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I was so happy to see my first berried female, she has like 10-15 eggs in her clutch. I cant wait to see them develop and hatch. This was right after my water levels finally stabilized. Salinity is 1.010, temp avg 76f. After observing her for a while, i noticed it seems she prefers dark hiding place...

Ya thats why i decided to go with no filtration or any water flow as per your suggestion and they seem to be doing great. The shrimp i got were from a local non wild caught breeder in texas.

I wonder if anyone has this widgeon grass.

I think i'd live a long life if i lived in hawaii.

Looking good mech, good idea having two tanks, that way you can cull out the reddest of them.

I also had calcium dust at the beginning, it went away after a few water changes, (this is why its important to rinse the substrate) it takes longer to clear up/settle since its brackish water as compared to freshwater. i did a lot of water changes in the beginning to clear things up, then once clea...

Fine grain sand is fine, why would it be bad? My opaes love picking up grains of sand and looking for goodies on it. They even swim around with it.

Ive seen some people use a base layer of white live aragonite and a top layer of inert black sand. Thats always an option. My tank has black sand and crushed coral.

It says not to but i would, or else your going to get very cloudy water.

Congrats!

Tank is about 2 months old. I think ill just leave them. I dont see any harm done yet.

Congrats! Is this your first berried female? Im still waiting for mine.

Ive noticed short strands of clear hairlike things growing on my coral rock, could this be some kind of hair algae? Does anyone know what this may be? Or does anyone have it growing in their tanks too?

This has been on my mind as well, some of mine are red, some are red with clear stripes, some are red striped, some are clear, some are white, and some have a dark brown spot where the saddle is. I heard that there are different species of opaes, i wonder if thats what it is. Im trying to get all my...

-hangs head in shame.... i had one of those biosphere sealed units as a young'n and thought it was cool. The shrimps only lived for about 2 years :( I have started keeping fresh water shrimps and stumbled across these brackish shrimp which reminded me of the ones in my biosphere and low and behold ...