S Grade Crystal Red Shrimps (CRS SHRIMPS)
Photo: Author's newly acquired S Grade CRS Shrimps.
Something came about me today. Woke up and proceeded to work upon an idea i been having right away. It has been sometime since i last kept shrimps. The last time i kept shrimps were almost 4 years ago. And it was the much more common variant (Cherry Red Shrimps) that i once had when i was starting out fishkeeping. It was a failure. But after keeping big monster fishes and having new found confidence on water chemistry and the skills in keeping my wet pets alive, it's time.
I went down and bought myself 5pcs of S Grade CRS shrimps. There were Mosura, SSS and SS grades available but after standing there and using my eye power while at the same time weighing the pros and cons (since it's my first come back after along time from shrimp keeping) i decided to go with this batch of S Grade CRS shrimps.
This is how CRS shrimps are generally graded,
Photo: Courtesy of aquariuminfo.org
I decided to keep them in a 2 feet tank that i have recently de-commed. It will be a bare bottom shrimp tank without any substrate ss i am a person leaning more towards practicality than ascetic. During the de-commed i have purposely left the algae along the tank floor and surface uncleaned. This will act as food for my new shrimps for the moment. A "new" tank is always at risk of Ammonia or Nitrite spike, despite having a fully cycled filter, i decided it will be safer to not feed my new pets any commercial food for the time being. As shrimps itself doesn't produce much bioload (infact we can take it that they doesn't produce any bioload at all), the bioload or Ammonia, Nitrite spike usually comes from the new soil or food that we use. So for now i will let my shrimps live off the natural food along the tank surfaces until they have settled down in weeks to come, i will look around for other stuffs to pamper them.
Most CRS shrimps keepers tend to prefer keeping them in slightly acidic water at the pH of 6.5 average. However i am testing out a philosophy that i have learn from keeping monster fishes. And that is, a higher pH is easier to maintain and most wet pets prefer a constant pH than fluctuating pH levels. Which ironically, low pH tends to fluctuates more than high pH. So for my shrimps i introduced them into a pH of 7.5 after careful acclimation. Let's see how it goes.
Any shrimps lover out there? Reach out to me at philosophyeverything@gmail.com !
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Day 2!
It's day 2 after i newly bought 5pcs of S Grade CRS Shrimps. I woke up excitedly to see how are my new shrimps doing.
Photo: Day 2 of CRS Shrimps under Author's care.
They are all doing great! They are busy going around their own business. Foraging the bare bottom for any scrapes of algae or debris they could find. One piece (as seen) is busying exploring the sponge filter.
Now i am really excited in this journey of shrimps keeping. Heh.
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