[Tn23]

There seems to be a growing interest in Cardinal Shrimp so I thought I would share my 4 day old cardinal tank with everyone here. Lets just say I got pretty lucky with these little guys as I put them into a tank that I had setup couple hours prior to picking them up.

-Bought a 15Gallon, Crushed Coral, UG filter, and used whatever else I had
laying around.
-Picked up 10 Cardinals from a Zhima(Thanks Debbie!).
-Went to jiang604's(Thanks Frank!) house and took 2 big buckets of his cycled
cardinal tank water and dumped it into my tank.
-Let the Cardinals sit for a bit, total of about 5 hours in the bag floating and then
released them into the tank.

So far I've had 0 deaths *fingers crossed*. They all started wondering around and eating on the day #2. I decided to keep the tank simple so I could find them if they decided to hide away.....

For those who are interested in the parameters:
pH: 8.6
Temp: 26
TDS: 500obo

Any comments or additional information about these cardinals are welcomed
Also Big thanks to jiang604 for giving me your cycled water and all the tips and pointers, I don't think I would have kept them alive without the special water

Now to share some pictures

Cardinals waiting patiently in bag

Full tank shot

Walking around looking for food

Gazing on a lava rock with moss

Very nice colors

Can't forget the Sulawesi snails

 

[BigPete]

wow those shrimps are something! Love the colours!

 

[eternity302]

WOW, i would of thought lower ph, hehe, i guess i dunno shrimps at all!

 

[slee]

Very cool, the shrimps look great..

 

[tang daddy]

wow nice shrimp, kinda wants to make me set up another tank.....

 

[lotus]

Gorgeous shrimps and good luck!

 

[zhima]

Very nice camera!
How come mine don't look as gorgeous?!

 

[Tn23]

^Yours are not as comfortable in the tank yet?
Mine just molted last night........... guess that's a good sign!

 

[jiang604]

lol =) dang thomas lol nice shots =)
you should come over and check out something. I'm going to be bringing over something to my 90 show tank and I think your gonna be shockedddd =P

 

[Jamit]

Wow

If those shrimps are not beautiful, then we would not go to Debbie's place for them.
My shrimps are happily foraging on rock and inside that mass of pellia.

 

[L!$A]

Very nice pics!! The colours on your shrimp look fantastic

 

[Racer96]

cardinals are such amazing looking shrimp. Good luck with them.

Mike

 

[MadgicBug]

They coloured up nicely and look comfortable.

 

[target]

Very cool looking shrimp

 

[Dustman]

Very nice setup, not to mention shrimp. Good luck with them!

 

[Nicklfire]

ok not to go too offtopic, what camera and lense are you using

 

[MadgicBug]

ok not to go too offtopic, what camera and lense are you using

Good question....I have an SLR and my pictures are not very nice.

 

[Tn23]

Cannon SLR(30D) + Macro Lense.
Thanks for the comments.

 

[fraggalrock]

lol =) dang thomas lol nice shots =)
you should come over and check out something. I'm going to be bringing over something to my 90 show tank and I think your gonna be shockedddd =P

Hey dont forget about me!! I want to come too

 

[killer007]

amazing....
hahahahah too amazing la....