Easy way of catching shrimps II - free shrimp trap Mark II

Hello all,
I've already showed one simple type of trap that works well with catching shrimps (RCS), scuds and snails. Here is the designs for that one.
This is another type, even easier and perhaps cheaper. It works on the same principles, and the most difficult element in building one is to find a suitable stone :-). I prefer this one at the moment because it it is better at catching snails, and should a small curious fish get trapped (guppies are great at this) it is easier to liberate it.
Picture guide:

 Any type of plastic bottle is cut into two parts. A stone is put into the bottom part. The top is inserted into the bottom, tightly. And, presto, the trap is done.

 Put a few tasty morsels into the trap and within half an hour a bunch of shrimps, snails, and scuds will have colelcted inside it.

 This is after 45 minutes - at least twenty RCS shrimp, in addition to a few snails and scuds. That means it is feeding time for the larger fish :-).

All the best,
Kasper

Dwarf Puffer tank - 5 gal nano tank

Hello all,
the last of the three nano tanks is devoted to the wonderful little dwarf puffer - Carinotetraodon travancoricus. This has got to be one of the most character-filled fish I've ever had the pleasure to observe. It does not swim - it floats :-).

The tank today

Details: 20 l Dennerle Nano Aquarium, small Dennerle filter and 11W lamp. No heating.
Sulawesi Black gravel with a few roots etc.


Site:

Inhabitants:
 Carinotetraodon travancoricus (Dwarf puffer):

 Hymenochirus boettgeri (African dwarf frog)

Turned out these little froggies are the perfect tank mates for dwarf puffers...

 Epiplatys annulatus

The tank also used to house a small group of Epiplatys annulatus, but I couldnt keep them alive for longer than half a year. Beautiful fish.

Older pictures:

All the best,
Tokasper

Cryptocoryne Country - 5 gal nano aquarium

Hello all,
Next to the Shrimpfarm nano aquarium is its twin, the Cryptocoryne Country. It has housed a lot of different fish, from Aphyosemion australe Killis to Tateurndina ocellicauda. Today there is a single Betta splendens swimming around in the tank (with several shrimps and snails as company, I do believe there's even a small Heterandria formosa surviving the hunting tendencies of the Betta.
Its a nice little planted Nano Aquarium, plenty of cover for the Betta, which seems very happy and produces a nest every week, although it has never seen a female.
I know Betta owners normally give their fishes names, but no name has yet appeared to suit the pretty Betta.

Details: 20 l Dennerle Nano Aquarium, small Dennerle filter and 11W lamp. No heating.
Black gravel with a few roots etc.
Site:

 The Blue Betta splendens:

Big, fat Betta - will eat any shrimp, insect or mosquito it can catch!

Pictures from the last years:

 

All the best,
tokasper

Shrimpfarm - 5 gal fish tank

Hello all,
I've been lucky enough to persuade my wife to let me have one of the windowsills in the living room. I began with one medium Nano aquarium (20l / 5 gal) but this soon become two and then three aquariums.
This is the oldest one and is now almost two years old in its current 'scape'.
Details: 20 l Dennerle Nano Aquarium, small Dennerle filter and 11W lamp. No heating.
Sulawesi Black gravel with a few roots etc.
Plants: Hydrocotyle leucocephala, Taxiphyllum spec., (and used to have 2x Cryptogryne wendtii). the grassy steppes or lawns in front are made by sowing Cladophora (a nice type of green algae) onto pieces of slate.
Inhabitants:
Boraras brigittae (down to five of the original ten)
Heterandria formosa (somewhere between eigth and fifteen)
Numerous Neocaridina heteropoda (RCS)
and various snails: Anatome helenas and Marisa cornuarietis.

 The threesome of aquariums :-):

 Various incarnations from the past two years:

Boraras brigittae

Boraras brigittae

Boraras brigittae

Neocaridina heteropoda, RCS

From back when I tried to combine the tank with an orchid - didn't work out too well. Maybe I'll describe the failures of that experiment sometime.

 All the best,
Tokasper