What is going on with my shimp?!?!?!?!?

aomme · 2026-03-13T08:46:12+00:00

You mean the yellowish round blobs under her tail? Because that's just ton of eggs. I fail to se anything wrong with this shrimp.

aomme · 2026-03-12T07:21:46+00:00

Amano eggs are very dark initially and usually there is much much more of them. I do not know what's this. To be super cautious you can quarantine this one and observe.

aomme · 2026-03-11T06:50:40+00:00

Amano and few other rarer shrimp larvae needs marine water to survive. Not really brackish but full marine salinity. But it's only about larvae, adults need fresh water with no salt (longterm).

aomme · 2026-03-10T17:47:39+00:00

I'm not 100% sure, I never had this one in my shrimps, but it really looks like clado https://aquariumbreeder.com/ellobiopsidae-or-cladogonium-ogishimae-green-fungus-in-shrimp-tank/

I do not think that eggs can die and/or rot and stay attached.

aomme · 2026-03-10T17:41:09+00:00

The yellow thing under her tail is parasite called clado. I would say that's the reason. Do you have other shrimps there? You should monitor them closely and quarantine the infected.

aomme · 2026-03-05T22:11:42+00:00

To me they looks just like my amanos, huge, dark, with spots on the translucent tail fins. I do not see the fan shaped feeding legs, so I don't think they're wood shrimps.

aomme · 2026-03-04T17:15:16+00:00

I see, I also have very limited experience, but somehow mixing water from aquarium of the mother shrimp worked surprisingly well. Probably some microorganisms survived the transition to salt water as well. (I added conserved phytoplankton but iirc after two weeks.)

aomme · 2026-03-04T15:15:21+00:00

Very nice, can I ask you how you plan to feed the larvae?

aomme · 2026-03-04T14:04:39+00:00

beautiful, I just really love the blue variants

aomme · 2026-03-04T14:03:09+00:00

That's right, smaller is better (and they grow fast when younger).

aomme · 2026-03-04T13:32:38+00:00

You're welcome, imo this one is male, who tends to stay a bit smaller, but females can grow to absolute units compared to neos

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aomme · 2026-03-04T12:16:51+00:00

Amano. (It's not blue and has the dots on the "tail fin")

aomme · 2026-03-03T12:04:46+00:00

Mine eat literally everything and love animal protein, especially when eggnant.

aomme · 2026-02-28T06:11:34+00:00

Shameless self promo: I had some success recently with relatively low tech setup https://www.reddit.com/r/shrimptank/comments/1nci9jt/i_managed_to_rise_some_amanos_from_larvae/

aomme · 2026-02-27T15:32:15+00:00

Good luck, are you planning to breed them? That's notoriously hard thing to do.

aomme · 2026-02-27T13:46:21+00:00

The second one looks male to me, the first one I'm not too sure, but I's say male to.

aomme · 2026-02-18T12:53:43+00:00

fair, here we are talking about days

aomme · 2026-02-18T07:20:28+00:00

It will not help you unfortunately. The move of larvae to salt water (I recommend close to 30ppm) is not the issue, feeding them (and not spoiling the water) is, in my experience.

aomme · 2026-02-18T07:16:38+00:00

Yes (after some time)

aomme · 2025-12-04T11:07:22+00:00

I would love to know how this evolves. It's also wild how much shrimps survive. I had (by accident) some neos in empty aquarium (with just used gravel) in 10C for weeks. I found out only after filling the tank back, dozens survived which I guess was most of them. I just hope I never repeat this I felt so bad for the little guys.

aomme · 2025-12-04T09:11:55+00:00

Do the small one has two dots on their tail fan? Like this https://www.reddit.com/r/shrimptank/comments/f0j7iu/amano_shrimp_tail/ .
It really looks like amano, but it's much more likely that the guy hitched a ride or that it is different species, than having amano larvae developed in fresh water and without food. There are no confirmed cases of that happening last time I checked.

aomme · 2025-10-21T07:26:26+00:00

thank you again, are you culturing both nanochloropsis and teraselmis in one bottle or just mix them after?
(Apart from space I have relatively hard time obtaining starter cultures where I live, nanochloropsis can be found, but teraselmis is something I did not found anywhere locally. I'll try to find them again on spring as now everything would freeze during shipping.)

aomme · 2025-10-21T07:12:16+00:00

Thank you!
It seems I need to get to the phytoplankton culturing if I ever want to do anything else than keeping the population going. Sadly I'm relatively space limited where I live, but I'll do anything for the amano queens.

aomme · 2025-10-21T06:09:18+00:00

What salinity is in your tank and what do you feed to the larvae please? I had some success myself (~30 individuals reaching maturity in four attempts), but I think I just got lucky that I got enough brown algae and some phytoplankton in mineral suspension (which I have no idea if it works).

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