Looks like a piece of exoskeleton got peeled or maybe squished alittle. Im unsure. Seems to be going about fairly normal besides a little gimpy on that side. One of my original Neocaridina so Ive grown found over. Wondering if I should cull her or it’ll be ok?
Hey all! New shrimp tank, shrimp have been in for about 5 days. Hard to tell if any have died, so I’m not sure, hard to count, I started with about 20ish. Around 23-25.
I found a molt, maybe 2? How do I know if the shrimp are okay, will I see them dead on the bottom? Secondly some of my shrimp are yellow on top? Is this a saddle? Getting. Ready to breed? Hellllp! I’m nervous new dad!
I got my first Neos about 4 days ago. 14 orange sunskit. 3 berried, one saddled, 2 babies and 8 males or small ones. I drip acclimated them for one hour, then put them in. They are in a 20g with 3 otttos. Yesterday I found this berried female here dead, and I think that's a failed moult. Why did that happen? Is there a way to prevent this?
I dont know what my water parameters are, but ik that the temp stays from 23-24 c and the pH is 7.0. This tank has been up for 14 months, with the Ottos in for 7-8 months. There are many algae and biofilm on the plants, but ik ive been doing my water changes the exact same way for a year, and the last time I did a water change was about 2 weeks ago. I dont have a water tester, they are 40 bucks, and I'm still young a dont have any income, and can't afford to lose these shrimp. Please help me and tell me what to do. Thanks
I followed the instructions and im on day 5 (2 days after finishing the treatment) Ive done a water change and I dont see any planaria at this point, but they certainly could be living deep in the substrate from what ive heard.
Should I be doing a second treatment after a few weeks to account for any eggs? Or set traps to check for stragglers? First time using this stuff any advice is welcome.
I love this momma and was so happy to see her berried with what looked like sort of teal colored eggs about a week ago. She disappeared for a few days and I feared she was dead, then tonight she reappeared! But she was not moving her swimmerets at all and her eggs look funny to me, like maybe there are leaves? Please tell me this isn’t clado 😩
I’ve just discovered my first shrimplet and am wondering if he’s going to be safe from my female endlers and the hydra I recently discovered in my tank. I’m a bit worried, he’s about 3-5 mm, but it’s really hard to tell the size because he’s in the back corner which is blocked off by the wall. Despite the worries, I’m so excited!!! My first baby 🥹
When I turned on my light this morning, I noticed there were some small thin worms moving around on my aquarium glass. They move like inch worms? I just cleaned my tank last night... Any clue what they are and are they safe with my neocaridina shrimp? How do I get rid of them? Water parameters are perfect as of last night!!
I am working on creating a 150 gallon species only tank for some red cherry shrimp and i have been getting very conflicting answers on how many shrimp I should put in the tank when I Google it.I found one source that said , upwards of 500 which I find hard to believe and then another source that said 1500 i am looking for any input from anyone who has information on this?Because I'm new to the hobby I don't even have shrimp yet I am going to buy them in a few weeks and I am getting twenty individuals to start with , and i'm going to put them in the tank to breed and hope that it works
Im so happy😊 and was wondering how quick do they grow?
I ordered a skittles pack of shrimp off Amazon, didn't think I was doing it right in the beginning and lost about 5 shrimp. Now 4 months of shrimp keeping has left me with a population growing out of control. Started with 20 now easily I have over 100 shrimp it's a constant breeding cycle as soon as all the eggs hatch the females are bearing eggs again.
Is there something I can do to reduce the repopulation?
I've tried adding shrimp to other tanks to decrease the herd but they just reproduce like crazy in all the other tanks
I bought a bunch of these shrimp online through Amazon. I think these may be all sick and I’m not sure how what I should do now.
I have Two tanks as well as several filters available and proper money and resources to breed neocarina shrimp.I know what variety I would like to breed but I would personally like to be able to create my own interesting or unique pattern on the shrimp, it doesn't necessarily have to be consistent.I'm just looking for cool or interesting patterns that I can sell to other people who don't really care about consistency. And only care about how interesting aquatic genetics can be i'm looking for advice on how I should go about cross breeding shrimp in order to get interesting patterns , even if they aren't consistent or classified as their own new consistent pattern , I have one tank that is 150 gallon and a second one at 25 gallon my current plan is to use the larger tank as basically a genetic reservoir , where a ton of lower quality cherry shrimp will be able to breed without selectivity and I will pick out anyone's with interesting or unique mutations that I like and put them into the smaller tank in order to cross breed and create odd or interesting patterns. They are still going to be pets.But I will be looking to sell some of them locally or online. I am open to any feedback or criticism just please make it constructive and understand that this is my first time doing anything like this
Just got my first shrimp today and I’m wondering what sex they are. My guess is that the first shrimp is male and the second is female. Am I right, or completely off?
I’d really appreciate any help identifying them!
Worms or some kinda parasite?
I was topping off their water because the evaporation has been pretty intense lately. They were perfectly happy munching on dead duckweed stuck to the glass until one of them got brave while I was moving the java moss. I held still because it was crawling on me, which I guess invited the swarm to come pick at my skin.
One of my orange rili developed this shiny white spot along its back… what is it? Do I need to remove and treat?