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HI guys~~~ First of all, thx for the replies... it very helpful.. i been to HFF and have a look at that tank.. price was okey.... but try to search a bit cheaper on TM. blueether: how do you breed the shrimps.. can you give me some more detail ??? thx heaps~

It's good to see everyone interested in NZ native,, it gives alot more understanding about our NZ environment. keep going everybody. I was very busy this week, anywhere can buy fish tank cheap??? Trade me? HolyyW***??? Anim*** ??? any suggestion ??

Anyone have a pure shrimps tank would like to share????? :thup: :thup: :thup:

HI Blueether, It is actually very very interesting to see how theses little live... When i was in china, i spend alot of time at night watching what they are doing. We are setting up an environment as Day time = Night, Night time = day for the aquarium, because we all home at night. so we switch on the light and see them. during the day time we going out.. it's a night time for them. This setup not only is easier for us. it also stop raising too high temp during day time for the water. For your bullies, i doesn't have any knowledge, maybe stella could help you...

HI Blueether~~~ Nice to meet you and how are you yes. I am kind of interesting of to see what kind of result it will get also. I been to a walk today as exercise, it has a small river. I am searching any material for my tank.. I am going to use some gravel + some larger rocks will aglae for setup and material.. I am thinking do i need to buy any aquarium plants in . From what i read from other forum with aquarium shrimps. As long the temperature is right for the shrimps, they will start re-production. the water temperature is important. But for the nature shrimps. i guess i first is to get the salt level right..... I am thinking of an idea of how to keep the water is the lowest temperature as possible. As what we know the water will never be 10 degree from the fish tank... except I use Water Cooler system.. I doesn't want to put the tank in garage as that means i will sit in my garage everynight and watch them.. hahahah suggestions suggestions....

Ira, thx for your prompt reply... I think they need to in the salt water in a certain period then will start reproducing process.. what I am thinking is after the shrimps is settle. then i change the salt level.. for a certain.. see will the shrimps survives... maybe that's the only way.. Other members please help me out

HI guys, I am back again, after I went away to China for nearly a year. I will return and stay in AKL for a shortwhile. of course. after few week of settlement, I come to forum and HI to all of you .. especially stella and Dream etc memebers miss u all~~ As i was in China, instantly i bought myself a fish tank along with a canister filter, sand,lighting etc. the whole set only cost me around 40NZD which i think is very good deal. haha bought the shrimp call Crystal Red Shrimps from fish market about 2NZD for 1. I successfully see them re-producing, and give my 2nd generation to my friends etc.. There are lots of different kind fresh water shrimps to buy... at the first time i walk into the fish market.. i was like.. then my second response is :thup: :thup: :thup: As I return to NZ, my china fish tank is looking after by friend, and I also bought some aquarium equipment back for doing the NZ natives. I have a filter etc with me. got gravel ready to put in. got lights from China, all i missing now is a tank.. and I am going to continue my objective which is breeding NZ shrimps in fish tank. I had read a intersting research from Zoology Department of Univerisyt of Canterbury. here's follow: http://www.bugz.org.nz/EntDocArticles/022D15F0-4F96-40CB-AE4A-9092C1EEDD46/web-022D15F0-4F96-40CB-AE4A-9092C1EEDD46-001.jpg they mentioned the salt contain in water of how to breed the shrimps. and now I am thinking is how to get the salt level up within the water... (cooking salt???? chemical salt????) did anyone really success of breeding them would keen to share some experience? it would make my project easier to achieve. cheers~ :love:

stealla, according to this statement, will that only applies in the wild or will happen in the fish tank also? thx.

alan~, where do you catch all those different colour of shrimps???? are they locate in auckland???? thx alot.

is the book up in auckland yet??? i spoken to Whitcoulls and they said doesn't have it!!!!!

\ thx for the info dream. my plan is to just set the natives shrimps tank only. so i will not put any other tropitcal fishes in, however, i wants to grow some plants. and the people said i need to have warmer water to grow the plants.... so i might need to raise the temperature up a bit..... so,, hopefully the shrimps will survives... finger cross...

ok, thx for all the members info... this is the interesting part.... so if we catch them from wild, shall we straight put them into a 24-25 degree tank? or... temperature is actually not very fuzzy with them as llong they have enough oxygen and food supply????? then they will be able to survive?

