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I also apologize if my solicitation for PM's was borderline against the rules. It was not my intention to get anyone in trouble, just to share my findings. I've spent months researching this species and want fellow responsible hobbyists to benefit from my legwork to locate environmentally-minded sup...

hmm, I have to agree with John here. If it removes nitrogenous compunds, as it claims, then it is directly competing with the biofilter and the good micro-critters we try to cultivate for our shrimp to eat. As he said, I also believe water changes are the best natural way to remove unwanted compound...

I have had a tank ready for some for almost 2 years. Maybe some day, dreams do come true sometimes :roll: I don't feel so bad, then :lol: What's the holdup, Neon? If you just can't locate some (and it sure can be difficult), I can PM you some of the places I've found. Unfortunately, most only sell ...

yup, definitely avoid surfactants. For example, if one is doing a fishless (or Shrimpless, as the case may be :-D ) cycle, DO NOT use ammonia solution which contains soaps. Surfactants will clog gills and poison aquatic critters. It also breaks down proteins in their bloodstream, if I remember corre...

Wowee, those pics sure are amazing! They're such beautiful shrimp. I especially love the last pic of the closeup female? I can't WAIT until I get the cash to start my own opae ula breeding colony. I even have the tank, though I've put off cycling it for saltwater because I don't know when I can affo...

WOW, that's a lot of berried girls and several more with saddles. So they look quite happy, good job!

Well, Yesterday i saw a few baby Cherry Shrimps & this is my first time with these little critters. :wink: congrats on your first babies. It is a momentous occasion that everyone on this board remembers, I'm sure :D I don't think daphnia are physically equipped to hurt anything larger than floa...

southerndesert wrote:If the little critter looks strange it is because it was actually on the glass and that is a bottom view

I know, I noticed that. I like seeing shrimp from the underside, it looks so cool. Thanks again for keeping a great journal of this process which is new to the hobby!

welcome, geo. And I applaud your effort of doing your homework and reading through the threads here. It sounds like you're a good addition to this site already :) That is indeed a sad observation. Shrimp are 'cheap' huh? Some stores still sell RCS for $4-5 apiece, and that is not cheap to me at all....

Neonshrimp wrote: Hope it is a new color morph, this would be exciting news.

I tried not to get too optimistic about that possibility, but I'm cautiously hopeful *fingers crossed*

I will try to separate any more that pop up, but I'm running out of room!

sstimac wrote:I did lose a ghost shrimp in the move, an 8cm male.

are you sure he's a Palaemonetes? At 8 cm he sounds more like a Macrobrachium to me, unless that was a typo.

actually I was JUST about to post about the purple/bluish ("merlot" is a great description) female I found in my RCS breeding tank. I immediately suspected she was a hybrid, but then remembered blue Neocaridina do not breed true. I also have not introduced new stock in 6 months, so at leas...

thanks for the update, that's great news! :D I, too, have learned that shrimp are sneaky at hiding. So in my invert-only tanks, I do a quick visual count then multiply my initial estimate by 2 to get a total for the tank. In my fish&shrimp tanks, I count the number of visible shrimp and multiply...

There seem to be 3 distinct sizes of RCS babies, so I'm assuming three clutches? Is there a very much variability in fry size? congrats on your babies! That is certainly fast, 1 week for your population to increase by 10x? As far as I've seen, shrimplets are all fairly identical in size. RCS babies...

Neonshrimp wrote: I have heard about lost eyes being regenerated also

whoa! Science needs to look into that, for human medicine.