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What is the price for a sponge in the USA? I just visited ebay and they are pretty expensive. Maybe I look in a store. I think it is worth a try to have a sponge in the aquarium.

such a shrimp does exist. Should be some Caridina species. It does belong to the serrata complex. However not that special in coloration.

Well I had pretty much the same situation with Cambarellus chapalanus a while ago. There were some lighter and darker blue ones. But the color did not last, it changed back to brown, grey and all shade of color. Similiar things are known from a wide variety of crayfish species, I know several dozens...

Would someone please try to give their blue shufeldtii some better quality food with a sufficient amount of carotinoids? I got some blue shufeldtii, too, but mine turned brown, given correct food. Here is a link to an article that kind of supports my opinion that blue coloration in most crayfish is ...

Maybe its something like the heterosis effect. Geneticists once found that if they breed certain inbred strains of drosophila flies together they will get F1 that is larger than both the parent strains. The reason is unknown. That does work with other critters, too. It is very commonly used for plan...

Feeding is one important point for crayfish behavior. In Germany for example people report clarkii which are very aggressive and eat anything in their tank. Others claim to have very peaceful clarkii that do not even eat the plants in the tank. I think most of the difference between the two groups a...

I do not think it is likely that apple snails eat fish and frogs. Dead ones or almost dead ones maybe. However I have witnessed apple snails eat small ramshorn or physa snails. But once again, these are too slow to get away. A fish is not. There is one other interesting snail, that has been imported...

How should a snail eat baby shrimp? The snail is slow and the shrimp swim away. The hydra cant swim away...

planaria is still a problem, here, too. There is no other way than to treat them with some anthelminthicum.

It is unlikely that this snail lives in the USA, too. But maybe there are related species that can do the job?

Why worrying about Hydra? In Germany we have a native snail, that can eat all hydra in a tank in a few days, even it is hundreds of them. It is called Lymnea staginalis. Maybe there are snails like that in the USA, too?

Yes these are pure freshwater, I breed them, too. There are several Theodoxus species with interesting coloration. Unfortunately all stay very small, about 7mm to 1cm

Well at least they breed together. I bougth some rainbow shrimp once, too. It is funny, but it was only females. That the webshop did offer them with a picture of a indian zebra shrimp and only 2 of the 32 that survived of 40 I ordered had indead stripes is a different story. I then put in 2 males f...

I like these very much, too. Here is a photo of one of my females. It is really stuffed with eggs. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/zwergkrebszuechter/zebraweibchenriesengelege.jpg BTW, the shrimp that are sold together with the striped ones are of the same species I found out. It is just that...

Currently there are no books I know of that give any "newer" oder better information than found in the known forums.