Just a reminder that it’s flea/tick season, so if you treat your furry pets, be mindful that every time you pet them, you’re getting shrimp killer on your hands. Wash extra well, and maybe even avoid putting your hands in the tank for a couple weeks.
Edit for anyone who might need it in the future: When I rescaped my tank toxic bubbles got released when I agitated the sand and killed off my shrimp.
Woke up and they are all dead or dying wtf happened?? I rescaped last night but idk what happened they were fine
Someone offered to trade me some Blue Dreams for some of my captive bred otos. I have a cycled 5 gallon nursery tank that I’ve kept my baby otos in until I sell all of them. I also have a 10 gallon tank for my adult otos but I put my docile mostly blind betta in the ten gallons on occasions to give him more rooms from his other 5 gallon but he keeps bring sick in the 10 gallon so I might not put him back. Are shrimp hard to keep? Are there things I need to look for? I see quite a bit of posts about shrimp being parasites and health issues. My otos are super healthy and don’t want to get the babies sick. Do they pretty much eat what otos eat? Will they be okay with some of my one inch long baby otos until I can sell them? Sorry for all the questions, just want to make the right decision.
First picture is what they send me of their shrimp, second is my 5 gallon nursery tank. Third is my 10 gallon tank with my otos adults. TIA
The local pet store was supposed to get dwarf frogs, but the bag had shrimp in it. The bag was labeled as dwarf frogs. Manager said that they could not sell it due to them not knowing what kind they are and gifted them to me. I am having issues identifying them on my own.
just put a new batch of cherry shrimp in there so they are hiding but there are about 17 shrimp total in this 20×20 cube
planting and scaping isnt the best but its my first planted tank ever (also got it on a budget)
I have a few pregnant blue jelly’s atm and one shrimp has only one egg and the other one.. a lot. Is that normal?
Hello, seeking advice on what might be happening and how to manage it. Neocaridina shrimp.Tank size: ~2.5 gallons. Parameters for the tank on 4/24/26 after my first loss were
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
Ph: 8.0
Gh: 15
Kh: 6
The first loss was a failed molt I think, they were swimming frantically and laying in their side and had the white ring. The next one I just found dead already red, they are dark blue. I found another one today. Previous ph test was back in November of '25 at 7.2, so that's the main inconsistency. But I've only been using distilled water for top offs and changes. Not sure what's bringing the pH up. Think it's the ph? Or maybe just their time? I've had them for about a year now.
Hey guys sorry difficult to get a video in an old glass I just thought it looks like something to worry about, never had issues before and others all seem happy making babies, I hope I don't stress her out for nothing she won't chill out since I took her out
I did it! I traded some of my captive bred otos for blue dream shrimp. I got 15 shrimp for 6 otos. Hoping that they survive. I drip and temperature acclimated them and they’re already at work cleaning. Are baby shrimp pretty hardy? I’m just so worried since they’re babies that they could die. They’re tiny! Like less than half an inch long.
So I was wondering when I should feed and if I should dose panacur, this is my setup it’s one moth old, 14 gallon rimless, I currently run two filters due to me not knowing I should only run sponge since my goal is breeding, I had the HOB pushed to the front (intake covered with 60ppi foam) and the sponge in the back hidden as that’s the permanent filter; I didn’t remove the HOB as I didn’t want to disturb beneficial bacteria. I just got my breeder pack of 10 and 5 pack (+ 4 extras). I have a hydra problem I just noticed on Saturday and ordered panacur to dose before shrimp came. They ended up up coming today on Tuesday same day as the panacur. I went ahead and acclimated the shrimp over 2 hours (30 minutes in bag) (a little over an hour and a half drip acclimating). I don’t know if it’s too early to dose or if it even matters, I would like to dose tomorrow I bought a precision scale and everything. As I believe it’s 0.1 grams per 10 gallons I wanna dose around 0.12 unless advised otherwise. I also bought the starter pack from shrimp envy as pictured, came with growth envy, shell envy, compete envy, and baby envy. I consider my tank to be heavily planted and it has salvina mini plus frog-bit on the top so I don’t know if should feed regularly or how often (and what to use and when to use it) one of my females did come berried and she’s actively fanning the eggs as well. I’m sorry for the long message if anyone knows or has any advice please let me know.
Parameters:
GH 8
KH 3
PH 7.5
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate ~ 5ppm
I tested like a day ago didn’t wanna redo the test for post it’s a hassle.
For some reasons my shrimps won't let me live in peace. Every time there's smth new. This is definitely a male. The body shape and he never had a saddle. Now this is under his belly. They look like eggs, but they're just off. What is this. Should I be afraid?
I was filming one of my pregnant shrimp and I seen them drop an egg… is there anything I should do or will it be fine?
Unexpected lil shrimps because we lost hope.
My husband gets a 10 gal with 2 mollies and gets a bonus shrimp (low grade cherry) because I was sad my betta of two years died and he wanted to cheer me up (knowing I want shrimps as well). Ends up with brand new uncycled tank 10 gal two mollies and weird shrimp. Then we find cracks and he buys 20 gal.
Gets more shrimps like 10 or smth. But new ones somehow dying but one or two or three survive including a surprise one, which/who he called Oscar (ended up Oscarita). Throws away mollies because they’ve been picking on shrimps and everything because they are MOLLIES. Gets a new load. Buys new small batch but a Bunch of dead again but some of them survive. And gets another one month or more lately and they came real high grade.
But our Oscarita been berried and we’ve witnessed her fanning. And last batch been berried as well. So whose child is this ???🧐🧐🧐 some Brazilian tele-novella drama.
P.S. we’ve ended up counting four shrimplets
I bought it thinking it was a ghost shrimp but I learned that may not be the case
This is the only shrimp in my tank with this green stuff in its belly. It doesn’t really look like eggs to me, what is it and should I remove this shrimp from the tank?
I got a pregnant mama from a store recently, i never knew if she had her babies or not. I just saw this swimming around??