r/Neocaridina

Found this thing today while looking in my tank. Im guessing a leech but have no clue

Asked Ai said it was berried then other pics its got green fugus 🫣 have her seperated for now anyone any experience know for sure. Dont want to do salt baths unless needed. 1st time shrimp owner. Thanks in advance

I was just about to do a water change and moved my aquarium to give myself more space. Then all of a sudden I noticed this 😭

The lid has been off cos it’s summer and the weather has been really hot, but my god, I had no idea they could jump out of the tank like that 😩
Needless to say, the lid is going back on…

My shrimp has had this bubble under their flippy flappies (pleopods) all day. why?

I have this planted 5 gallon tank with a ramshorn and 100 bladder snails. I was hoping to get some sunkist neos this week and double checked the paremetres. 80ppm of njtrate, 0 ammonia and nitrite. I did a 10ish% yesterday, added a rooted pothos, and did an almost 50% water change today. Turns out not doing any maintenance on the tank for 3 months came back to bite me... nitrates are now at 5ish ppm. The nitrate spike was caused by me doing 3 small water changes in 3 months rather then weekly and only doing top offs. Is it safe to get the shrimp now that im at 5 ppm?

Is this shrimp berried?

😂🙈

Such a bad example for the kids... 😅

Is this breeding? First time I’ve seen one latch onto another like that.

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My shrimp molted 2 weeks ago and this brown spot showed up on her back right away. The first week she was ok, just frantically zooming around the tank for a whole day that ppl on FB forums told me she wants to mate but because she was alone in the tank I should get her some mates. Then the second week she started acting strange, completely hiding, not eating at all. Yesterday I got her a couple of other shrimps and in under a minute she came out of her hiding spot, acting all normal again and gazing since then. But I noticed this patch of brown has gotten more bold. I searched some more and am now worried if it’s rust disease and if I should quarantine her and treat my water? I wish I saw it before adding the new ones 😩

What could be the reason?
I do want to add, the colour is very consistent, and i never face degradation in that. But the size of individual definitely shrinked over generations.

Never had any issue with mass death or anything.

Can anyone help me understand what’s going on ?
Or help fix it ?
And how do those breeders get such stocky beautiful stock?

Hey everyone,

I’ve had my first ever shrimp colony up and running for almost 4 weeks now (After 4 months of cycling and maturing). Started off with 28 Orange Neocardina shrimp plus there is a nerite snail in with them.

I thought things were going well considering I’ve seen a few successful molts and as of today I have 2 berried females in the tank.

But last week I found my first dead shrimp, I removed him and now today about 6 days later, I found a 2nd dead shrimp. What could be going wrong?

I believe my setup and parameters are fine but here they are…

Tank: 6 gallon rimless cube
Filter: Aquaclear ac20
Substrate: Seachem Flourite black
Decor: drift wood and river stones
Plants: Variety of crypts, Java fern/moss, water wisteria, buce, and red root floaters.
Fertilizer: Nilocg thrive S shrimp specific fert
Food: Variety of shrimp envy foods, Daku aquatics foods, and frozen blood worms.

Parameters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate about 10 ppm
Ph: 7.2-7.5
Temp: 23.5 degrees Celsius
Gh: 8
Kh: 4
TDS: 200

I only use RO water that I remineralize using Salty Shrimp. Then I use plain distilled water for any evaporation top offs.

I’ve been monitoring parameters since I added the shrimp and everything has stayed stable. No big fluctuations. I also make sure I wash my hands throughly before doing anything in the tank and don’t spray any chemicals in the tanks vicinity.

I’m feeling very down and discouraged about the tank to be honest. I spent months researching and making sure everything was perfect just for my shrimp to die anyways :/

Could it be an oxygen issue? I haven’t noticed any shrimp hanging out at the waters edge or anything like that. They’re usually just grazing like they should be.

Any advice would be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

One of my blue velvets is developing this line on its outer body, I’ve recently had a few mysterious deaths as well, is this something I can treat?

What should I do? There’s about 6 that were in the intake area, I was wondering where they were hiding never thought it would be there, do I just put them back in and hope my green darter tetra doesn’t eat them or should I put them in a separate glass bowl with an old small pump from a 2.5gl and use the water and live plants from the original tank?