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Here we are providing you with lots of useful information covering different category groups around our common hobby. Here you can find articles and lists about the nutrition of your inhabitants. Aquatic soils and their effectiveness are analyzed, and furthermore technical equipment and new products on the market will be introduced. You can also find articles showing you how to ship inverts and plants safely, or how different shrimp species can be identified. Besides that you'll find hints and tips concerning literature and more.

Dec 27

DIY – Planaria trap

written by Ulli Bauer

You'll need:

  • a film container, half a Kinder surprise egg container, a small Tupperware (C) container or something similar
  • gauze, mosquito net, tulle or something along these lines
  • cable binders
  • raw meat, fish food high in protein etc.

 

Put the raw meat or the fish food in your container and close it with the gauze, tulle etc. Fasten with the cable binder, put into your tank.

 

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Dec 20

Determining the bacterial count - DIYS

written by Ulli Bauer

Short how-to for making a culture medium that may give you insight over the bacterial count in your aquarium water.

by Bernhard Ehmer, translated by Ulli Bauer

 

What we need:

  • 5 potatoes
  • 100 ml water
  • 2g powdered agar (no Agartine)
  • 1 kitchen towel
  • Petri dishes with lid (glass)
  • Scotch tape
  • pressure cooker (a baking oven will also do)

 

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Nov 10

Aquarium snails - an overview

Unpublished
written by Ulli Bauer

Snails are coveted stock for social tanks, but for dedicated fish and shrimp tanks as well. There are even rumours about people who keep them in dedicated snail tanks. I'd like to delve on those species that will not only survive in our tanks but reproduce.

 

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Sep 28

Shrimp Escape - Where to and why?

written by Ulli Bauer

Shrimp Escape

 

Time and again you find these questions in the forums ... shrimpkeepers tend to ask them especially when they found one of their shrimp where it doesn't belong, be it in the filter chamber of the mat filter, on the shelf, the cabinet, the floor - and much too often it is far too late for any attempt to bring them back to life.

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Sep 13

Interbreeding database has been actualised

written by Ulli Bauer

We have actualised our interbreeding database and is now up to date.

 

The 1:1 mode allows you to select two species or variants and gives you the information whether they crossbreed or not at once. The list mode allows you to select one species or variant and gives you the entire list of species and variants plus the information whether they crossbreed with the species or variant selected or not.

 

Please follow the link to get to the database: >>>CLICK

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Jul 26

Crossbreeding experiment, take two ... (Caridina trifasciata x Caridina cf. cantonensis)

written by Ulli Bauer

Bastien Lux from Skaii and Shrimps, France, also has successfully crossed Caridina cf. cantonensis (Black Bee Hinomaru) with Caridina trifasciata.

 

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Jul 18

Crossbreeding chart

written by Ulli Bauer

Please click to enlarge!

crossbreeding database

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Jul 06

Moulting

written by Redakteur

Text and pics by Jared Green from atyidae.wordpress.com

 

Shrimp are arthropods, and therefore have an exoskeleton. That is to say, they are encased in an external skeleton rather than an internal one, providing protection and support for the body.

 

Moulting of the exoskeleton is a process needed in order for the shrimp to grow. It is necessary because, unlike skin, the chitinous cuticle of the shrimp is rigid and can not grow with the rest of the body.

 

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