Android with Instagram!

And so Instagram decided to venture into the Android market as they realized the potential this OS is capable of. As soon as it is launched, I couldn't miss the opportunity to take a few shorts.

rili on Java moss

Frogbits.

Can't wait to exploit the advance technology to capture more pretty pictures.

Stay tune!

Photo Shoot for the Mama !

And so there I was saying the brownie is always hiding, a very candid shy shrimp and BAM~ there she is, at the front of the tank waiting for me to picture her in this album. 

Ran to my room to get my macro lens and took a few shots of her, only 2 of the lot turn out well before she went back into the hiding.

You can really see that she is really small in size and not very colorful like the others.

Talk about luck, lady Yellow fire shrimp came along as well for a photo shoot. Only a brief moment but more then enough for me to capture a shot of her. A little blurry but that is all I have, only 1 shot. If you look closely you can see the little eyes on the eggs under her belly! CUTE!

And guess who decides to play as well!

Bat man mode Berried Rili.

New Batch of Shrimps

As I have casualties from my CRS batch, I have decided to venture out on a different project this round. So lets see what we have today. 

I'm wondering what will be the name of the plant that are accompanying the shrimps? Anyone care to enlighten me on that?

 Can you make a guess of what is in there?

If you look really closely, there is a berried shrimp in there :)

Okay, enough guess, there are 3 species in my acclimatization squad. They are YFS, Rili and Orange Shrimps (I'm hoping to call them Sunkist) The berried shrimp is a Rili and her eggs color are really cool, seems almost like luminous green.

They are doing their drip bath now and should be ready to venture into the tank in 30mins.

cheers!

Disaster Strikes on CRS

Something really bad happen and most of my CRS are wiped out over the period of 1 week. I suspect it is the maturation of the canister being insufficient. Looks like I will have to start from scratch again.

On a lighter note, one of my brownies (I have decided to name the mix shrimps brownies for easier reference) is berried.. YES BERRIED! it is only about 1 cm in size! I will try to get a picture of her but she is too shy for a photo shoot.

Stay tuned!

Java Trimming time!

As we can see, as the shrimps have grown, so have the Crazy Java/Xmas Moss.

Look at the mess before trimming.

Casualties of Moss

Much brighter now.

still a Mess, but neater it has been!

2 Weeks of Outstation and I'm back!

Been 2 weeks since I seen my shrimps! and boy, have they grown! 

This is a mix of YFS and Cherry, look at how big they are now, couldn't get a side view yet and I will try to get one later. Their brown pigment have intensified and look a lot better than before.

Grade B CRS strolling by the garden.

This Male Cherry have been in my tank for a really long time. Chilling on top a Mineral rock.

Grade A CRS by the filter mash, I guess the best foods are all found on the intakes :)

And lastly 1 of my bigger BDS. Just love the awesome brown color on them.

I will do more updates once I get organized and I will take more pictures of the new happenings around my tank. Including another berried YFS. Stay tuned!

[Kevyn]

Recently Changed to a Canister

I have recently gotten a canister as I feel that the bio-load in my tank was getting too much for my HOB to handle. Hence I bought the canister 2211 Eheim which is widely recommended by many. To be honest, it was a hassle to start the 2211 the first time as they did not have the "kick start" function that the bigger models have.

Here are some parts of the filter when unpacked.

Of cause a filter is never complete without its Biofilter. I decided to choose Eheim substrate pro after choosing for awhile at the LFS.

Nevertheless I managed to get it going in... 2 hours.. YES, it took a whole 2 hours to position the outlet/inlet and get it working. And finally after fixing it together and managing to run the filter properly, I took a picture below. 

Yes the whole thing look messy and my intake is at the front, but the whole idea is to let my canister run for two weeks minimum before I can remove my HOB. So that my canister will have properly formed bacteria.

 I bought the filter on the 14 of Feb and today, I have decided that my canister is good to go solo. Hence I removed my HOB and decided to add a DIY chiller and at the same time, move my intake to the back and move my canister to the right. As you can see the Styrofoam box is not my completed project for my DIY chiller, but it is just to test a theory I have in mind. So far, I'm having a drop in 2 Deg for nearly 3 hours straight. 

