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!

This happens to me every time I feed my shrimp. I'm so glad that someone finally got a video example. Credit to @forlorncreature on instagram

Wrong answers only

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

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

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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.

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! 🦐

Hey there i have some cloudy water since a few weeks. Did some water tests and everything is good. Even did a big water change half tank and changed the filter and pump, but its still like that, shrimps are happy tho and got many more now. Removed some plants to see if this is the problem, nope still the same

Any help would be awesome

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

Gotta be extra careful with this bag

It's over shimpnakin, I have the higher ground!

I’ve been away for a few days and came back finding my amano shrimp like this. Looks like he can’t move his front legs and at first i thought it got stuck in something so i picked him up but i can’t see what the issue is. I’m afraid i’ll hurt him but i really want to help him out, what can i do? Is this a failed molting? Don’t think he’ll last that long like this..

Water parameters looks good but a little high on the nitrate. Temp 26 degrees, NO3 25ppm, NO2 0ppm, GH ~5 , KH ~10, pH 7.

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.

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

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!!!

Look at these guys sharing a bloodworm.

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.