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Shrimp Studio I started this page to help promote the caradina shrimp hobby in the United States. I will be postin

Orange eye blue body red tiger stripe colony coming along. These type shrimp can only be appreciated under strong led l...
01/11/2025

Orange eye blue body red tiger stripe colony coming along. These type shrimp can only be appreciated under strong led lights. I used the Netlea at5 . Under weak led lights the blue and red colors gets washed away and makes culling difficult.

Happy new year everyone! Wishing good health and happiness for everyone.
01/01/2025

Happy new year everyone! Wishing good health and happiness for everyone.

12/27/2024

My bkk line I call black dragon..with blue hues in a 29g planted tank with 3d background.

This cool looking shrimp popped out of the black fancy tiger colony, it's a one of a kind gem. Could this be albinism in...
12/22/2024

This cool looking shrimp popped out of the black fancy tiger colony, it's a one of a kind gem. Could this be albinism in a shrimp?

Today as I was feeding my orange base blackfishbone I got a new suprise... this young one. Colors were popping .
12/12/2024

Today as I was feeding my orange base blackfishbone I got a new suprise... this young one. Colors were popping .

Red fishbone galaxy snowflake... the first 5 pics are examples of what will remain in the highgrade breeder tank. The la...
12/11/2024

Red fishbone galaxy snowflake... the first 5 pics are examples of what will remain in the highgrade breeder tank. The last 3 pics are examples of what are culls and will be placed in the mixed red snowflake galaxy tank. Best specimens have tiny or small white body dots especially on the belly section with larger galaxy spots on the head area. Culls don't have distinct body spots , incomplete fishbone pattern, discolored red body, or odd white stripes or pattern.

The purple hornet (TB) colony finally growing.. the adults took over a year to finally start breeding. I will let the ju...
11/30/2024

The purple hornet (TB) colony finally growing.. the adults took over a year to finally start breeding. I will let the juvies grow a little bit more before I start seperating them. I'm looking for even spread out tiger lines that extend all the way to the back of the head. I will also cull out the non orange tiger lines but will leave all females in colony until the numbers grow a bit more.

Highlight on the orange eye blue devils or orange eye blue steels. These have been slower to reproduce but about a year ...
11/24/2024

Highlight on the orange eye blue devils or orange eye blue steels. These have been slower to reproduce but about a year and a half ago after introducing new genes into the breeding pool I started getting more results. I will soon be culling which is basically seperating the ones that have clear bodies, however I will be keeping track of the culled females returning them or keeping them in the tank with the darker blue ones. Even as culled females they carry the good blue genes and their offspring will throw out some good colors.

I finally got my red fancy tiger groups going again. Overall it was a very slow year for breeding. It almost seems like ...
10/16/2024

I finally got my red fancy tiger groups going again. Overall it was a very slow year for breeding. It almost seems like the seasons were off. Last year I had overhauled all my tanks with the platinum Ada substrate.. so that was definitely not as good as the original Ada. It seemed it needed to age more perhaps before shrimp adjusted. Some tanks got contaminated with the water fleas which didn't help. I got that all under control now.
My ideal highgrade red fancy tiger is a vibrant red and clean white tiger pattern. The red must not have any missing red on the body. The white must be clean white not yellowy off white. The white must also be solid with heavy pigmentation. A closeup picture will help to determine the quality of a red fancy tiger.
One of my colonies has a blood red gene which I'm experimenting with to give the red a deeper almost metallic red color. This gene is commonly found in some other breeders red fancy tigers. The last 5 pics are some rft displaying this gene. While it can make the red appear very bright it sometimes comes with some black traces, almost squiggles, or blotch black red. You just have to cull it out and not let it become dominant.

One of my favorites.. a project in the works. My o.e. solid blacks which I call my black dragons throw out ocassional st...
10/10/2024

One of my favorites.. a project in the works. My o.e. solid blacks which I call my black dragons throw out ocassional striped ones which I have been seperating and breeding. I am finally seeing more similar type shrimp in the tank . The shiny solid blacks on some are amazing as they reflect the led lights and make them look rainbow or oily skinned.

Here's something very unique... green caradina that came out of my bft.. this was a nice suprise.. its normal to get sol...
10/05/2024

Here's something very unique... green caradina that came out of my bft.. this was a nice suprise.. its normal to get solid blacks as culls but not greens.. so I have about 5 of these now. I will put them in their own tank and see what happens.. very excited to see if I can get more or if line can be stabilized.

