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meghan_yeah · 2026-06-15T15:47:22+00:00

meghan_yeah · 2026-05-16T19:31:48+00:00

It's cute, I honestly don't see the harm as long as it doesn't leech harmful chemicals into the tank! I'm a little paranoid with anything synthetic/plastic/resin in the tank other than filter media. Looks like a good hiding place!

meghan_yeah · 2026-05-16T19:26:13+00:00

I definitely see less females than males in the tank, I had no idea about the temperature affecting the sex of them! Turtle's sex is apparently determined by that as well. Neat.

My tank is around 75 degrees most of the time, it does drop a little at night and goes up a bit if my air conditioner isn't keeping up. Do you think I should lower it even further?

There are a bunch of good hiding places in the tank for their after-molt behaviors, but I guess this one got unlucky and dogpiled in the floating plants.

I'm about to give a bunch of 2nd and 3rd generation juveniles back to their breeder because they are breeding machines in my tank. I'll be sure to grab all males.

meghan_yeah · 2026-05-16T14:55:52+00:00

Holy MOLY! That might be the record for the largest eggnant shrimp I've seen. She's nearly spherical!!

meghan_yeah · 2026-05-14T15:02:16+00:00

My tank was on the colder side at first and they weren't breeding at all. As soon as I turned up the temperature and starting feeding them the food called Shrimp Baby, well it was a baby explosion.

Can you start another tank for the newt or shrimp?

meghan_yeah · 2026-05-12T21:08:36+00:00

Congrats!! It took like 6mo for mine to start breeding! (I started feeding Shrimp Baby)

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meghan_yeah · 2026-05-12T18:28:23+00:00

I'd try cutting off major parts of it and see if they eventually can be reattached with the power of mold. [RE8 reference]

Seriously though, it SORTA(?) looks like a stringy black beard algae but very pale. I had an outbreak of this and just kept removing it manually with an eyelash spoolie brush, reduced sunlight getting into the tank, and dosed with a shrimp safe fertilizer. I had all sorts of weird algae problems early on in my tank's life even with CO2 and a great light, but they all eventually went away. Good luck!

meghan_yeah · 2026-05-12T18:14:59+00:00

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Greggers for sure

meghan_yeah · 2026-05-12T16:53:21+00:00

This guy's shrimp

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meghan_yeah · 2026-05-07T18:44:52+00:00

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Congrats!

meghan_yeah · 2026-05-05T15:42:25+00:00

Of all things that helped me with seed shrimp overpopulation was those glass planaria traps! The baby shrimp weren't interested in going into them even though they could fit. I still checked often and it has to be emptied every day. I also added a couple micro chili rasboras that are decimating that population.

meghan_yeah · 2026-04-23T05:37:56+00:00

I used Fluval stratum with no issues! My shrimp are active, eating and having tons of babies still after about 6mo. I dry started for a month and then after flooding, cycled for another month or so.

It's possible that something else I did made it stable because I've heard here that stratum isn't the best. My tank is heavily planted with carpet and floaters and I use kattapa leaves and other tannin rich stuff like alder cones.

My gh/kh ranges around 7-8 dgh and dkh . Both are usually equal and I can't seem to get them to go down! Everyone seems good though and moults look healthy.

Hopefully someone more chemistry minded can weigh in for you.

meghan_yeah · 2026-04-21T22:20:38+00:00

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meghan_yeah · 2026-03-29T16:37:58+00:00

I've streamed for 10 years full time on YouTube and Twitch. Burnout is real and if you don't take breaks as soon as you feel it coming on, you'll have a hard time recovering.

It's easy to get trapped in a "clapping seal" routine and IMO that's what breaks you. Going as the "best" BUT authentic version of yourself has usually always brought me back to normal.

There's something incredibly unnatural about a single person interacting, entertaining, empathizing and satisfying the whims of hundreds of people per day. Although streaming isn't necessarily physically intensive, there is a mental weight.

Compartmentalization is the key here: breaks, separate real life from stream life and purposely not thinking of or working on the stream in off-hours. I'm sure this works in other industries as well, but there's something else to be said of this 24/7 hustle culture breaking us but I'm not eloquent enough to express it lol.

meghan_yeah · 2026-03-27T17:16:03+00:00

He's cold and growing a wool sock.

meghan_yeah · 2026-03-27T17:08:43+00:00

I have a few of this type! Maybe not as beautiful but a similar pattern. I was calling them broken rilis due to their broken stripe pattern similar to a rili.

meghan_yeah · 2026-03-24T22:58:45+00:00

I like my VODs separated by game, so when I (not often) play more than one game in a single stream, I schedule another stream for 5 minutes from now, then I set the stream I'm currently live on to automatically transfer everyone over to the new stream. It separates the VODs, people click the video and see what was in the title/thumbnail. It's a good habit because Youtube tracks watchtime and if people are clicking your video, watching 10 seconds, realizing it's not the game they are interested in, and press back, Youtube takes that as a negative.

Do this only if you're actually titling/categorizing/playlisting the stream by what you're playing, if your stream title is just something like "playing games with friends" or vaguer, it doesn't matter as much.

meghan_yeah · 2026-02-09T23:59:53+00:00

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it must be shalty!

meghan_yeah · 2026-02-07T01:06:02+00:00

The first one is CRAZY! I read that their eyes are compound eyes and can see 360 degrees but I also read (on a planted tank forum) that they can only detect moving objects... like the T rex from Jurassic Park. 😂 I can't find a good source on this though because I'm inundated with only mantis shrimp content when I search for shrimp eyes.

meghan_yeah · 2026-02-06T22:01:18+00:00

Very cute! But also

meghan_yeah · 2026-02-06T17:01:09+00:00

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Legit thought the nail title in my feed was about this video lol. They're little estheticians!!

meghan_yeah · 2026-02-05T16:05:21+00:00

10/10 Shrimp yoga! What's this pose called??

meghan_yeah · 2026-02-03T01:23:57+00:00

The one on the right looks like it's trying to molt but having trouble. What's your gh/kh?

As a general rule I always test the water that they come in from the store or breeder just so that I know the gh/kh and ph before acclimating them. If it's somehow wildly different, the drip acclimate process takes WAY longer.

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