r/shrimptank

Does anyone else have a true micro shrimp factory? This 2.5g just goes nuts with them every time I turn around I see more and more tiny babies.

He’s so silly, I love him 🦐♥️

I've heard that my shrimp with this similar sort of coloring have more of the 'wild' blood and i guess i was just wondering if they have genetics that makes them bigger, too. one of them has amassed about 1in in length.

and is there anything else that sets them apart from the rest? or just colors mostly.

Everything in my tank has died off and I’m really hoping someone might be able to help me figure out why.

I set this tank up a couple of months ago (there’s a previous post with pics), and once it had cycled I added a dozen Bloody Mary shrimp. Lost a couple in the first few days, but the rest were fine—even had a couple of visible and healthy moults once they’d settled in.

A couple of weeks later I bought two ramshorn snails from a reputable LFS, but they died within 48hrs of each other a week or so later. Not before laying eggs, tho—I’ve now got tiny baby snails making themselves at home in the tank.

About a week ago, three shrimp died without warning. No signs of disease, they just lost the ability to stay upright just before they died (happened really fast).

Parameters were checked at this point:

ph - 7.5

NO3 - 0

NO2 - 0

KH - 6

GH - 8

Two days ago I woke up to five more deaths. One of them had looked suspiciously like having the white ring of death on it the day before, so I checked parameters again and everything was exactly the same as before - nothing at all to indicate a problem.

This left me with two sole survivors. One of them was berried, so I did a roughly 40% water change using Seachem Prime in the hope it would help and just crossed everything that she’d keep going long enough for me to at least have some replacement babies. It wasn’t to be - this morning I found both remaining shrimp dead in the tank. Again, no sign of disease, just gone.

I currently still have snail babies wandering around in there, so assume it’s unlikely to be anything that’s affecting the water itself. The only thing I’d noticed is new mould on a piece of driftwood and also on the leaves of a buce (see pics—apols for terrible quality), but I don’t know enough to know if that might be an issue.

Substrate is potting compost with a sand and gravel cap, and the endless plants in there are growing well (although surface plants don’t seem to like it for some reason, not sure if that’s relevant). I’m happy to break it down and remove the substrate if that might be the issue (most of the plants are floaters or epiphytes so can be transferred easily).

I obviously want to restart a shrimp colony at some point, but am loathe to do so until I’ve figured out what went wrong. And I’m feeling pretty crap as a failed shrimp momma!

Any ideas?

Hi guys, this Is my First tank ever. I've started cycling yesterday and planning to get some neocaridina at the end of the cycle. I fear there isn't enough plants, there are some Java moss, some egeria and limnophila.

Since i'm new, do you have any tips or tell me something I should care about? I feel a bit scary, i dont wanna let them die for any error.

Sorry for bad english and thanks for any advice

Hellooo everyone! I have an empty 54L tank, with 2 filters and one air pump and one heater

I want to own shrimp if possible but i don't want to mistreat them or have improper care for them so i decided to ask here for tips and help

Bit of backstory: i owned a few goldfish some years back when i was younger and had no experience, they unfortunately passed and i took a step back from trying fish-keeping or anything aquarium related since i didn't have the funds or enough mental maturity to fully understand why things have to be done a certain way when starting a fish tank

I would really like some shrimp but only if possible, as im writing this post ive put water into the tank and turned on both filters (the exact filters i have are posted in the pictures above) + added some aquarium fine sand that i rinsed about 6 times and now im letting the filters do their thing.

I know there's a cycling process that needs to be done before adding any life to your tank but i don't know exactly what i need to do besides letting the filters run for a few weeks and also adding water conditioner. [Would like to mention that the filters have some sort of established beneficial bacterias in them since they've been used in the tank when housing a turtle]

(Also i live in romania in case that's relevant for the water quality and chlorines)

I could use any type of care guide or personal experiences in shrimp keeping, plant recommendations and decor and also perimeters. I am not rushing into getting shrimp especially since i don't have experience and i don't want them to die because of improper care

I think that's all i can think of right now. Thank you for your help and time! 🤗

Not gonna get into it but I had a really negative experience earlier. And it made me reflect on how much I love subs like this, where everyone is just chill and nice.

So if you’re reading this, thanks for making this a positive place :)

(Included some of my lil shrimpies too)

Taken in a little cave pond in Long Island Bahamas, called shrimp hole. They almost look like shrimp from a tank (I used to have neos…) but they have really long antennae. There were thousands of them! Really neat to see.

I REALLY don’t want them all to die. I don’t know if there is any way to save them though.

There are so many of them. I transferred as many as I could into a jar with their original water and submerged it into 74° water with a heater to acclimate to the temperature.

I’m currently drip acclimating the adult shrimp.

Water parameters of the tank are currently being tested and will be put in replies

I got my first online order of shrimp today. 2 of them have some white fungus looking stuff on the side. I did a salt dip on one and quarantined. I will have to catch the other one tomorrow. Anyone have a diagnosis? How often to do salt dip before going back in the tank?

It’s a 3-gallon, so I understand if it might be small for shrimp. It’s also just been filled so the lifelessness and debris will be handled, and there will be upgrades to the light eventually. And after looking at the picture my fluval is NOT even on the bottom 😭.

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i wonder what she’s talking about

Undulating body. Can’t tell shape of head, but last photo shows the best screen grab from a video I could get. Seems to have a back “foot” pad sort of thing at the end of it that clings to glass/anchors to substrate. I’ve sucked a few out over weeks but not sure if I need to bring out the big guns.

I also have tons of fine detritus worms. But this guy is on another level.

I have like 4-5 girls who often hang out together harvesting, ya know, whatever it is they’re grabbing. They’re all heavily berried and I feel so bad that they work so hard and take such good care of their shrimp bebehs but they won’t live!