2 Gallon Jar of Awesome

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dinnerwithwolves

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This is such an awesome setup! I'm planning on moving my shrimp from my 29 community in to a smaller setup, and you've provided the perfect inspiration for that!

What temp is the water at? Room temp? My room gets fairly cold, so I think even in a smaller setup I may get a heater.

Here goes my first planted...yahoo!
 
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pbmax

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RCS can survive pretty low temperatures (into the 50s even), as long as the temperature doesn't swing too much. Granted, they won't breed as quickly, but they should be fine. Just don't slack on water changes on smaller containers.
 
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KaraWolf

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...how did I miss the replies??
got on here to do a little update....

dinnerwithwolves: sorry it took so long 0.o they are at room temperature of about 70 degrees almost constantly. No heater but they're breeding nicely considering I only got 5 juvies when I started just a few months ago. Mine is so understocked with all the plants I do water changes when it's either low or I'm trying to dislodge some of the algae.


pbmax: XDD


BallardFishGuy: lol sweet!!! XD I'd use the lid too if it didn't need light XDD  and thank you!!

on to my update: It looks like 2 of the first bath of shrimp survived (at least) it was 4 last week but idk if they are just even better at hiding or if they got nommed.
I saw 2 more that look about half their size so the other mom must have had her eggs though idk where she is to check >>
the java moss actually looks like it's taken off despite being at least half covered in algae. I am EXTREMELY tempted to temporarily house one of my otos in there to clean up a good deal of it but I have a feeling if they go in there I will cause widespread destruction getting it back out.

I believe I have found one of the reasons I have no more snails visible except empty shells. There looks to be planaria crawling around on the glass. And they are supposed to be snail-egg eaters. I just hope they're not shrimp baby eaters :(No idea how they got in there. maybe they were in the dirt from the start?? 
OH and apparently male shrimp love eating stick. lol was looking for babies last week and both my males decided to crawl on my stick and eat it/off it (I use the stick to disturb the babies out of the grass for a second)
 
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KaraWolf

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P.S. It's official the endlers have been eating my shrimplets. Just caught them chasing one silly enough to feed on the glass wayyyyy above the grass. (poked it till it hid again) Now to decide how to make my population increase faster....Remove Endlers to the 55gal or remove preggo shrimp to my crappy "extra grow" tub (even smaller then the tank and not growing well at all. oooh or re-setup a betta vase as a shrimplet tub. >> and put momma back as they hatch. XD and the java moss is big enough now to separate and put in to feed them too. <--definatly doing the last XDDD they shall have no dwarf grass to hide in!
of course that would require a female to be berried but they both just hatched their set of eggs and are growing them again.


EDIT: ....annnnd she's preggo just today. I SWEAR to the Almighty Fish God she had no eggs earlier today. lol Guess it's shirmplet tank soooonnnn
 
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Chiisai

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pbmax said:
KaraWolf said:
....Remove Endlers to the 55gal...
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I vote for this option.  Keeping fish in a container that small is a high-maintenance proposition at best.
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I cant be certain but it would be my guess the endlers were to get the tank cycling. I could definately be wrong though. I know whenever I start a new tank I usually put a few guppies in there for a week or so to get the tank cycled properly.
 
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KaraWolf

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The jar I got at Walmart I believe. Its an "anchor hawking" 2 gallon. took forever to find in stores though; best bet is to find it online then use the find in stores feature (too cheap to ship LOL)
Pbmax....have you seen the first post pictures of this tank? There's only 2 endlers and the plants are sucking up anything they could produce. :)
 
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pbmax

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KaraWolf said:
Pbmax....have you seen the first post pictures of this tank? There's only 2 endlers and the plants are sucking up anything they could produce.  :)
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Yes, I have.  You'll note I've posted in this thread a couple of times previously.  

I've also kept fish (h. formosa) in a tiny (sub 3-gallon) tank in the past.  I think doing so is unnecessarily risky for the fish and not worth the trouble.
 
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KaraWolf

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Last night I put the pregnant female in a tank alone with some algae growing plants so the babies could be had, but I found her nearly unresponsive(little bit of leg movement) this morning :(Stuck her back in the tank and poured tank water next to her in the net. She's recovered but I could have sworn she'd dropped the eggs, in the main tank of course.

So I pull out the wood, try to find them and not only do I find out she is STILL carrying them little stinker >>  (VERY very glad she is OK ) but there are probably 3x the amount of babies that I thought existed(which was 3-4).

So instead of trying to incubate shrimp eggs I pulled up some dwarf grass for Saturday since I was in there. Also because I kinda want only moneywort in that spot. Pulled the fish out until the dirt and babies settle because there are babies EVERYWHERE in the kind-of-dusty-water and they are uber-visible in said dirty water.
PS Kinda cool and kinda weird that the babies are so uber visible right now. Usually it's a hide and seek game where most people lose (neighbors, husband, random kids) lol and me too sometimes.
 
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KaraWolf

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my shrimp population shall survive!!!! The females have been saddled for ages and yesterday suddenly I guess the last unknown one decided to mature and breed :D 1 berried 2 to go. No experimenting this time >>
 
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KaraWolf

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XD thanks!!!
I'd post pictures but the tank looks horrible lol java moss everywhere and the grass is 1/2 as dense as it was cause the light got lost for 2~ weeks
 
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