Japan is the home of the most beautiful High Grade Crystal Red and we all are eager to know which is the secret of success of Japanese shrimp keepers. No wonder, most German shrimp lovers where enthusiastic about the new available Shirakura Red Bee Sand (SRBS) in spring 2009. I also was excited when my [...]
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Back to the Roots – A comment on Active and Passive Soils
Posted: 19th August 2010 by Imke in Filtration, General, Practical Advises, Red Bee Sand, Soil, Water parameterTags: Shirakura Red Bee Sand
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Volcamia Soil and Mironekuton Mineral Supplies
Posted: 11th August 2010 by Imke in Food, Minerals & Additives, Soil, Tank, Volcamia, Water parameterTags: garnelenhaus, Logemann, online shop, shrimp shop, Soil, volcamia
Thanks to the Logemann brothers multiple shrimp keeper products from overseas have been imported to Germany already. The next big hit perhaps is the new Volcamia Green soil by HIROSE which is available now. The new green package comes with smaller grain size (2-3mm) than Volcamia G/D and is packed in 8kg bags. Soil coloration [...]
Shrimp Soil Shop
Posted: 29th June 2010 by Imke in Akadama, Ebi Gold Soil, JBL Manado, Red Bee Sand, SoilTags: gex, riki, shrimp soil, volcamia
A thing that really makes me wonder is that there is no highly specialised internet shop for shrimp soil and gravel. So many shrimp keepers are looking for very special gravel and have problems to buy it in their LFS. The shippment costs are not so high anyway, since DPD and DHL ship parcels up [...]
Setting up my new Tank (4)
Posted: 17th May 2010 by Imke in Ebi Gold Soil, Filtration, Practical Advises, Soil, Water parameterTags: Ebi Gold Soil
I have bought some Eheim adapter to fix the undergravel-canister-filter pipes better. The reducer is avalaible as 16/22 mm to 12/16 mm and 12/16 mm to 9/12 mm. With this adapter and suitable pipes you even can use smaller canister filters with a UGF. Moss and fern is growing well but anyway I have to [...]
