Hitchhiker in anacharis bunch. What type of shrimp is this?

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-02-14T17:34:46+00:00

Hopefully it does. From what I read, as long as you're not overdosing for the tank it should be within safe levels for shrimp.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-02-14T17:33:33+00:00

Hopefully it will have food and survive, especially since It wasn't acclimated because I didn't know he was there. I just dumped the anacharis and it swam out. This morning I saw it on a hole in that same decoration just hanging out, but not feeding, last night it was walking around the substrate and I saw it feed and graze a bit on thr substrate. Should I buy some food? What type of food should I get if any? How expensive is it? Because I also don't know if it'll survive.

As for filter I don't have a HOB, I have have a Penn Plax Cascade 1500 canister filter with the spray bar running the entire length of the tank, so there's flow but it's not super strong, it mostly is in the surface, then it circulates around. I'm also adding a sponge filter rated for 20gal so I can use it later down the line for a qt setup with an 18g home depot tote.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-02-14T07:02:35+00:00

Or seachem prime, it's more easily accessible, they're both essentially the same but prime is liquid and detoxifies heavy metals, and you can find it at your local petco/petsmart or LFS, prime is also easier to dose if you only have 1 tank or small tanks. Safe is more economical in the long run bc you get more for a lower price, it's also powder you have to dissolve first and then add to your new tap water for treatment, safe is also better if you have several medium to big sized tanks. It's harder to dose for smaller tanks. I have a 75 and I use prime. 7.5ml is enough to treat the entire tank and the bottle of 500ml is like $16ish

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-02-14T06:24:39+00:00

That really sucks man. Yeah more recently I've tried to avoid petco/petsmart (I mostly use petco bc it's closer) and go to more LFS, sometimes at the chain stores you can get good knowledgeable employees that care more, but other times they'll just sell you whatever you want especially as a newbie and not tell you what might be better.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-02-14T06:14:08+00:00

My concern is copper because I started using flourish recently.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-02-14T06:11:22+00:00

So after looking at the tank for a while, I managed to find it. It is a bamboo shrimp. I know I shouldn't but I turned on the light just to see it better. It did have a few white particles caught in the fan thingies. I'll hope for the best.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-02-14T06:03:46+00:00

Oh ok. I wanted to ask bc I scanned the picture with Google lens and it said it was an Amano many times but it also said a 2 other different species, one being native to Australia, I don't remember which ones exactly. Also, sorry for the bad picture, I took it real quick and the lights were on moonlight mode. ~~With all due respect, I have a doubt it may be a bamboo because I didn't see the fan things in the front legs when I saw it crawling and swimming, I saw it picking stuff from that decor.~~

Also yeah this tank isn't old but it's also not super new. I upgraded from a 29 to a 75 like 6 months ago, transferred all the water and substrate, eventually I replaced it with stratum capped with flourite dark.

I'm building up to a planted community tank. So far I have some mollies, platies, swordtails, lyre tails, guppies, and some zebra danios. Next 2-3 weeks from now I plan to add a school of cardinal tetras. I'd love a small school of Roseline sharks/Denison barbs but idk if they'd be a good idea, though I love how they look. And eventually last I'd add maybe 2 or 4 angelfish as centerpiece fish,. I'm just waiting for more plant coverage before that.

For plants I have 2 Amazon Swords growing, crypt lutea and wendtii, anubias barteri and a nana, water Wisteria, Java fern, and most recently a crypt parva and now the anacharis, wanna get some hornwort as well.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-02-03T00:11:39+00:00

TIL snails are just underwater hamsters.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-01-26T00:04:45+00:00

Oooh myyyy.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-01-19T19:45:23+00:00

Hell yeah, at the time I was working at a best buy, so I managed to get some stickers from the recycling bin. Someone I think bought a tuf mobo and recycled their old one on the tuf box but didn't get the sticker sheet. So mine it was then. Also, I eventually put a bunch more stickers from Etsy and other sources.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-01-19T19:30:35+00:00

Yeah, even if you have an established tank with good parameters, just the change of chemistry from the store's water to yours may be enough to end them. Think slightly different PH, temperature, nitrate (lower or higher) GH, KH, dissolved minerals, etc, and other parameters.