10/04/2024

My biggest challenge... Daphnia (water fleas) contamination and eradication.

I'm not kidding these buggers have given me headaches, stress, and have made my life and my shrimp lives terrible. It started with bringing in a contaminated live plant that had some baby fleas attached to them and were not visible. I should have done a small bleach dip on the plants to kill any attached daphnia but I didn't.

After I neglected my tanks for a few months not being able to pick out any intruders... they quickly multiplied. Soon some of my tanks were infested to the point there was no turning back... no hope.
What happens is they burrow into the substrate crevices and even if you net out the big fat ones.. as soon as you whip out that net.. they know they have to hide and soon again their numbers have increased.

Now the reason I don't like them is because they bother the caradina shrimp and stress out their breeding. They crawl over the caradina and the sheer number of daphnia overcomes the shrimp population. They also eat their food and don't allow the shrimp to eat in peace.

I tried various methods to eliminate them which I will cover in detail .

1st method (Fish Predators) Take out all shrimp in the tank and place in a holding breeding box. I placed a few dwarf gourami fish and ram cichlids. The fish had a feast that lasted a few days. I left the fish in the tank for 2 weeks. The tanks looked good for awhile and it almost seemed that the daphnia were eliminated. To my suprise the daphnia slowly recovered.. the ones that hid in the substrate restarted the daphnia colony.

2nd method.. (Substrate removal) Temporarily relocate shrimp.. use a breeder box and place them in another shrimp tank. I actually took out the small tank and placed it outside in the garden allowing the sun to dry up the substrate and sponge filter. This took awhile since I had to turn the soil until everything was dried out. You basically restart your tank and cycle. However the cycle is much faster since there is not much leeching of ammonia like the first time your substrate was cycled.

3d method. (Hot water bath) I got creative with this method and does involve a small risk. Remove all shrimp and plants you know the drill. Remove most of the water leaving enough water to cover substrate. An inch or two of water is good. Place r.o water on the stove using wife's kitchen pots.. heat up water to where it's almost boiling or very hot. I actually then using a small metal cup gently put a little hot water in the tank covering the substrate a good amount. You want to be able to gently poke the substrate allowing good penetrative of the hot water. You also want to insure that your sponges get a good hot bath in the tank. This method works great for me.. After the water cools you recheck substrate and see if any daphnia survived. You might have to repeat this process again.

You have to be careful that the water does not splash directly against glass because this can Crack the glass. If you want to play it safe you can remove the substrate and place in a thick plastic storage box or bucket and do the hot treatment. Show no mercy to the daphnia because they are very resilient and I have had to on ocassion repeat the hot water bath to eliminate all of them. It's a good idea to also shift the substrate .. poke it so the hot water pe*****tes completely. You will have to run a smaller cycle again but it's worth it.

4th method. (Strong pure bleach) Remove shrimp and plants. This method requires too much bleach.. about half a cup .... no need to empty tank. and even at this ratio you could still see some tiny daphnia trying to survive underneath the substrate. It almost seems the bleach doesn't pe*****te the bottom layer of the substrate so poke at the substrate to get even pe*******on of bleach.
After a couple days remove all water and refill tank. Do another full water change using chlorine remover to insure all bleach has been neutralized.
Update on this method is that when tank goes through cycling too much green algae builds up in tank.. creating an algae bloom in water that takes forever to subside. I had to do a few extra water changes... I won't be using this method in the future.

After trying all these methods.. I prefer the hot water treatment in a container. The daphnia have not returned and I will be careful to not introduce any new plants in my tanks.
Note: there is another method in China they sell a powder which is a poison eliminating all pests.. however that product is not available in the states. My friend brought me a sample and it can work.. but it was not enough to take care of one tank. It seems to be organic and cleans up with a good water change. In the future I hope to get more information on this product or if any of my shrimp friends can suggest a good solution for eliminating these daphnia.. please feel free to share with us.

Hi everyone... took few months off. I had gotten a full corneal transplant on my right eye. Was difficult for awhile to ...
09/18/2024

Hi everyone... took few months off. I had gotten a full corneal transplant on my right eye. Was difficult for awhile to adjust with just using one eye. I lost my depth perception and was slightly limited ... couldn't drive or take decent pics. I'm so happy that by this point in my recuperation my eye is doing awesome. I slightly neglected my shrimp and allowed some daphnia to multiply to become a nuisance in many of my tanks. (Daphnia will be discussed next post) This year was also a bad year for my shrimp to multiply.. for some reason the weather was off. It almost seemed that we didn't get a proper summer weather here in Salinas, California. My fruit trees like my fig and avocado trees are barely starting to ripen the fruit on them.

