I recently had one of my neocaridina shrimps berried. This is my first time keeping shrimp, and my first time of course, having them mate. I searched on google but results vary. I want to ask experienced shrimp keepers who have had berried shrimps before how long it takes. (my shrimp was berried on Mar 28, and eggs still have not hatched as of today, Apr. 10)

I have a colony of red cherry shrimp and noticed this guy today. Just wondering if anyone knows how he came about?

I have a tank with 4 neos and 2 amanos. I had like 3 neos die back to back over 3 days after having lived happily for a month. I then got 2 more neos in hopes of breeding and 2 amanos bc they're neat.

I'm convinced that either the neos have some kind of face parasite or I've been looking at them too long. Mostly worried that the parasite somehow killed my first 3 and will soon decimate the tank.

Does anyone see anything on her face that shouldn't be there??? Or am I a helicopter parent???

Title says it all. Yes I was over feeding, so I have see an influx of the little wigglers in my tank. I already would like to add just a few fish to the tank but want them to have a purpose as well.

I’ve ordered salty shrimp gh/kh+ on Amazon 3 times now and each time it has been unusable sadly. Is it better quality from a tropical fish website instead? It seems like all I’m getting from amazon is coming from the return pile or something?

The first time it was likely mislabeled because it was only raising gh and not kh.

I reordered and planned to test to make sure it was properly labeled and return if not but it came with a broken seal and I couldn’t open it.

I returned it and exchanged for the same product and this time the lid had giant cracks all over.

It seems like there’s a big quality issue going on at least for the ones being sold on Amazon and I’m wondering if I can just try the Shrimp King brand one since there aren’t many options from what I can see. Everyone here seems to talk about salty shrimp, anyone use Shrimp King and like it?

Otherwise what could I try instead of Salty Shrimp?

My son and I are setting up our first tank! We are aiming for a heavily planted low tech shrimp tank in a 60L (15ish gallon?) tank.

I have a small bag of expensive fluval stratum granules and a large bag of crushed granite soil additive.

Should I put the fluval down the bottom and cap with granite or mix the two up? How many inches of substrate should I be aiming for?

Hello! I got a ghost shrimp and an amano shrimp yesterday to add to a tank with a cherry and a yellow goldenback shrimp. The ghost shrimp is much larger than the other three.

The amano settled in with the cherry and golden, but the ghost shrimp has been swimming at me through the glass of the tank. No matter which way I rotate it, she swims at me. The other 3 don’t care about me and do their own thing.

I thought it was a tank-mate issue, so I switched her to a different tank, leaving the other 3 together. But she still swims at me. It’s nonstop. I put my finger at the top of the tank and she stops to look up at my finger. When I take it away, she stays still for a few seconds before doing the behavior again.

What is happening? Is it me? Is she unhappy? What do I do?

I’m new to owning shrimp, but they have plenty of places to hide, plenty of plants, and plenty of food.

Are these shrimp eggs or am I about to see an explosion of mysterious snails. If they are shrimp I'm assuming this means they are not viable? It's my understanding they were supposed to come out of mom alive.

Saw this tiny baby floating around having a blast. I just sprinkled in BacterAE and it made this cool effect.

I put some chicken in the tank to see if the shrimp would like it and both of my ottos (who I thought were vegans) have been eating it

I sadly had to get rid of my 25 gallon and donate all my fish, I now have a 5 gallon and I want to make a shrimp tank. Its going to be a planted tank and so far I'm looking at cherry shrimp and Thai micro crabs. Any other recommendations?

Hey got some shrimp for my tank and has been in overnight shipping after receiving and acclimating them. I notice two landed weirdly on it’s side and back got back up but still is that a sign they might not survive the night, a day or few days the place I ordered them is great ordered 12 got like 8 extra shrimp. Got orange sunkist shrimp.

It’s already pretty big, it looks like a male. The tank is currently a community tank of cpds, clown pleco, hillstream loach, and 2 corydora. I’m planning to do a mass cull of male shrimp that don’t meet similar standards. Even if breeding yield is low, the babies that survive will have his genes. And then I just need to cull the females with to much of the dark blue top shell pattern. So the babies may have some variation in color, but no striping no dark cover like blue diamond shrimp.

Also for context for the title, I bought both green jades and blue dreams. I think they bred because I seperated them after and the babies that blue dreams produced ranged from wild types to blue dream c grades. After 2 years, I have been culling and now I finally got one that looks like blue cool aid.

The question is, has anyone else been in my position. What should I do, what shouldn’t I do?

I have used plain black sand in the past with no issue for my axolotl but in the axolotl subreddit they talk about it being bad.. is it really? I’m gonna set up a blue dream planted shrimp tank soon and don’t wanna cycle and plant it all out just for there to be a problem. I’ve never had a dedicated shrimp tank and really want a good, dark substrate for my skrimps. Any suggestions are appreciated! I don’t love the look of the blasting sand but need the safest option. It’s gonna be a ten gallon aquarium with just shrimp, maybe a nerite.