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I want to get a desk planted setup running in a cube tank to watch while I am supposed to work.
I've ordered:
Dennerle nano cube 30x30x35h with 30L capacity
twinstar B line II 30 light
Idk why but it’s always the ugly ones that get pregnant smh
had a couple males jump out of the jar last night!! water parameters have not changed since it was cycled months ago. completely normal ranges. even checked the ph before the lights came on and nothing!! any particular causes come to mind other then water conditions? or this one of those random normal occurrences that shrimp owners (like fish owners) have to be prepared to deal with??
Also as an update on my last post hoping all my shrimp would have successful molts after I halved my GH and KH, all shrimp have molted and survived, and I think two or three of my four females have eggs :)
Nom Nom Nom Nom
Excuse the dirty glass, Bacter AE doing its fine work!
I’m looking to get a couple for my new tank and I wasn’t sure how to tell the different sexes. ( or for blue shrimp lol )
Hi everyone! Just saw this red thing coming out of my blue shrimp extending till around the length of one of his arms 😭 a little worried it might be a worm! I have no idea if I should just leave him here with the others or isolate him
I’m just setting this up, I currently have a cycled 2.5 gallon tank with a couple red ramshorn snails in it, and a few plants, getting only sunlight from a northwest facing (300 degrees compass orientation) window and just room heat (68-70 ambient)
I have a spare 10 Tall gathering dust, so I set it up on a sturdy stand, I’m going to only fill it halfway, to start, and I found some nice feeder ghost shrimp at my local shop, I picked up five, three are berried females, and the other two I can’t tell, I made sure to inspect them for parasites, and they’re all clean, no horsehair worms, no external parasites, they actually have pretty bright brown speckled mottling, and they’re quite inquisitive little critters…
I’m waiting for the sand to settle out (got impatient and forgot to rinse it, D’oh!) and I grabbed a few handfuls of guppy grass and hornwort from my algae destroyer tank with the Florida flag fish (I’ve got so much bloody guppy grass, that stuff is almost as prolific as duckweed…) and tossed it in to give them some structure, once the sand settles out I’ll move them to their new home.
Pics when it’s set up, it’s a bit ugly right now…
I thought they were some eggs left but they came out in her molt? I’ve never seen this before
I've got a 2.5 gallon tank with 4 cherry shrimp in it. After a week of settling in I literally don't see any of them anymore. Are they prone to being shy or could it be a water quality issue of some sort.
I saw it at a pet store in a display tank
I was just gifted a 20H tank (20 gallon tank that’s taller than its width) and I’ve always been interested in super low maintenance aquariums and terrariums. Where you can put in some plants and certain species and they end up mainly living off of each other without human intervention, unless needed of course. Shrimp seem like a great creature for low maintenance (from my research) and I would like major help as to what I gotta do before getting animals, like setting up and cycling the tank, and what animals to get, like shrimp and snails and some smaller fish, and then how to really care for them when needed? I understand i’m asking a lot, so if anyone knows a website or a book/article I could also look to for this, please provide. Regardless, thank you for helping in any way!!
Aight so my tank plants are melting and someone told me to try switching my liquid ferts for tablet ones, can I know a decent cheaper fert tablets that be safe for shrimps? And by cheap I mean like really cheap since I'm still in highschool living off of my very limited amount of allowance