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lol the lowballers on bca are such a fucking joke. website is ruined with these guys now
true, but not as bad as craigslist.
some guy told me to deliver it to coquitlam for a lowballed price. fucking goof.
and then tells me how he got a 90 gal for cheaper and shit
Oh ya? Everyone I've spoken to at local shops have told me shrimp are the easiest thing to put in a tank. Thanks for the heads up b/c the whole reason I was putting them in is because they're supposed to be low-maintenance.
What exactly does caring for crystal-shrimp entail?
I'm general, shrimp are easy. Cherry Shrimp or any of its variants are easy to keep. Crystal Shrimp or any of its variants are extremely sensitive. I've tried unsuccessfully to keep them and ended up with $100's of dollars of dead shrimp. I wasn't as dedicated to constantly monitor the water parameters as I should have been. Crystal shrimp are pretty picky but once you figure out the parameters and have a proper regime they're easy to keep.
I just wasn't dedicated enough to do it. If you want low maintenance shrimp try cherry shrimp, painted fire red, yellow shrimp or blueberry shrimp. The names get changed very frequently but those are the hardy ones.
OR if you just want shrimp but don't care about colors, get amano shrimp. They're super hardy and will eat black beard algae. They won't reproduce in your tank though as they need brackish water when they are larvae.
Which LFS did you go to? Most of them don't know WTF they're talking about when it comes to shrimp.
What exactly does caring for crystal-shrimp entail?
oh and to answer your question, the water needs to have a TDS of 150-200. So soft acidic water. ZERO ammonia, ZERO nitrites. Not too strong flow, not too much food and most people use ADA soil as substrate. ADA itself takes forever to cycle (> 1 month) as it has ammonia in it.
Lot's of things you need to worry about but once you figure it out you should be fine. Try with some low grade CRS if you plan on doing it right away... Read some of the threads on BCA and you can see the troubles people have with CRS.
i'm cool with the two snails, i never baught them, they just were there one day, lol.
but i don't want a lot of them, and i've seen eggs on the glass... i've heard you can buy fish to eat the snails, but i'd like to keep the two, now at a little over 1cm in size.
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