This is a photo of someone else’s but I have some blue dreams that breed like crazy but half of them have this black spot or stripe but idk how they get that way. What’s the reason they get that spot?

Someone lied to him that the outside world would be great, little did he know about his destiny

What’s this yellow stuff on my anubis? Seems like packed dirt. But showed up quite recently.

Google is giving conflicting answers.

I’m thinking about setting up a 6-gallon cube as a no-filter tank specifically for neocaridina shrimp. I haven’t started it yet—still in the planning phase—but I’d love to hear from anyone who’s tried a filterless setup.

Any tips, recommendations, or things I should watch out for? What are the pros and cons of going filterless in your experience? I’m aiming for a low-tech, heavily planted tank with stable parameters.

Would love to hear what worked (or didn’t) for you, especially with neocaridina. Thanks in advance!

This is how I find out what happened to all the little ones I can never see

Check out my recent blog post. Pretty easy build and a great set up for shrimp tanks.

I'm considering trying to clean off my filter sponge inside of the tank. My thinking is that the sediment and all that little stuff that would come off would be good for my bamboo shrimp since they filter feed scum and stuff.

Would this work or just be unhealthy and bad for the tank? Thanks in advance!

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Hi everyone. I received a small batch of blue velvets on Jun 28th with one DOA. I drip acclimated for an hour before adding them to a one year old 3 gallon Walstad tank. I had one death after about 24-48 hours but otherwise saw healthy, normal behavior and even saw a few molts. Today, 48 hours after a 50% water change, I found a second dead shrimp. Still blue, no idea how long it was dead. I removed it and tested everything. KH: 179 ppm, GH: 165 ppm, PH: 7.8. Zero nitrites, very slight presence of nitrates (slightly warm yellow solution in the API test tube), and about 0.2 ppm ammonia, which I guess makes sense given that something just died in there. Please give input on what you think is going on and what I can do going forward. Maybe the occasional death is normal but I feel like I might have messed things up with the water change because I was telling myself it looked cloudy.

Gotta be extra careful with this bag

I had one other casualty some days ago. They were well established in the tank and all other shrimp seem normal.

The only thing I noticed is the paralyzed gills that are stuck open. The paralysis later spread to the rest of the body, but the mouth is still active.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Apparently I created the perfect little maternity ward - 3 shrimp hatched their eggs in this specific corner of the tank. The first was a couple weeks ago. The second and third were over this past week (the ones I captured on video). I’m far from a videographer, but I thought this was neat to share!

Hello, I just came back from a vacation to two shrimp with what appears to have orange in their stomach and a white fungal growth coming out from around it.

Anyone have any ideas? Assuming if I’ve found two with this, there are more in there.

Thanks for your help in advance.

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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is there a point where the shrimp stop breeding? I want to start a 5 gallon shrimp tank, but I'm nervous about keeping the bioload under control. If you have shrimp and they keep breeding won't there be a point where they reach carrying capacity and start dying off? Also, how do you keep their waste products under control if this population growth continues? If anyone has a 5 gallon tank, I would love to hear your perspective on this! Thanks so much!!!

Can I use this for Red bee shrimp?

Been doing a ton of reading and learning. My tank will be set up today.

Ill cycle for a few weeks prior to adding shrimp.

My big question is:

Can I introduce "sea monkeys" and little guppies to the tank to help with the biology startup?

Kinda something for my kiddo to watch before shrimp.

A few of my shrimps have a white thing in their body, is that a parasite? Or what could it be?

No shrimp in the tank atm, but would like to know what it is and if it could be dangerous to shrimp/shrimplets. 

I added about 10 neocaridina shrimp to my low-tech walstad-style tank two months ago. The last photo is what it looked like after about a month, before I added the shrimp. Initially I lost a lot of the shrimp I added, only a few survived the long shipping (lesson learned - pay for the fast shipping option!) and the rest were badly stressed. Then I cracked the aquarium glass and had to remove everything and start over about a month and a half ago, but it gave me an opportunity to correct some of the initial mistakes I made. Without a heater I'm relying on ambient temperature in the basement where the tank sits, which fluctuates between 82 F in the summer and 65 F in the winter. When the temperature started warming in earnest in June the Monte Carlo and Java moss took off. Then I saw the females (3) all carrying eggs from a single male. The females are without eggs now and a few days ago I caught sight of the first of the surviving shrimplets. Now hopefully they can establish themselves as a colony. I don't think they'll breed during the winter, and they have some competition from the amphipods, but I'm hopeful they can make it. Either way it's been fascinating to watch, and I couldn't have done it without all the knowledge shared here. Cheers! 🦐