressed with your tenacity. Definitely keep at it. I have been toying with the same idea. I think it is about time I try. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Thank you and you are most welcome. Definately give er a go if you have the means. That's always the fun part of the hobby. Venturing into the unknown.

captmicha said:
How do you keep your tanks cool enough for these kinds of shrimp?
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I actually don't try to control the temp other than trying to keep it in the mid 70s on all the tanks. It has gotten to the point where I have unplugged a couple of the heaters as the temps in the basement seem to keep things moderate. We have the windows open at the moment and no A/C running as yet. Once we turn that on, the heaters will go back on as well.
 
Po and friends arrived just fine. (Kung Fu Panda reference in case anyone missed it) ;) Such a coincidence that the Ninja shrimp arrive the same time that the movie Kung Fu Panda 2 comes out eh?

Slowly acclimating into their new tank. Took a few pics of them in the bowl that don't do them justice but it's understandable at the moment. There are (5) that are carrying eggs as well. This definately jump starts this phase of the project. Not knowing how long they have been berried, I will give them a couple of days to settle in and then isolate them. Isolating them so early might be a bit tricky with all the travels they just went through.

A quick note, the egg size appears to be consistant with that of the Propinqua, so I will initially guestimate about two weeks for hatching. The shrimpies themselves are small. Just under an inch.
 
Was out on the lake all day yesterday. Got home and made a nice discovery. There are zoea all over the Vitattus tank! I'll try and fish out what I can today ... if any survived the night with the lights off. Think I will go at low brackish on these and see what happens.
 
Well....a majority of the zoea didn't survive the night. I expected that. I just couldn't take the risk of isolating the females so quick after their arrival. It was a tough call. I just seperated (3) more ladies that are berried. Normally, I wouldn't keep them in the same container, but not knowing how long they have been berried and the fact that zoea were already found, I think this will be the best call.

The Amano lady is STILL holding her eggs. I may have to try and find a better way of tracking when "exactly" they get berried but have to be carefull not to disrupt the process. If her eggs would have hatched, I would try and capture the last couple of Ninja zoea and try to rear them with the Amano zoea. To give an idear as to how long she has been holding, there is all kind of algae growing in her isolation tank. From diatoms to green algae.

We'll see where we go from there.

On a side note about the Ninja's, these guys are just simply awesome. I really hope I can be successfull with this group. Every day I check on the tank, they are a different color. It's just simply...well...awesome.
 
A few more zoea hatched out from the Amano. Some eggs were dropped and she's still holding about half of them. Very interesting I must say. Think I'll fish out what zoea I can and start moving them to another container. This one they are in is pretty crudded up.

No further hatchings from the Ninja's. The three ladies are still doing fine. I'll be constantly rotating the water in their container until the eggs hatch and then will harvest the zoea.
 
Full hatching has finally arrived.

Returned home from the movies late last night. Went down to turn off the lights and found that the Amano mom has finally released all the remaining eggs. I know she's like ... "FINALLY!!" :) I went ahead a moved her back home where I'm sure she is glad to be with plenty of food, friends and hiding spots. Looks like only a handfull of eggs were unhatched.

I will begin flusshing them out to sea this afternoon as well as introducing phyto into the tank. Will monitor from here.
 
And here are the latest hatchings:
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Very nice group here. Still undecided at the salinity I want to go with. Tank starts out with (6) cups of fresh water. Started the phyto coctail drip. Adding 1 1/2 cups during this round. Taking a temp reading at the moment.

Next Amano is in isolation.

Ninja's still holding and we're waiting on those zoea.
 
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