I'm new to the shrimp hobby and wish to get some tips from pro which has lots of experience because I'm scared I might do something wrong.

Hello there,
I see few posts about planaria every now and then, thus I want to share this with you all having planaria ? I used to have troubles with planaria when I first started having shrimps in my aquarium, I was desperate trying to find ways to remove them by buying medication or using planaria traps, but even with that they would still appear inside the tank out of nowhere.

Then I saw one of my snails climbing the wall and crossing its path with a planaria, the snail sucked the planaria up like if it was a spaghetti hanging out of its mouth. Since that moment I never removed any snail from my aquarium and let them regulate each others numbers by including an assassin snail inside the tank . It's been 2 years since I didn't see a single one planaria inside my tank.

3 days after the birth of my caridina shrimp babies the mother has been resting under this grass canopy and the father has been constantly near her to keep her company thought that was sweet. I wonder if Caridina shrimp form emotional bonds with each other?

I got some neocaridinas the other day and didn't realize that one of them had eggs. I have a small critter container I put her in with a filter and hornwort. I live at home and unsure if I can get another tank (I have two already, one with a betta and one with loaches). I don't know what to do, especially if the eggs actually hatch. should I get a breeder box and put her in there and put that in one of my tanks? any advice will help!

Looked at my shrimp tank today to find tons of these squiggly guys swimming in my tank.

They swim like mosquito larvae (my apartment has bad gaps in the window seals/door and I find mosquitoes in here often). So this is my biggest concern.

I have been looking at videos and pictures of other tank pests, and notice it could also be a detritus worm, but these look much shorter than I saw and want to make sure.

Thank you!

Hey guys I've had my tank for about 6 months now and have noticed my shrimp all molt around every 3-4 weeks. However it's been well over a month and a half and I haven't found any molts from my adult shrimp. I have tons of babies that have been getting bigger so I know they're molting.

They all seem normal and happy (lots of berried shrimp too) so I might be overthinking it but just wanted to check. Could they be eating the molts before I'm able to find them?

I have orange neos btw. My tank is heavily planted and I raised the temp of my room about 4 degrees (F) recently bc of the winter so not sure if that could be impacting them.

Thanks guys!

GH: 9 KH: 4 PH: ~7.6 Ammonia/nitrites/nitrates: 0

I ordered a breeding set of fire red shrimp from shrimpy business and had a pretty solid experience and have already placed another order. I did receive one mutt with blue and red hybrid patterns which didn't survive very long for some reason despite the others thriving.

My goal was to line breed as a project to see if I could move the colony up in grade towards painted fire red. The females all look outstanding, but ALL the males appear to be sakura grade, some may be slightly bordering on fire red. I saw one other seller advertise that they sent sakura grade males with their fire red packages, so I figured it was normal. Today though while looking up true fire red males they look much better than what I received.

The colony has already bred and I'm happy, but can you guys give some insight as to

1. How normal is it for the males to be a half to full grade lower than the females in a purchased group?
2. How much harder is my original goal of increasing grade considering the grade of the males? Should I just scrap that idea and try to cull (To a cull tank) when I can and otherwise just try to enjoy shrimp I wasn't anticipating?

Thanks in advance

I feel like I mostly see neos on this sub. I’m curious because if we’re only keeping shrimp then it’s easier to keep caridina.

I've been planning on setting up a planted shrimp tank for a while now. I was going to just go with a bunch of cherry shrimp because I've heard mixing colors can cause the wild shrimp patterns to come back. Last night I watched a video about someone mixing there colored shrimp together to see what happens, and while there was some wild looking shrimp, there was also a lot of cool patterns going on. So now I'm torn on whether I want one color or a mix

Hello! I bought two berries shrimp from my lfs. While I don’t know how far along they are, when should I start looking out for babies :)