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this is the last post in the Plantgeek thread by someone calling herself "Shrimpfreek": "They lay eggs in feces, the eggs hatch with the help of light, and the larvae swim til they find a host snail or invert that eats feces. Treating the tank would most likely harm your inverts. Para...

Oh, Gregor, I wasn't blaming you. I'm sure everybody's better off for knowing, right? At least I hope so. I really didn't mean to upset anybody by posting those worms.

Sorry for making you paranoid after my post of the ghost shrimp with worms! But he asked about shrimp parasites...

you're welcome. I am also interested in contagious diseases among FW shrimp because my thread about ghost shrimp dying was the one in which Mustafa refers to those. I certainly hope I don't have something like that which, even though it may not affect my fish, is not a good thing to have living in m...

yup, my old shrimp always used to sit right in the stream of the filter outflow. i made sure my current filter has a "bamboo shrimp platform" (actually a tall decoration) right under it so the new shrimpy will also have a throne

You probably just have very stressed out and/or diseased animals. Shrimp can have contagious diseases, which *could* explain why your 1 year old shrimp died. Is there anything I could have or should have done then? Can I do anything now to make the tank safe for a bamboo shrimp and existing ghost s...

Check out this thread re: ghost shrimp parasites
http://aquariumboard.com/forums/general ... -more.html

This is the original thread to which the above refers:
http://www.plantgeek.net/forum/viewtopi ... highlight=

It was probably water quality, then. I used to be bad about water changes (50% a month) so the nitrates were probably too high. I have since reformed, though, and am meticulous about tank water quality (at least one water change a week). He had lived for about a year, so it wasn't an acclimation iss...

Also, I read that there are brackish species of Palaemonetes that are very hard to distinguish from the FW species. If I were accidentally given these from Petsmart, how quickly would they die in my FW tank? The deaths have been occurring about 2-3 weeks after purchase. How do you tell a brackish gl...

So you DO supplement/feed your bamboo shrimp nightly. I thought it was bad to overfeed shrimp in general, and that trying to feed bamboo shrimp would result in water fouling. I plan on buying some plankton (zoo- and phyto-) to drop in the filter stream for the shrimpy. Do you think this would work? ...

I am planning on getting a bamboo shrimp for my 29 gal. I used to have a small juvenile (1.5") in a 10 gal, but he died fter jumping out. I think he may have jumped out because of lack of food. I didn't supplement him but had a high fish load and algae, so probably lots of suspended particles f...

Thanks for the article! I did not see that when perusing the site. I read it and have kept fish for years (so use Prime, make sure water changes are done often to keep conditions close to source water, refill with water at same temp as tank) so feel I'm doing most things right. I do not medicate my ...

I have kept ghost shrimp successfully for over 2 years. The female was constantly carrying eggs (the larvae of which were eaten by my filter or fish, I assume), but 2 did eventually make it to the baby shrimp stage. Anyway, now I'm suddenly losing ghost shrimp all over the place (4-5 in the last 2 w...