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I have been told that shrimps is appropriate if you are talking about more than one species, like fishes.

ToddnBecka wrote:Maybe she had a headache...

Or bad breath.

Amano shrimps eats black hair alges. If you get these you have too low or unstabil CO2 value. To make it right you have to put more CO2 into your water by: lower surface circulation, if you hace pressured CO2 then put on more CO2 into the tank. Black hair alges don't have much to do with the nitrat...

Stunning shrimp pedro.

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None of those shrimp can crossbreed, it is probably a dark colored cherry shrimp.

Mine were purchased as marble shrimp.

I'm bringing up this thread because I am wondering what to do with my seperate colony of brown/clear cherry shrimp that turn out red. Can I reintroduce them back into the cherry population without risk of getting brown offspring?

You could try some pimafix. It is harmless to the shrimp and is decent at clearing up fungal infections. It is often used with melafix, also harmless, to prevent secondary infections.

The tank has been running this way with the shrimp for about a year. I started with a dozen and would estimate I've had at least 600 go on to new homes. I have a couple hundred now. I dose 5ppm nitrate, 10ppm potassium, and ~.75 ppm phosphate two times a week. I also dose 1ml of flourish three times...

I keep the nitrate in my cherry breeding tank 15-20ppm and the phosphate between 1 and 2 ppm. I have never seen a die off of cherry shrimp, or even a slow in their reproduction for that matter. I think you should be fine adding nitrate and other ferts as long as the plants are taking up the nutrient...

I have the same experience. I saw one cherry with green eggs, most of the babies were these wild type cherrys. I've sperated them and they are reproducing mostly brownish shrimp now. These shrimp have greenish eggs too.

Beautiful shirmp. What are they eating?

I have some in a half whiskey barrel in my back yard. I'm not sure on the temperature, but the high was over 90F for a couple week and they did just fine. The water was noticably warmer than my tanks(~78F).