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I have been battling a sugar ant infestation this spring!! They're everywhere!! I'm at my wits end! Apparently they love standing water too. My shrimp tank is on my kitchen counter and they have been healthy little shrimp, I even have 2 berried shrimp in there. I'm not sure what to do at this point....

Hey Guys!! Update on the tank I started in November and added shrimp to in early January. I saw my first berried shrimp!! I fed them a small amount of algae powder for the first time about 3 weeks ago. I haven't been keeping a close eye on them and a couple days ago I stopped to watch them for a bit...

So I received my 16 shrimp & 10 snails on Friday and am happy to report everyone is doing extremely well. The snails burrowed into the sand almost instantly and the shrimp started out a little pale and now are regaining some of their color. They're happily trucking around and eating stuff off of...

So I finally decided to get a test kit to be on the safe side. I didn't want to order shrimp only to have them die on me. So I tested my water today and all the levels are zero!! No ammonia, nitrites or nitrates!! I'm excited, but now I have to wait until 2018 to get my shrimpies. Whump, whump. I gu...

Hey Guys! Thanks for all the helpful tips and info for starting a Opae Ula tank! I set my 1.3 gallon tank up on November 7th using aragonite sand, a faux aquarium decoration and a natural black sea fan. I used Instant Ocean at half the recommended amount to make the distilled water brackish. So it's...

Hey there! My mom received one of those ecospheres years ago as a gift also. I didn't realize at the time how cruel those are to the cute little shrimp! I was looking at one of the ecospheres on Amazon last week when I ran across a review that mentioned what the actual lifespan of these shrimp shoul...