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It has been a while since I last updated this blog. Been quite busy with family and work lately. BUT ... I have not given up on the aquatic hobby yet. :) I just got another 15 CRS from a different source to further populate the tank. As the title would have it, the CRS were not the only shrimps I got. :)
Recently, shrimp fever has plagued a few of my colleagues as well and we've been doing group buys for shrimps. We've gotten CRS and green shrimps lately ... yes ... GREEN shrimps. Some of them looked quite green but some are just pale white with the occasional pinkish blemish.
Just got a trio of golden bee shrimp as well to hopefully help generate a better quality CRS when they breed. Will attempt to take pictures and post them. The nano tank has been re-scaped and I've since started a new bigger tank as well filled with blue/red grass guppies.
After months of thinking, I finally decided to try my luck with crystal red shrimp (CRS). Got 9 yesterday and they are all still happily swimming this morning. Hopefully they stay that way ... only time will tell. :)
Well, I guess I spoke too soon when I said lucky me ... a few days back, both the adult tiger endler females caught the ick and one died the day after I saw the white spots. I quickly transferred the last adult female tiger endler into a separate treatment tank (with general cure and salt).
To my surprise, she dropped a liter of 19 endler frys 2 days later. I was over joyed when that happened but it all came crumbling down a day later when the adult female also froze like a stick. Well, it looks like the ultimate sacrifice for the adult female but at least she made sure her babies are alive ...
As luck would have it, I am unable to battle off the hair algae. Currently trying out the last resort of a blackout for a week or two (recommended by Johnny ... a friend I met at MAC). Hopefully, this will help with the hair algae.
Along with the algae problem, my entire population of peacock snake endlers were also wiped out and so I had to get 2 new pairs of tiger endlers ... and I must admit, they are indeed very beautiful. To my pleasure, the females gave birth in just a week after I got them ... lucky me??
We went out of town for a few months recently and came back to an aquarium jungle. Time for some major housekeeping work ... :S
Finally, the time may have come for my RCS to thrive!!! Finally saw that 2 of the female RCS's carrying yellow eggs in their belly. Hopefully, it may be time for them to breed in the re-scaped tank. I guess all the re-scaping effort has not gone to waste. :)
