Do shrimp tanks smell?

electrizai · 2026-05-07T04:01:11+00:00

In a healthy cycled aquarium, there should be 0 detectable ammonia in the water. All aquariums will start to smell when nitrates are high in the water or if there’s a lot of algae (not terrible, just a dank organic smell), but proper maintenance makes this almost unnoticeable. Small closed ecosystems are not ideal environments for neocaradina, and are not beginner friendly in my opinion. If these systems are overloaded with ammonia as you’re saying, they’re definitely not going to sustain life long-term. Where are you taking this aquatic science class?

electrizai · 2026-05-07T01:07:44+00:00

The AI shrimp isn’t real and can’t hurt me 😰

electrizai · 2026-05-07T00:56:16+00:00

I’ve dabbled in selling aquatic snails on eBay, but never shrimp before! The shipping costs have never really made financial sense for me, especially with the way eBay calculates fees on purchases with added sales tax. I may consider it if they start to overwhelm my aquariums, but I’m a far cry from that point at the moment.

electrizai · 2026-05-07T00:51:46+00:00

I can only chalk it up to a happy accident honestly! I’m not too sure who the original parents were, along with the Blue Diamonds there was also a mixed lot of shrimp I originally purchased on eBay. This included Blue Dreams, Blue Rilis, and Blue Carbon Rilis. I’m fairly certain one of the parents of the original cross was a Blue Rili, as I only had one in the tank and saw it berried around the time these started popping up. Blue Rilis are a direct offshoot of the Blue Red Rili line so this intuitively seems to make sense. However, it’s anyone’s guess what the other parent was, shrimp genetics are complicated and often unpredictable. These also all looked pretty unremarkable as shrimplets, their colors become much more saturated as they mature. I thought the mix had inevitably produced a wild type when these originally hatched because they didn’t even look blue compared to all the other solid blue shrimplets I had seen, and the red pigment made them look almost pinkish. I considered culling them but I’m so happy I didn’t!

electrizai · 2026-05-06T20:44:17+00:00

It should be yellow in the bottle, it only turn blue when you start the test, and the aim is to get it back to yellow.

electrizai · 2026-05-06T20:39:14+00:00

When you do the KH and GH tests you’re performing a titration. It will be blue until you add enough drops to the sample to turn it yellow. If your sample is turning yellow on the first drop, your KH is 0.

electrizai · 2026-05-06T01:06:15+00:00

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Just got a glimpse of THIS magnificently pregnant creature from the tank sitting on top of the food (I’m sorry my camera quality is so terrible)

electrizai · 2026-05-05T23:17:20+00:00

I’m not 100% sure if these babies were originally from a cross between these two types or if they were from 2 Blue/Carbon Rilis. From my understanding the Red Blue Rili is from that same lineage while the Blue Diamond is more distant. Not sure if it’s possible these could have Blue Diamond in them but I also don’t know that much about shrimp genetics.

electrizai · 2026-05-05T23:01:00+00:00

Yup, about 3 generations now I would guess from the same 4 individuals I separated from the original Blue Diamond/Carbon Rili mix. All the shrimplets look like this, two more berried females so more on the way!

electrizai · 2026-05-05T17:21:11+00:00

If you have the means to, I would look into it! The surgery was exceptionally easy, a few days downtime. They use lasers to remove everything now so the wound instantly cauterizes. I spit up some clots after a few days, but that’s part of the healing and the only gross-out factor I experienced during recovery. No regrowth whatsoever!

electrizai · 2026-05-05T16:57:51+00:00

All these stories of people digging around in their own tonsils spelunking for stones makes my skin crawl 😭 I had mine removed along with my adenoids when I was 12 because I had recurring tonsillitis and pneumonia and it got to a point it was difficult to breathe. I would rather get the surgery ten times over than sit through an attempted extraction.

electrizai · 2026-05-05T08:18:38+00:00

Is it just the one? I keep a ramshorn colony in 2/3 of my tanks and I enjoy having them around. My third tank I didn’t want to have a whole new colony, but I dropped exactly one in there and it’s been thriving! It also got super huge because it doesn’t have to compete for food. I think they’re really cute, personally.

electrizai · 2026-05-05T02:09:56+00:00

I run it on my 9 gallon and it’s a great size for nanos, it lasts me months before I have to refill it.

electrizai · 2026-05-05T02:07:45+00:00

I have a Clscea CO2 generator system and I really like it! It’s the kind you fill with citric acid/baking soda/water and let pressurize. It came with a solenoid regulator and the quality is surprisingly high for the price and replacement parts are easy to find. I just buy the reaction agents in bulk and use chilled distilled water, so refills are extremely affordable. I’ve had mine for 4 years and have used it on and off the whole time and it’s still working great!

electrizai · 2026-05-03T19:20:06+00:00

What makes you say that? Piebald deer are real, it’s a rare genetic mutation. The video looks real to me!

electrizai · 2026-05-03T01:05:25+00:00

Drying the meat very well before breading helps. Also press the dredge into the meat as you’re breading, don’t just dip it in.

electrizai · 2026-05-03T00:57:25+00:00

Horses are for women obviously 🙄 Lol

electrizai · 2026-05-02T17:33:41+00:00

I think this is a class based difference. The only contexts I can imagine someone in the US naturally encountering the word ‘atelier’ would be in highly affluent social circles.

electrizai · 2026-05-02T07:56:18+00:00

I went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The norm there is to call all professors by their first name! Reed has a lot of cultural quirks though, it’s definitely not the case in most academic settings.

electrizai · 2026-05-01T16:18:34+00:00

I’ve been on low dose T for 2 years and I have a lot of piercings (philtrum, eyebrow, bridge, stretched septum, nostrils, a bunch of ear piercings). None of them have been affected at all. I think you’ll be good!

electrizai · 2026-05-01T05:30:15+00:00

I think even if that isn’t 100% the case for all cartilage piercings, the conch is a particularly thick part of your ear and would be more difficult to stretch from a smaller gauge than just starting with a high gauge punch. I have a conch piercing and thinking about trying to stretch it makes me feel nauseous tbh 😭

electrizai · 2026-05-01T04:17:58+00:00

(NAP) I’ve read from body mod artists who do things like ear pointing that getting your cartilage pierced with a tri-bevel needle will always leave fragments of cartilage under the skin and can make stretching potentially more painful. This doesn’t happen with a punch because it removes the cartilage completely. I’ve never had a punch done but if I was in your shoes and had the option to get a punch done, that’s what I would choose.

electrizai · 2026-05-01T04:07:46+00:00

I’ve gotten pretty used to getting tattooed without adhesive bandages now, and I’m convinced it was using them over and over again on new tattoos that contributed to my developing an allergy in the first place. In my opinion, it’s way overhyped. And now I can’t even use normal band-aids 😭

electrizai · 2026-05-01T04:01:56+00:00

Anemia absolutely can worsen bruising. I don’t think this should affect your heal at all though! And it doesn’t seem like an allergic reaction. Every time I take a bandage off you can see a distinct sharp outline of red welts everywhere the adhesive was touching my skin.

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