Every caridina breeding setup I’ve seen use aquasoil but all the aquasoil I’ve use from Ada to uns to stratum, they all buffer the water PH to high 6s, which is what they designed to do. I’ve been keeping caridina in tank with aquasoil and they do fine but they don’t breed and the only reason I could think of is the ph not low enough. But doesn’t matter what I do to lower the ph, ro water with ph6, tannins, the soil just bring it back up to the high 6s. I’ve been thinking since my RO is about ph6 I should just take out the soil and use something inert instead but I still don’t understand how people do it aquasoil consider some caridina was recommended to be in ph as low as 5.5

Managed to slowly building my shrimp community after trial and error. At first I do have continuous shrimp rip later they settle down and have babies and no RIP shrimp anymore for one month or so. Suddenly just now I saw one rip it don’t seem an old shrimp as it is mid size. The rest all ok. I feel curious is normally are those big shrimp rip due to aging now this is not old shrimp , quite young as it is middle size. I guess is random rip ? Is common ?

Setting my new tank for my shrimps and sheimplets but the water changes to light green immediately after pouring water within minutes Any suggestions??

I pushed it back in

(Jk, she fled as soon as I got close)

I have a tank fully cycled, walstad that started with 12 monos and 10 bloody Mary’s. We lost 2 to the change and 2 to molting issues. I then bought more bloody mary’s and have lost more, again to molting issues. Now even one of the monos is on its back struggling.

I cant seem to figure out whats causing the failures, Ive measured ammonia, KH, GH, nitrates, copper, and all the values seem well within range! Im loosing many shrimp and in a short period as well, at a rate of 1 a day almost for the last month, (its a newish tank) and really just wanted a nice bloody mary tank. Any advice?

I have a very small internal filter that I want to add to a 6 gallon shrimp tank. I have a sponge filter but it takes up far too much space so is there something I could do to make sure no shrimp can get into the internal filter?

My betta died today (💔) and decided to tear down his 10g since i have no plans on getting another betta for a long while. I moved my year old shrimp colony into my 20g and conducted a shrimp census while i was at it. The final estimated population is about 140 neos and 2 amanos, give or take some baby stragglers still hiding in the plants i haven’t moved yet. Out of ~140 skrimp, i have only One Wild type, who is sitting in the middle of this photo. She’s pregnant and i hope she gives me some cool WT babies as they’re my favorites

I don’t know what it is and am hoping it may be nothing, i found some shrimp in the filter earlier, and i think this is the one ended up in a separate bucket of treated water i had my new driftwood in soaking when i was checking to see if any was in the foam filter. Anyone know what it might be, it’s only on the one side.

In all seriousness, is there any way I can save this egg 😭

I have a brackish and a freshwater tank (shrimp with nerites) and I hear people drop their algae covered brackish decorations into the shrimp/snail tank for clean up and they get a yummy snack.

Is there any preparation prior? Like soak it in freshwater first? I don’t want to drop it in and have the residue salinity in the wood kill my shrimp. For context, the driftwood was kept in 1.003SG and has diatom algae

Hello, can someone direct me to where I can find creditable information on starting a shrimp tank. I know I want a shrimp tank so I started researching and it seems like each website I go to contradicts the last one. I am familiar with freshwater tanks. I have one community fish tank and one African dwarf frog tank, so I am familiar with the cycling part of a tank setup. This will be a dedicated shrimp tank only.

I am just lost about tank size, feeding, water parameters (besides the typical amm, nitrite, nitrate) tank hardscape, and etc.

What is a min size tank? How many do I start off with? Is ok to house different colour variations together if I am not trying to actively breed for selling? I have been told it is irresponsible to allow different colour ways to breed because it screws with the colour gene pool. If/ when I get babies I will just give them away to local aquarium groups or feed to my other tanks.

Can someone help a girl out? I want to do this the responsible way.

Plus (most) of the rest of our 60gal tank

I used to have like 4 beautiful blue shrimp and they are no where to be found and then today I found my first dead cherry shrimp. Are my blue shrimp dying and being eaten by the other shrimp? It’s not a huge tank, just a 7.5 gallon so I don’t really see how they can hide super well :/

Ive had this tank since September and its had a few issues. I waited till late October to but anything into it a lot of the plants died off. I heard that was an issues in it’s own with having a seeded starter tank. The issue I am having now is ever since I added my shrimp every so often after one molts they will die. So I have heard of the ring of death and I do check my Gh&kh I use RO with Beeshrimp GH+ to remineralize my water. I have yet to see one of them struggle during a molt. Also one of my muster snails just turned over and hasn’t moved. It was at the water line for a few day and then just flipped. All levels are fine I used the master kit. And my pH is 7.2. Oh and I just found my first shrimp that is pregnant .

I have a 10 gallon planted tank full of neocaridinas, and now a few little bladder snails who hitch-hiked in on plants. Since the snails are tiny, when they die, they'll probably just fall between the gravel. Do I have to worry about them fouling the water? They're such tiny animals, and I don't overfeed, so hopefully the population will remain small (there aren't that many currently). My tank is well cycled, and I do a water change at least once a week. Can I just leave them in the tank to decompose after they die as long as there aren't like, a huge number of them dying at once?