Pams Aquatic/Breeding Diary

Sexing Cherry Shrimps.

Pam B — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:10:49 +0000

Very very easy with Cherry Shrimps actually, and as luck would have it a pair of mine posed brilliantly for the camera just for the purpose.

The female is the brightly colourled *cherry red* and the male as in life is the poor drab clear coloured (with a few red spots hehehe) here and there.

General photography pics.

Pam B — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:02:09 +0000

Just some new updated piccys of various fish in the tanks, you can never take too many, well thats my excuse anyhow, got the camera out most days with them.

Both of the below bred by me

Cory

One of our female yellows (not bred by me)

Updated Snail piccys for DG

Pam B — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:46:52 +0000

As promised David, for the benefit of readers David is a fellow member on Fishcrazy.co.uk, no not owned by me, funny enough found the site years back as i wanted to own Fishcrazy along with obviously Reptilecrazy (as i am also into fish) but alas it was taken, and what a cracking site it is too.

Anyway enough waffle, updated growth piccys of the snails as David is having some off me when they are ready to go.

Next to the Adult, nearly ready to go to new homes as you can see.

And next to the thermometre again for size.

Cant beleive these stonking photos i managed to get

Pam B — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:30:26 +0000

The shrimps are out more and more so are obviously totally at home in the guppy breeding tank, and have managed to get some real cracking photos, hope you enjoy.

Quick update

Pam B — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:24:56 +0000

Loads of the useual, more snails, more guppys being born, gosh those elusive growing up teenagers manage to do the biz before i can catch them. But we do have some beatifull yellow fry growing on and another batch just delivered, so its not all bad. Still waiting on my darn shrimps to mate and start egg carrying.

Decided on the other shrimps i am going to breed, slightly larger species at 2 inches which is Banded Clawed shrimp, quite rare i beleive and the males grow claws, i have 4 of these on order so hopefully i still get some of both sexes as they are still immature and not sexable, whats the betting i get 4 females huh, lmao.

Grand clear up booked again for tomorrow, having all been poorly this week bar myself the filters are in desparate need of attention, makes me greatfull i do have all these snails and shrimps to deal with it all and keep it atleast in some small part under control.

Totally off topic…………..

Pam B — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:56:04 +0000

But meet my other passion, although he is Daddys bird and i’m just the meany that does stuff for him.

This is Zazu my 7 year old Citrus Crested Cockatoo, we have owned him since he was 16 weeks old.

Nothing much to report with the fish/snails, same old same old, so heres Zazu instead to keep you all watching.

Time for a general update i suppose

Pam B — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:59:32 +0000

Yesterday saw another delivery of yellow Guppy fry, these are getting less and less now thankfully as all visible males are being removed from the tank on sight.

More snails hatched, oh dear god yes more, snails are now growing on nicely, many have reached the 1cm mark but as of yet i am not happy to let them go and shall continue growing them on myself for a further 2-3 weeks and see what size i have then. Every little helps and i want to ensure they get the best possible start before going to new homes.

Some updated photos of growth for you.

More hatching, population explosion.

Pam B — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:41:33 +0000

Today saw another hatch in tank 2, bang on time bless em, looks like we have had a snow storm in there.

Now for observation purposes im gonna put some pictures of growth rates, here in the first picture is our first ever batch on hatch day, next to the thermometer.

Now in this second picture you can see how 5-6 weeks later those babies have grown, the smaller snails are from a hatch last week i think.

And this next one shows their size compared to a full grown adult.

Some funny pics this morning

Pam B — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:38:30 +0000

Nothing to report really, but as i had the camera out thought i’d snap away anyhow, got some funnys.

You gonna eat all that algae wafer?

Eye, i am!!!!

Police, police!! He just pushed me off, violates my human rights that does!!!

God im tired, can i hitch a lift!!!

Argh a blue one, lets get ‘im boys

1st batch hatched for Tank 1

Pam B — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:13:24 +0000

incubation time of 10-11 days depending on how you count it, thats good, bang on as its normally 10-14 days.

Will add piccys to this post when i load them up.

Please excuse photo best i could do, this side of the tank is purposely never scraped so theres always natural algae for the snails, as well as wafers and pellets obviously.