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here are some updated pics on my current main shrimp tank

last time i set up a marine tank a mantis came in as a hitch hiker on one of the pieces or live rock i bought.. was ne heck of a mission catching the little bugger...
they are quite tough, surviving in most conditions, even a tank cycle.. but id say a good constant temp of around 25 degrees celcius ...

i have also been heavily feeding them on a regular basis, seeing as they are in planted tanks... the only effects this has had was underwater jungles that need gd trimming every 2 weeks, in the past 10 months these tanks (the 100L and two 50L tanks) have produced enough plant cuttings to set up 5 ...

just a bit of an update
from the original 9 i got i have a few thousand now... ive got two colonies, the original still in the 100L tank, and a second in a 50L tank... ive also to date given away aproximately 800 plus to various friends who found them interesting and set up a shrimp only tank to ...

i will try organise someone to come visit with a decent camera so i can update my thread with what my setups look like currently
then i can also try get some close ups of my prized females in theyre full color blossom
the only down side is that some are so evenly red that you cant see the eggs, you ...

in my limited time of keeping rcs, around 8 months by now, i have found the best way to keep both good growing plants and shrimp together is to use the Diana Walstad way of setting up a planted tank... setting up the tank with a 2cm layer of organic compost and dolomitic lime, and covering it with a ...

Its just sad that you guys can keep something nice like an African dwarf frog, yet it is illegal to keep it in an African country... Its like you will find more Tanganyikan Cichlids species available in America than in a country a few thousand miles away from Tanzania...

I started saving the leaves that i trim off my big amazon sword leaves and then dry them out till they are nice and crispy.
Then i rehydrate them in a bucket full of tank water that i use to heat up my yeast co2 generator bottles for a week or so, and by then they have all fallen to the bottom of ...

yes, that was those you-tube video clips of a CRS molting.. definately some way cool clips, its something most of us hardly ever see! personally ive only seen this once, and by accident realy since i was feeding the shrimp and one that was doing these curling movements cought my eye and the next ...

wow Bill, this a truely amazing photo journal of these shrimp, realy makes me wish i could get hold of some of these guys!
well done on all the babies, may there be thousands more!

my RCS usualy start doing this a while before they molt, its just to loosen up the old skin and move it from the new one.. if you are lucky you might catch one doing this and then the next moment see it pop out leaving an empty milky colored skin behind

Thanks for all the great replies, makes me real proud to have them in my tank :D
@ Neonshrimp
The substrate is made up of two layers, the first is a 4cm deep mix of silt clay, organic compost and dolimitic lime, and the second layers is a mix of medium and fine crushed silica, crushed coral sand ...