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Appreciate the input Mustafa, there was definitely some organic material on some of the old seashells when I first placed them. I washed the urchin shells thoroughly but after a day they bloomed yellow gunk all over the old spine holes so I removed them. The shrimp seemed fine, a mix of swimming and...

Did it really seem to be the aquarium gravel that killed your shrimp? I transferred four shrimp from an ecosphere into a 1-gallon beta bowl I set up for them back on the 16th of November. There are some old sea shells and corals in there, and I made a substrate out of aquarium gravel (which claimed ...

So after letting my tank cycle for a week last Friday I finally opened up my Ecosphere and transferred the contents, including 4 supershrimp, into my 1 gallon bowl. It's been nearly 3 days and the water is a little cloudy, and smells a bit off, not sulfury/rotten but more like stale seawater. Smells...

Hi Mustafa, Quick question, about how much water comes with the shrimp that we order? I've finally purchased a 1-gallon bowl, laid a substrate (gravel with some cleaned eggshells), rinsed everything with tap water, mixed some Instant Ocean at 50% of recommendation (1/4 of a cup per gallon, though I ...

Noted, many thanks for your reply! Guess I'll focus on some snazzy decorations and maybe some dead coral. I was at PetCo the other day and the directions on the gravel bag I was looking at suggested rinsing in tap water but I think I would also rinse/soak them and any other rocks in distilled water ...

Hi Mustafa, Thanks much for your input, really appreciate it. Definitely seems like coral isn't going to be the way to go. What about brackish plants? I'm looking at the plants listed on sites like this one: http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_list.php?category=8 and have found places to order them ...

Hi Mustafa et al, So I received a small ecosphere over a month ago via Groupon, but after viewing your site I agree that however cool it looks it's basically a Thunderdome for shrimp. I'm planning on transferring them out to a larger aquarium (1-2 gallons) and ordering some more supershrimp from the...