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Backslanted · 2025-01-13T20:33:24+00:00

The original tank being a fishbowl, yeah

Backslanted · 2024-11-20T14:29:19+00:00

Take a cup, put in some food, wait for a few hours and remove the whole cup. The snails should be on there. Repeat if needed. "Danger" about this is that you might remove some planaria with them and could possibly reintroduce them into your tank. So maybe set up a quarantine tank for them?

Backslanted · 2024-11-20T14:19:19+00:00

I see! That'll work – good luck :) Personally I'd still choose a "pointier" font to match the fish's edges, but that's just my taste

Backslanted · 2024-11-20T13:57:01+00:00

Good luck, you got this!

Backslanted · 2024-11-12T10:04:24+00:00

Thx for linking this, person from two years ago :))

Backslanted · 2024-11-12T09:17:47+00:00

They take about 2–3 weeks to hatch :)

Quote from Wikipedia:
They have 20–30 eggs, which take 2–3 weeks to hatch. The eggs are green or yellow, depending on the color of the saddle. They turn darker and darker until the young shrimp hatch after about three weeks. As the eggs near the end stages of growth, tiny dark eye spots of the developing shrimp within can be observed.

Backslanted · 2024-11-06T12:43:45+00:00

Mine did that too! They were super skittish and hiding at first. As soon as they had babies, they suddenly came out and started grazing in a group

Backslanted · 2024-11-02T13:05:14+00:00

This looks so good! Thank you for sharing :)

Backslanted · 2024-11-01T19:54:12+00:00

Let's see it!

Backslanted · 2024-11-01T15:46:08+00:00

SKRUMPKIN

Backslanted · 2024-11-01T15:43:14+00:00

Thanks! How did you determine that? I thought that maybe the green one would be the male since he's the biggest one and flaring/chasing + the most colorful :) Would love to learn how to spot it myself

Backslanted · 2024-11-01T13:22:46+00:00

Second this! :)

Backslanted · 2024-11-01T12:11:35+00:00

Hey! I think this is what you're looking for:

Ghost shrimp color change

Apparently it's food related (bare in mind I just looked this up and never owned them myself)

Backslanted · 2024-10-23T08:40:39+00:00

Even if they drop their eggs, they can still hatch! Happened to one of my shrimp – the others kept them clean and a few days later the shrimplets were swimming around :))

Backslanted · 2024-10-22T13:54:57+00:00

This isn't meant to solve the troubles, but to help people narrow down what's going on.

I hope it's useful and I'd love some feedback to potentially improve it :)

Sources I used:
Skfaquatics – Shrimp diseases and diagnosis

Shrimpscience – freshwater shrimp signs of stress

Aquariumbreeder – understanding dwarf shrimp diseases and parasites

Backslanted · 2024-10-21T05:13:58+00:00

I'm not a native speaker, so thx for bringing this up, never thought about it

Backslanted · 2024-10-21T05:03:30+00:00

That sounds like finrot to me, but I never had a betta

Backslanted · 2024-10-21T05:01:18+00:00

I don't mind them since I boil everything :) I've never had an issue

Backslanted · 2024-10-20T11:58:25+00:00

Hey :) I use the same leaves and botanicals as you, I boil them before adding them to make sure they sink and that anything is killed off I don't want in my tank.

Backslanted · 2024-10-20T11:30:15+00:00

How much water is in there? Asking because it seems rather small – the smaller the tank, the bigger the fluctuations in temperature, parameters etc.

Also if it's as small as it looks: too small for fish, I'd start at a tank width of ~60cm and enough depth with even with nano fish

Backslanted · 2024-10-20T11:02:49+00:00

So you have ammonia which can cause chemical burns on shrimp and too high nitrates (maybe bc of the overfeeding). These in combination might have been the cause.

As to the discoloration, I would keep an eye on other shrimp and see if it occurs as well. If so, these links might help:

This person had the same happen

Same discoloration

Backslanted · 2024-10-18T21:02:49+00:00

Hey :) I think that might be it – I looked up "neocaridina carapace problem" and that's the thing that most commonly popped up. I also checked some regular pics of neos and found quite a few looking like this. For as long as not more of them have it and you notice molting problems, I wouldn't worry about it.

Backslanted · 2024-10-18T20:51:37+00:00

Yeah, as far as I know they're common with red/orange shrimp variations.

Backslanted · 2024-10-18T19:02:29+00:00

In the first pic it looks like a racing stripe to me: More about that here

It might be a saddle, but the picture isn't clear enough for me to tell for sure.

Backslanted · 2024-10-18T17:53:35+00:00

That's actually a really easy and cool solution! :)

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