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Scott Weintraub
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<!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } -->[detritus] Re: lots of Amano shrimp I got a handful of the red shrimp from Albany Aquarium. They were beautiful in the store, but now that I have added all 5 of them into my 90 gallon I have only seen 1 of them in 2 weeks. They really haven't made much of an impact, and for the price they charge I wanted the tank crystal clean by morning. From this experience I have come to believe that I will need lots of little shrimpie guys to help scrape the tank clean. I live a couple blocks away from Albany Aquarium, and they sell far and away the highest quality fish and plants, and their price reflects this. Since I need quantity I am willing to sacrifice a bit of quality. Spending $300 on shrimp that don't usually live longer than a year is a bit crazy IMO. If anyone is interested in getting in on a big purchase, or knows a source of sub $1 japonica I would be happy to organize a purchase. I'm looking forward to the 14th when I can put faces to some of the names. -Scott Hey guys, Guy at Albany Aquarium might be able to help you with the Amano shrimp; I'll see if there's interest in a group buy @ the plant study group, it might make it more feasible for all involved. Guy got in a crop of the so-called "cherry/crystal red" shrimp (Neocaridina), which pick at attached filamentous & brushy green algaes. They're readily available in aquarium stores in Asia and are just making their appearance stateside, so are pretty expensive. The word is that they are easy to breed in aquaria, especially relative to Caridina japonica. Scant info on the net, but: <a href="http://www.franksaquarium.com/cherryredshrimp.htm"><font size="-1" color="#0000FF">http://www.franksaquarium.com/cherryredshrimp.htm</font I was at Albany this evening, and the original batch is gone, but there are a few buzzing around in a small display tank by the store entrance. (Guy just received a very large shipment of plants - some very rare, i.e. Ericaulon, Hydrotriche hottoniiflora, Ludwigia palustris, variegated Bacopa, 4-color Nymphaea, Elatine triandra. There were also a large group of Botia sidthimunki, which are pretty tough to find these days. The store is worth a visit! <font size="-1" color="#0000FF">Meanwhile, getting a handle on nutrient is a very good method for algae control; once your plants are chugging along, life for algae becomes much more difficult. Macronutrient dosing is the topic @ the plant study group meeting in February. There'll be starter samples of potassium sulfate (K2S04) to go around. <font size="-1" color="#0000FF">Cheers, Erik Leung <font size="-1" color="#0000FF">---------------------------------------</blockquote aquaplant study group <a href="http://www.sfaquarium.org/plantstudy.html"><font size="-1" color="#0000FF">http://www.sfaquarium.org/plantstudy.html</a -----Original Message----- From: Michael Laflamme [mailto:spic-@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:53 PM To: detr-@topica.com Subject: Re: lots of Amano shrimp Scott, Did you try Albany? I hear that Guy also has some new type of nice little shrimp there as well. Tom knows about it, and the APD had a few posts on it. I think they are cherry in color...something like that...someone help me out here... Regards, Michael
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