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Re: RE: Advise needed from old timers and plant people

I would caution you that if you use shrimp you can
expect some fry predation. I keep "amano shrimp"
(Cardinia japonica) and ghost shrimp. I have seen the
shrimp ambush good sized fry.


Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:34:29 +0000
From: "Edward Venn" <e_venn at hotmail_com>
Subject: RE: Advise needed from old timers and plant
people

I have one tank that has a number of shrimp in it and
I toss the plants 
in 
there. These things will leave the plants alone but
will pick off small 
water bugs, snails eggs, leeches etc. in a matter of a
few weeks. 
Larger 
shrimp such as the Macrobrachium sp. do an even better
job than the 
Amano 
shrimp in this case and I usually have several dozen
handy at all 
times. BTW 
these shrimp are prolific and make excellent food for
killies. Just 
catch 
and mince, then feed.

Ed
Tokyo Japan



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