Posts Tagged ‘CR’

The question how a good coloration of CR shrimp can be archieved, is often heard among shrimp keepers. While red and black are not that difficult, a thick and brilliant white colouration challenges breeders worldwide. But what exactly characterizes a high quality shrimp? Line breeding in common genectical sense means, that a certain group of [...]

One very succesful breeder of ‘pure red line’ CR shrimp, AlonsoT from Taiwan, has shared his tank parameters to us: PH: 6.0-6.5 dGH: 5-6 TDS: 250 Temp: 24 degree celsius water change once a week (More details and pictures here)

The aquanet.tv-team has visited the shrimp farm of Mr. Yeh in China where ~350.000 shrimps in 1000 tanks are bred. Take a closer look at the video here.

Here are some updates from my shrimp tank Goldflakes (caridina spinata): 2 adults died, appearantly having molting problems, had brown bubbles in the neck before. One shrimp is berried! Change filtration to undergravel-canister-combination to reduce drift; shrimp like it and wander around more. New Bee Shrimp: 2 shrimps are berried but one only carrys few [...]