Co2 Drop Checker

I bought a 2nd hand CO2 Drop Checker from a AQ bro..hehe lets see my new toy

co2 regent

4dkh water suppose to be used rather than tank water..4dkh water will produce more accurate result

I bought co2 indicator liquid from GC 1 week before, still have not use it yet...haha too kiasu

hehe completed the set up... the liquid is blue initially, but after around 30-40 mins, it turns green, showing sufficient co2 in water. I heard its best to achieve yellow colour(more than sufficient co2), but i ''Sayang" my fish and shrimps... balance is more important to me.

The Death of Molly Fish

Death is unpreventable, thus lets accept it with an open mind, 

day 1, shrimps are gathering around the corpse scratching vigorously

Day 2

Day 3

day 4, the corpse is almost vanished and recycled. Nothing is wasted by mother nature... i am glad i am able to recreate a small ecosystem in my tank...

Silent hunters the assassin snails, these bee like snails are assassins and will eat anything meaty. Their favourite food is snail, dead corpse, and of course fish food. Its good to have a couple of these in the tank to control pest snails.It does not harm shrimps, i can even see my shrimps grazing on assassin snail's shell once in a while...

Hardy Shrimps...to share

I am quite busy with my job, so i did not update the blog that often...hehe below is to share some hardy and nice shrimps which i keep in both my low tech and mid tech tank with following parameters

PH 6-7

GH: 6-8

Temperature: 27-29 (fan cooled)

Yamato Shrimps

 red colour and berried

blue colour cleaning itself

empty shell of yamato... my yamato shrimps is similar size as my neon tetras

Fire Red aka high grade sakura shrimps...or cherry pickings....lol

feasting Hikari algae tabs

feasting cooked long bean...hehe

Malayan Shrimps

these guys are very shy and they change colours now and then, they always hide when i tried to take a picture of them

dark brown malayan shrimp

Notes: all the pictures are taken from my tank, not from the internet.Thus, please have the courtesy to inform me if you wish to reproduce them in any way...:) 

NOTE: I focus more on aquascaping instead of shrimping, a lot of people especially newbies wanted best of both world. To be frank, it is almost impossible, we fertilize the aquarium a lot and thus the parameter will/may not be suitable for expensive and fragile shrimps. You may get away with hardy shrimps like malayan/cherry/ yamato but try other shrimps at your own risk, my advice:- select one you prefer most of have 2 tanks:- 1 aquarium for aquascape and 1 aquarium for shrimps....hehehe or even more tanks ...LOL