Dream: thx for your info. and interesting result that they can handle this kind of temperature~~~~

Nice photo. dreams, what kind of water temperature in your shrimps tank? thx.

thank for your comment preacher, very interesting idea that i might give it a try. i just searching on trade me about what filter i am going to get. planning to get canister filter with bio media. saw the filter with UV filtration, is that good to have UV filtration? will the filter over-killed the tank? i'm planning to get a 600mm tank. cheers~~~~

Preacher: Thank you very much for sharing your experience to me, and you gave me a lot of good ideas of setting up my tank. but, the garden soil will it make the water very dirty? Stella: I have a lot of experience about having a Fish tank, when I first immigrant to NZ. within 2 months of settlement, i already bought my fish tank and feeding guppies. most of the time I'm on tropical fish, i did switch to sea-water before, however, due to lag of time, i just feel that all the money spend on chem salt and coral are waste of money. and one most bad thing is.. once i stopped doing a fish tank, my mum would love to give all my equipment away.. therefore. whenever i want to start i have to buy EVERYTHING again,,, and again.... and... so as this time.. being 2 years more, i keep reading the forum overseas about how people having a shrimps aquariums and how to breed them. understand the shrimps are very sensitive creature,, they investigate the PH rate, gH rate, how to grow bacteria using those bio rings etc. they even running a external tanks of water for just growing bacterias to have a balance environment for the shrimps. of course, they are doing this for reason, and the reason is because the shrimps they feeding is about 50-60NZD per shrimp. that is why they doing all possible way to keep the shrimps alive. Anyhow. due to the last experience with native shrimps. i totally wasted their life, which i was thinking was there anything wrong with the setup. but with this time, i should be able to manage. Stella, do i need to have fine gravel or large gravel is better for the tank? anyhow, thank you for every one here. which able to help me out. special thanks to stella. any memeber is keen to post up their shrimp tank so i can have some ideas? thx.

Stella: Thank you very much for your prompt reply, appreciated. do i need a thick layer of gravel, my pervious experience was i bought the gravel from petshop and it's acoung 3-4cm thick, once i change the water for the shrimps, due to it become cloudy, many of them die instantly... also I'm notice about the chemical from the tap water.. what should i do to remove the chems within the h2o? thx alot

i'm considering of how to setup the environment within the tank? any ideas of what i should do or what i should not do? thx heaps~

Once again, thank you for all the replies... interesting adn impressive reseach about these tiny creatures, i'm suprised that they really have to travel that far to up-stream.. from the place that i first catch these tiny shrimps. i only catch in a water pond under a bridge. and now i'm thinking that how far that have to travel to get to the river mouth. Dream: thank you for your helpful information, very apprecitated I'm wondering. the water from tab contain lots of chemical,will that be harmful with the shrimps? Refer from the oversea forum, keeping the native creatures alive needs to simulate their living environment. do i have to do that also when i setup my tank? SGTTS.

thx for your comment spoon, i just wonder why no eggs survive?

Dear all, First of all, thank you very much for everyones help. i think this time i started the native tank again will be alot more interesting. information is more indepth and well explained, which im very appreciated. my first concept at the moment will be a tank around 60 x 20 x 20. with a canister filter. i'm considering buying a water cooling as i can get good deal from HongKong. i'm not quite sure how much it cost in NZ but i guess it might be quite expensive.... i also want to get co2 set from HK, but recharging the co2 bottle is it expensive in NZ? i'm in Auckland area and most close to me is Animate or Hollywood Fish Farm... anyone know the prices for recharging? and is it anykind of bottle they can recharge?? thx all again.. wold be nice to see more people's native tanks with shrimps and upload to this post. so i can get more ideas~ SGTTS

HI All, After i read alot of articles, I realised that my pervious experience were totally WRONG before i went back oversea, i started a native tanks specially in shrimps due to the addictive of other fresh water shrimp at oversea. I catched the shrimps from different river and i puted into tank. I was using the aquarium shrimps info from oversea so i setup my tank at 28 degree, and all natives seems cook very WELL DONE. sooner i gave all up since I decided back to my home country. 2 years later i return to NZ and I AM GOING TO START AGAIN. however i need to start everything again as i gave all my equipment away. I am starting to gathering up information of how to setup my native tank. and my objective is to successfully breed them WITHIN MY TANK. I have read a few post and i found that the shirmps need to be breed in saltwater OR it is possible to breed in fresh water? my first question is. what happen if i increse the salt level in the tank. like adding saltwater? does anyone tried that? From different river, i found different kind of shrimps. I am living in Auckland, i want to know what kind of shrimps i can get within Auckland area? it would be nice if someone can post up photos so i can have a look. would be nice to have some good reply for this post and wish everyone here can help me out. kind regards, SGTTS

thank you for your reply stella. will go have a look this weekend...

where i can catch fresh water crays in Auckland? anyone know?

HI jaimec: by accidently I came back the forum by no reason, hahaa... Catching the fresh water shrimps are easy, just go to warehouse buy a $5 dollar net. and then you look for any river or streams at welly, should be easy to find as so many hills and mountain. if there doesn't have any river or streams. just find any spots that have water coming from mountain. the shrimps are not easy to find but. you places the net towward the grass or side of the river. then you should able to get some. i want to know where i can get Fresh water crayfish in Auckland, anyone know? hope this helps.