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Thanks for your welcomes, and all of the input- I can see I have a lot to learn and find it helpful to read the various view points. If anyone wants to add anything else on this topic, could you also post the amount of time you have been raising the shrimp.

I have the red cherry shrimp. Don't they like the water slightly acidic? Thanks for all the input everyone I am going to try the leaves. Jan

Okay, but could you add a piece of drift wood or lava rock to create a medium for biofilm to grow. Jan

It appears from the various reponses that there is debate on whether or not to use brown leaves from outside. Regardless ,what I am picking up as a newbie is that the shrimp do fine with or without ther leaves! Jan

Good thought CB... would be interesting to know. Back, to my fw tank plants, why wouldn'd there be enough goodies to feed these shrimp? Jan

Hi All - I'm new here, and just acclimated 20 cherry red shrimp to a tank. They are happily swimming around,ad begining to turn red. :D In reading the suggested articles, I realize I will have some dificulty getting brown leaves. Although it is winter time and leaves can still be found in the snow, ...