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I’ve got a few tanks although they aren’t doing that well anymore after my bout with BBA

I keep selecting the wrong pictures and uploading or pressing okay before submit so Sorry about that. Getting a little fat fingered…

John W wrote:I’ve got a few tanks although they aren’t doing that well anymore after my bout with BBA

I keep selecting the wrong pictures and uploading or pressing okay before submit so Sorry about that. Getting a little fat fingered…

Bro those tanks looks awesome. That would be my dream.

Thank you, you yourself have a very nice carpet in your tanks. That is what started out my fish tank craze - I had always wanted a dwarf baby tear carpet. Unfortunately much of my aquarium passion has been crushed with my constant battle with BBA. Damn the LFS that gave me infected plants, I guess it’s a good lesson on quarantining though. Oh well, that’s why I’m into carnivorous plants now!

I currently have 6 shrimp in there; two green jades and 4 blue velvets. I'm expecting baby shrimp soon cuz one of the female shrimp is caring eggs.

John W wrote:Thank you, you yourself have a very nice carpet in your tanks.

Thanks. Those dwarf baby tears had quite an adventure since I got them. I got a little 1.5 in container of them from petco for a vivarium I wanted to establish. The vivarium wasn't having a very good success and almost all of the dwarf baby tears died. I pulled out a little sliver of dwarf baby tears that was still alive then put it in a container with humidity. Slowly but surely they started growing. Then I changed my mind about the vivarium and decided I was more interested in keeping a shrimp tank instead. After that I switched to an aquarium. By then the dwarf baby tears had grown very thick in the 3 in container. So I cut out a third of them and planted them in the aquarium. I was using Flourish Excel (liquid CO2) for the dwarf baby tears and over some time they completely took over the take. That's how its now.

A little update, a bunch of new baby shrimp. Got a pic of a few.

Looks great, how are the shrimp with the fish? I never had luck with both in the same tank. My betta is tolerating some red cherries for now though.

There is lots of hiding places in the tank. So I think while they are still little, they hide. I was maybe thinking of adding a puffer fish to the tank to keep things under control, because the shrimp and snails are reproducing very quickly.