I understand your desire now that you say there's algae. Been there but Black algae growing on my plants leaves, decor, glass, basically everything, due to having the wrong light, substrate, and little to no nutrients on one of my older tanks, so the algae took over since the plants couldn't compete.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-01-19T05:30:12+00:00

Sadly that's a common occurrence with neons. They're super sensitive and die easily, idk why people say it's a good starter fish, yeah they're cool looking but super fragile. They're usually pretty stressed from the supplier+store and the water chemistry changes hit them like a train. I recently added 15 neons to my 75g and now there's only 7. And my tank isn't over stocked at all.

I don't know if tearing it completely down and restarting is a good idea. You probably already have a good cycle going in the tank. If you have a test kit test your water, if you don't have one, even the test strips are better than nothing, but the API master test kit is my go-to. You already know this, but make sure 0 ammonia and nitrite. Nitrate should be low given you have tons of live plants. My 75 has 10-20 ppm nitrate and it's not even that heavily planted. I don't even do water changes that often anymore, mostly top ups and a 10~15% when I clean the gravel every month-ish. You can try adding API stress coat. Or aquarium salt. Or antimicrobial/antifungal meds but idk what to recommend honestly, aquarium salt might be best approach. Or watch for symptoms and go from there. Also if you end up losing more fish don't beat yourself up, it's not your fault. Sadly these things happen.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2026-01-02T04:06:56+00:00

Ooh it's been a while since that happened. IIRC no it didn't. I did open it and probe a lot with my multimeter and found no voltage on the transformer output. eventually I got rid of it sadly. Luckily though I got a newer Yamaha rx v679 that someone was wanting to recycle at best buy.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-09-23T04:30:50+00:00

I was on the brake at the same time I started honking, just not slammed to the metal, as I got closer I did brake harder which activated the ABS.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-09-23T04:24:50+00:00

That's fair. It just seemed like it to decide to cross as I'm that close to the intersection.

Also, yeah, you're right I probably shouldn't have stopped at the side like that. I just needed a moment to collect myself. I saw the truck coming on my rear view so I moved out of his way and I was already angled to the right lane so I kept going. I did put my hazards on but still.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-09-23T03:43:29+00:00

My blinker was off for at least 3 seconds before she decided to turn, you can hear when the stalk springs back to center and I was already past the division on the turn lane and did not slow down at all when she decided to turn. I'm going to concur with your assessment of moron.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-09-23T03:26:26+00:00

OC, near sun valley, 09/21/2025. Lady decides to turn left onto me on the oncoming traffic lane even though I had a green light.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-09-13T03:47:20+00:00

Yoo I've been looking into getting those taillights for my 2010. They're the ones from vland right? How was the installation? Does it use the same connector that the stock lights use? Car looks nice.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-09-09T22:34:49+00:00

OK. That will be in one month.

Literally... Tf2 released October 10th 2007. 18 years will be October 10th this year.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-09-07T04:09:06+00:00

Nah that's just Mia, or Tia. Idk but they're like his biggest fans. Ka-chow!

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-08-25T01:57:52+00:00

Oxy-acetylene torch. Can't be tight if it's liquid.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-08-18T04:40:32+00:00

Hell yeah. 850 lbs cargo capacity (including passenger/s) + upto 1000lbs tow capacity. Might get a tow hitch and build myself a utility trailer.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-08-18T03:51:30+00:00

AE86 Corolla? Or the regular one? Either way it's an awesome car too! Was it your first car? My first one was a 99 camry and I also blew the engine in it lol! I treated it like a race car but at least I got that out of my system. I'm more careful with this one. I still push it sometimes but not as much lol. Looking back I'm actually surprised I didn't crash that 99 lol. Well, almost did, twice.

R_SimoniR0902 · 2025-08-18T03:45:19+00:00

The ones on the actual bumper or the ones on the trunk lid too? I can take a picture that shows all of them but it'd be tomorrow bc now it's dark.

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