This 29g tank is dedicated to some unique buce and plants. It's running on 2 dual sponge filters, AT5 RGB lighting, and ...
06/11/2024

This 29g tank is dedicated to some unique buce and plants. It's running on 2 dual sponge filters, AT5 RGB lighting, and CO2. I have caradina and neocaradina living and breeding. 120 tds 7ph. Most caradina prefer a lower ph to breed, but the orange eye blue tiger shrimp or some o.e. royal blue caradina do great. On another note most caradina can survive in neo caradina parameters however they will not breed or their lifespan might be limited.
It is possible to use CO2 in caradina/plant setups. The trick is to not overdo it with the amount of co2. Too much co2 will kill your shrimp. The buce will respond great to the combination of co2 and the right lighting. This is how you get your purple buce colors to pop.

Finally got my full corneal transplant... 3 weeks this Thursday. My right eye still seeing blurry so hard to take pics....
05/29/2024

Finally got my full corneal transplant... 3 weeks this Thursday. My right eye still seeing blurry so hard to take pics. Hopefully these came out ok.

Red snowflake fishbone. What I'm after is a dark red body contrasting with a white fishbone pattern or bonewhite fishbone. This line has a tendency to throw a slightly orange pinkish white though...so right now letting the colony grow before I make a culling decision. The good quality I like of this line is the consistency of a good fishbone pattern and small tiny snowflake galaxy patterns on the body. They also have great spiderlegs.

Red fishbone galaxy caradina. What makes it a fishbone is the pattern that extends from top of head to end of tail. Rese...
05/05/2024

Red fishbone galaxy caradina. What makes it a fishbone is the pattern that extends from top of head to end of tail. Resembles a fish skeleton. Line must be complete from head to tail. Getting the white fishbone as either clean white or bone white is not that easy. It's easier to find pinkish white fishbone color. I do my best to keep this line as clean white/bone white to contrast with the red body. This line also throws out an ocassional boa.

Red Zebra galaxy caradina. A zebra has stripes on its back but no head/back line. The spots on its head and body are t...
05/03/2024

Red Zebra galaxy caradina. A zebra has stripes on its back but no head/back line. The spots on its head and body are the galaxy spots. These also have bicolored legs called spiderlegs.

Shrimp food getting crushed into smaller pieces.. They get spoiled for sure. Shrimp envy food.. only the best. Good day ...
05/02/2024

Shrimp food getting crushed into smaller pieces..
They get spoiled for sure. Shrimp envy food.. only the best. Good day beautiful people

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My bkk line I call black dragon..with blue hues in a 29g planted tank with 3d background.

My biggest challenge... Daphnia (water fleas) contamination and eradication. I'm not kidding these buggers have given me headaches, stress, and have made my life and my shrimp lives terrible. It started with bringing in a contaminated live plant that had some baby fleas attached to them and were not visible. I should have done a small bleach dip on the plants to kill any attached daphnia but I didn't. After I neglected my tanks for a few months not being able to pick out any intruders... they quickly multiplied. Soon some of my tanks were infested to the point there was no turning back... no hope. What happens is they burrow into the substrate crevices and even if you net out the big fat ones.. as soon as you whip out that net.. they know they have to hide and soon again their numbers have increased. Now the reason I don't like them is because they bother the caradina shrimp and stress out their breeding. They crawl over the caradina and the sheer number of daphnia overcomes the shrimp population. They also eat their food and don't allow the shrimp to eat in peace. I tried various methods to eliminate them which I will cover in detail . 1st method (Fish Predators) Take out all shrimp in the tank and place in a holding breeding box. I placed a few dwarf gourami fish and ram cichlids. The fish had a feast that lasted a few days. I left the fish in the tank for 2 weeks. The tanks looked good for awhile and it almost seemed that the daphnia were eliminated. To my suprise the daphnia slowly recovered.. the ones that hid in the substrate restarted the daphnia colony. 2nd method.. (Substrate removal) Temporarily relocate shrimp.. use a breeder box and place them in another shrimp tank. I actually took out the small tank and placed it outside in the garden allowing the sun to dry up the substrate and sponge filter. This took awhile since I had to turn the soil until everything was dried out. You basically restart your tank and cycle. However the cycle is much fas

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