Below is a front view of my rearrange JAVA wall and my intake to the back right to replace my HOB

A closer look on the canister beside my Styrofoam box.

A different view of how my tank looks at the bottom left corner. My Tank is becoming the scape that I want.

The overall setup at the corner of my kitchen.

Hence after all the washing and changing of the filter, I'm glad that the inhabitants are doing good and happily enjoying their meal together.

Take care now! 

Cheers

Kevyn

Shrimps Fav Food! Baby Spinach!

Shrimps loves baby spinach! be it cherry, CRS or CBS! as I have been fed them baby spinach before, I know how popular it is. I recently introduced this to theo and he had a massive food frenzy in his tank as well!

As I didn't have much time to get it from the supermarket, I managed to get some off Theo as the packet had a really huge quantity that it was quite impossible to finish during the expiry date. 

 Within 5 seconds of adding the spinach!

They are loving it~

Cheers!

[Kevyn]

New Arrival

Ordered 10 BDS and 10 CRS Grade A recently and guess who arrived!

 Grage A BDS ^

Grade A Crystal Red Shrimp~

Upon closer examination, I had 11 Grade A BDS (Black Diamond Shrimp) and 9 Grade A Crystal Red Shrimp, 1 Grade S Crystal Red Mosura No Entry, Talk about luck!

They are feeding and swimming happily in my tank, most of the Grade A CRS are still juvenile, meaning they are only teenage about the size of 1cm. Whereas the BDS are slightly bigger to be about 1.5Cm. 

Most of the BDS are tiger tooth pattern and they are my favorite pattern compared to the V-band.

I will post more pictures once they get into their tank :)

[Kevyn]

The babies have grown!

One look at my fissiden patch and I can seet at least 5-8 little shrimplets darting around. A few pictures for your enjoyment!

New Shrimplets!

Spot the Shrimplet contest! 

[Kevyn]

Cherry Shrimps in office

Finally had a better camera to take pictures of my office tank. Basically there are only Cherries/Green/Orange shrimps in them, I started with 5 each.. Now I have 5-6 Berried female, with eggs of all colors, from blue to green to yellow to brown to whitish green.

Hard to photo all the mamas as they are always hiding but here is a FTS of office tank.

[Update] Surprise ! Crystal Black Shrimp is Berried too!

Molted and Berried! 

Closer look on the eggs! NICE!

[Update] Feeding time for new Shrimps!

Cherry and YFS are added awhile ago like 2-3months back and the BDS is new to the tank. 

 Berried YFS in action.

 Little fellas out to feed as well!

Face picture? Smile!

[Kevyn]

[Update] 2 Surprise Female Berried!

So I did a water change and what followed next were dancing from some of my shrimps in tank. Nevertheless both were impregnated on 2 separate days! So here they are, a Cherry and my only YFS in tank. Enjoy! 

[Kevyn]

[Update] New Observation

Weather in Singapore has been pretty hot recently. About a week ago I started to add Ice bottles to cool the tank down to 25-26 Deg C. There was once or twice I have forgotten to take them out and they were 24Deg C when I decided to remove it. So it happened a few times and before I know it, I have a Cherry and a Yellow fire shrimp that berried. Coincidence? or the right temperature.

Kevyn

[Updates] Kevyn's Mate

Been pretty busy lately with work and only just manage to squeeze a little time for a small update!

I have a few CRS passing away due to a erratic change of plants in my tank, hence a visit to the LFS to get 10 Mosura Crystal black shrimp has to be done!

I will do a photo update tonight of the new boys!

cheers

[Update] We Love Digging~!

Shrimps are eating almost 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week!

[Update] Lovely CRS in the house!

Just received a new batch of CRS, Mostly are Mosura with some having a "No-Entry" sign on them! check out the pictures of my new lovable CRS!

 Sorry No-Entry to those grazing on my land ^^

Tiger Tooth in Da House? 

All the food are mine!!

 A Pale White Mosura, Maybe because they just arrived? 

We Love Fissiden!

No Entry Mate!

Who is this strange fishy? Hmmm

[Kevyn]