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Golden apple snails.; Youtube Movie
Topic Started: Nov 15 2010, 06:58 PM (1,318 Views)
chelsea
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2hwaDuwr14

My golden apple snails & my 25 day old fairy shrimp from the failed T Long attempt. Shame my T cancriformis will have to go in with the shrimp....He is orange now.
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Nice video :D !
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Nov 15 2010, 06:04 PM
Nice video :D !

Thankyou :thumbup:
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Very nicely done! Your tank looks good and clean and those fairy shrimp look very healthy! Awesome!! Like I and many of the other posters here will attest, fairy shrimp can be one of the toughest species to get to take off. The fact that you have it going on is a great sign! Keep up the good work, hopefully they'll create a nice thriving colony for you. :thumbup:
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Nov 16 2010, 04:27 AM
Very nicely done! Your tank looks good and clean and those fairy shrimp look very healthy! Awesome!! Like I and many of the other posters here will attest, fairy shrimp can be one of the toughest species to get to take off. The fact that you have it going on is a great sign! Keep up the good work, hopefully they'll create a nice thriving colony for you. :thumbup:

Thankyou, I was also supprised that the fairy shrimp surrived a 100% water change. I put him in with a glass of old water then into the new water and there was mabie 1 or 2 water fles in with him...Now there are 5 little fairy shrimp i can tell today and alot more water fleas were did these come from??? lol

Also still about 10 or 15 triops in the jar day 3 :D :D :D these will be my first triops if they work, my room temp is about the perfect heat for cancriformis with small light the temp has been at 70f 71f none stop for 3 days :D
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chelsea
Nov 16 2010, 07:44 AM
Myths
Nov 16 2010, 04:27 AM
Very nicely done! Your tank looks good and clean and those fairy shrimp look very healthy! Awesome!!  Like I and many of the other posters here will attest, fairy shrimp can be one of the toughest species to get to take off.  The fact that you have it going on is a great sign! Keep up the good work, hopefully they'll create a nice thriving colony for you.  :thumbup:

Thankyou, I was also supprised that the fairy shrimp surrived a 100% water change. I put him in with a glass of old water then into the new water and there was mabie 1 or 2 water fles in with him...Now there are 5 little fairy shrimp i can tell today and alot more water fleas were did these come from??? lol

Also still about 10 or 15 triops in the jar day 3 :D :D :D these will be my first triops if they work, my room temp is about the perfect heat for cancriformis with small light the temp has been at 70f 71f none stop for 3 days :D

:cry: :cry: Your baby cancriformis are growing up.... :D
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Ooh and the water fleas came from breeding. They multiply nonstop. :D
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Ok...yeah them fleas thrive but mabie that will change when the t cans are in. I dont want my big fairy shrimp to get eaten really, But i have seen a movie on youtube where 4 or 5 fully growen t longs are living with a fully grown fairy shrimp....also it's the same starter kit i got so the tank is tiny. More like a hatching tank they really should tell people how much water one fully growen triops needs.
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chelsea
Nov 16 2010, 10:04 AM
Ok...yeah them fleas thrive but mabie that will change when the t cans are in. I dont want my big fairy shrimp to get eaten really, But i have seen a movie on youtube where 4 or 5 fully growen t longs are living with a fully grown fairy shrimp....also it's the same starter kit i got so the tank is tiny. More like a hatching tank they really should tell people how much water one fully growen triops needs.

fleas make good starter food.... :D
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Yes those fleas will be history once a triops enters the water. Cancriformis are slower moving and not as interested in fairy shrimp as a longicaudatus would be- in fact canci's are known diggers. If you can buy tubifex worms, or even catch some small earth worms to put in your substrate, the cancriformis would never have the inclination to try to capture the fast-moving fairy shrimp out of the water.

It's still really incredible that your fairy shrimp are taking off. Regretfully I never seem to have much success with them even though they're really interesting critters!
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Nov 16 2010, 06:41 PM
Yes those fleas will be history once a triops enters the water. Cancriformis are slower moving and not as interested in fairy shrimp as a longicaudatus would be- in fact canci's are known diggers. If you can buy tubifex worms, or even catch some small earth worms to put in your substrate, the cancriformis would never have the inclination to try to capture the fast-moving fairy shrimp out of the water.

It's still really incredible that your fairy shrimp are taking off. Regretfully I never seem to have much success with them even though they're really interesting critters!

I found a simple solution to add a easy ever-coming food source to a triops tank.... bury a potato! The triops will eat the shoots coming up, will dig for the potato, and it looks good :D
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Nov 16 2010, 09:11 PM

I found a simple solution to add a easy ever-coming food source to a triops tank.... bury a potato! The triops will eat the shoots coming up, will dig for the potato, and it looks good :D

Great idea! I never thought to do that. But sure that's a fantastic food source that would be fairly self sustaining. Great suggestion!
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Amazing video! I love how you did the time lapse, very calming. :thumbup:
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