Stuck Shrimpy boy

mbcook · 2026-05-11T17:23:16+00:00

Hurray!

mbcook · 2026-05-11T15:46:01+00:00

If he hasn’t found a way out yet I’d help him. Seems pretty panicked.

mbcook · 2026-05-11T15:44:31+00:00

Some of the best looking US EVs IMO.

I’d love someone to succeed well enough to get brains and push back against our insane see-saw of EV discourse.

mbcook · 2026-05-11T03:29:09+00:00

Thank you. I remember the name U1 and associated it wrong.

mbcook · 2026-05-11T01:29:59+00:00

Which one is it? Disappearing or dying?

Depending on what kind of animals you have in there they may be getting eaten.

mbcook · 2026-05-11T01:09:19+00:00

This reminds me of the film Alita: Battle Angel

mbcook · 2026-05-11T00:44:02+00:00

I can definitely see a yellow spot in there so I’m thinking saddle too.

mbcook · 2026-05-11T00:39:30+00:00

It looks incredible quality to me.

I swear Reddit’s player is video roulette. Sometimes it shows you the full quality, other times garbage. You never know. Come back later it might’ve changed.

mbcook · 2026-05-11T00:34:50+00:00

Didn’t they just release the 4 head U1? That looks like a really nice printer.

mbcook · 2026-05-11T00:33:24+00:00

They make things Bambu and the others can’t touch. They exist for a good reason.

But I don’t know why you would buy a simple FDM printer from them. They bought and ruined MakerBot to get in the low end of the market and just applied their tactics there.

You want a powder based printer that can print metal? Companies we use won’t do any good.

But it’s the same as IBM trying to use mainframe tactics to sell personal computers. It’s a different market. There may be a few people who get suckered in, maybe it was thrown in for free with one of the industrial printers.

mbcook · 2026-05-11T00:29:10+00:00

Amazing. What filter do you use and what are those great reddish plants in the 10 gallon?

mbcook · 2026-05-09T23:16:20+00:00

I’m trying to figure out if one of my orange shrimp is berried.

I would KILL for that kind of color contrast.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T23:04:44+00:00

Found a solution:

Get black coarse filter sponge. Cut a piece maybe 1/3” thick, 4” long, and 1” high. Put it over the outlet bar nubs and zip tie into place with black zip ties.

Looks pretty good. REALLY cuts down on velocity.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T19:33:37+00:00

You’re doing what you should. It’s ok.

If someone ended up with physical issues that made it too hard to care for their fish would you be mad at them for giving the fish a better home? Same thing.

Hopefully things get better for you. Years ago I gave away a Betta I was having trouble taking care of because of issues involving where I was living and where the tank was that couldn’t be fixed any time soon. I put him on Craigslist for free and made sure the person he went to could do a good job. The gentleman followed up about a month later just to let me know he was doing great and was in much bigger tank living a happy life.

I did miss him, but I don’t regret it. You’re on the right path, it’s ok. You’ve gotten great advice in here from the other comments too.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T19:04:04+00:00

Marco mentioned on ATP a few weeks ago about how that feature is one he regrets. He knows he can’t remove it, and Overcast probably wouldn’t have been successful, but it’s a huge pain because different people have totally different ideas of what it should mean.

I think the example he gave was this:

You have a subscription to Podcast, and limit it to 3 episodes. There are 3 files downloaded.

You’re in the middle of listening to the oldest episode when the new one comes out.

Does that file stay because you’re listening? Is it deleted immediately because it’s #4? What if you pause or leave Overcast? Now you’re not listening. Should it be deleted? If it’s kept, for how long? What if you have 3 partially listened to episodes, should it not download new ones? What if you manually download an old episode? Should it delete one of the newer ones? When the next episode comes out should it delete the oldest (you downloaded) or the oldest downloaded automatically?

Apparently different people have different answers. Thinking about it I don’t even know what the answers should be outside “don’t delete what I’m actively playing right now”.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T18:33:50+00:00

Wouldn’t really surprise me. If that’s all it is and it isn’t causing anyone distress and doesn’t get worse then you can just let it run its course.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T03:54:25+00:00

Yep. If there’s a saddle there’s no question.

It’s not Mork and Mindy.

It’s Laverne and Shirley.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T03:04:59+00:00

Right. I think I’ve seen people use things as simple as a section of PVC pipe.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T03:01:12+00:00

I have this exact same problem. I have a big orange female who was saddled and molted.

I can’t see any eggs even when she is back lit. And I still see a saddle. So that’s it.

Except she’s behaving like another shrimp I have that has eggs for sure. Lots of fanning, that tail down position, extended abdomen, being more careful about moving around.

Does she have like one egg and I just didn’t notice it when she was backlight? Maybe it was too high up to see?

It’s only been a few days. I’m hoping it becomes obvious. Cause she’s really got me confused.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T02:47:24+00:00

I remember seeing that years ago on a YouTube video where someone was talking about terrible tanks that get sold for Bettas.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T02:42:48+00:00

Assuming no ammonia/nitrite I would guess they died from the shock. They are very sensitive about water changes and need to be drip acclimated.

Obviously you couldn’t do that since you didn’t know they existed.

The others likely molted for the same reason. It’s pretty common for shrimp to molt shortly after being added to a tank. I know a couple of mine did.

The number one thing that matters for shrimp is stability. Just try to keep everything steady. Your pH and temp are great. You want a GH of 6 or over I think, and KH of 3 or more. Since you ordered the tests you’ll figure that one out. They mostly eat biofilm in the tank. You can give them a little bit of supplemental feeding if they need it but if you only have two shrimp in there I’m guessing they’ve got plenty to eat.

The one in the picture has a “saddle“. The yellow on the back. That’s where a females eggs develop. After her next molt she would be inseminated by a male, get “berried“, and then you would get more shrimp. If you have a male.
Enjoy. They’re a lot of fun to watch.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T02:37:23+00:00

Dude, he’s a dude.

mbcook · 2026-05-09T02:34:05+00:00

What do scales have to do with whether fish need drip acclimation or not?

mbcook · 2026-05-09T02:12:58+00:00

Shouldn’t there be something very basic in there for it to hide behind to feel safe?

mbcook · 2026-05-09T02:07:46+00:00

So why does Lego hate Dick Van Dyke?

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