r/shrimptank

These are not normal creatures

This is my first tank ever, and I’m wondering if I should postpone my pickup of 10 Blue Velvet Neocardina’s until tank recovers from recent plant die off.

This is my 5 gallon planted tank and its just over 6 weeks old. I haven’t purposefully put any livestock in the tank, but I do have a little colony of hitchhikers snails that I’ve left alone. Up until Saturday, my Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate have been stable for about a month. I put in a pickup order for 10 Blue Velvet Neocardina’s and a mystery snail, and when i tested my tank on Saturday i noticed a bump in Ammonia and Nitrites.

There was a recent die off of a bunch of Riccia Fluvans i was using as a floating plants (I’ve since cleaned as much of it out as i could) that i suspect has something to do with the recent ammonia and nitrite bump. And I’ve tested everyday since to make sure ammonia/nitrite hasn’t risen further. It’s been 3 days since and ammonia has returned to baseline but Nitrite is still reading ~0.25(The highest it’s gone since this recent bump). Snail behavior has been completely normal and the water has remained crystal clear.

If called my local shop and postponed my pickup, but based off of snail activity, would you recommend introducing my shrimp tomorrow?

Does anyone know what this is?

They started doing this today and are Congo lining up to wear my filter is flowing out. They stop when I turn it off. Any ideas on what this could be about?

Found these little worms in my shrimp tank. Are they beneficial for my tank or pest that I should exterminate?

My yellow shrimp is berried, but there is a strange clear bubble hanging under her back swimmerets near the tail. It looks completely translucent compared to the normal eggs clustered in the front. Is it just trapped air from fanning, an empty egg sac, or something else?

My most expensive shrimp (Bloody Mary) though the seller told me they're the highest grade possible and on closer inspection idk about that 😭 but I love them anyway!

Not sure this is the right flair because what is this??? My ghost shrimp, purchased in a batch about 3 months ago, has been developing this weird squiggly luminescent line through its body. She is active, eats well and appears otherwise fine. I do weekly 20% water changes and did a 60% change yesterday to rearrange some scape. Parameters are current 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 5% nitrates, ph 7.2, water temp 74 F. GH 75, KH 120. Other than some fluctuations in nitrates when I first moved my crew into this tank, all has been consistent. No other shrimp have this… thing… going on. Parasite or possession?

Two different filter shrimp. One is a female Vampire shrimp. The other is a female Bamboo shrimp. Don't ask me which is which 🤔

It’s finally my turn! Enjoy my new macro lens at work.

Soon to be a sticker pack! 😉

On the 12th slide, it says " Ghost shrimp ". Its pretty hard to see 😅

Im excited to start seeing little baby shrimp swimming around!

We began with 3 mystery snails, one nerite snail, and 6 shrimp. We are down to three shrimp. Our poor animals were bought from a pet store that had a good reputation, but we learned almost none of them were healthy. Lesson learned. We thought our shrimp had dropped/lost her eggs. We were sad, but then I spotted this little one!

We have not been able to see any others. I hope (and assume? ) there's more!

I wanted to share our 20-year-old Amano shrimp here. It was purchased sometime in 2006 along with two male shrimp and has been with us ever since. It is currently in its fifth aquarium. Unfortunately, the two males died two years ago. Does anyone else have a shrimp that has reached such an high age?

Spider skrimp Spider skirmp

Fat and greedy harlequin rasboras have no respect for the shrimps' rightful meal

Ferocious beasts, tearing apart their algae wafer.

(For those wondering yes, I have multiple otos just not all of them are in the picture)