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These shrimp do best if they have some vertical hard structure with significant flowing water in that area of the tank. For the average aquarium, a large tall piece of driftwood placed directly in the main outlet of the filter works well. If your shrimp are crawling around scraping on surfaces to fe...

In my opinion, Melafix and Pimafix work through the placebo effect. Animals treated with them that survive would have survived with or without treatment.

bjar, thanks for letting me know your method of isolating the females. A few days after I isolated those 3 females in the "improved" floating boxes, I moved a small colony from one tank to another. At this time, I discovered that there were 3 newly pregnant females in that tank. So I decid...

I keep ramshorn snails in all of my shrimp tanks. I like the look of them, but my clown loaches especially love eating them. I don't think there is a healthier food for clowns than snails.

I hate to ruin the fantasy of a peaceful planted tank with lots of fish and lots of inverts living in peace and harmony. I want the same thing too, but there is a reason that even well fed lions at the zoo are kept separate from the zebras. You'll have to choose between fish and inverts, especially ...

Mustafa, I'd love to see those crays in Florida. They sound fantastic.

I can truly say that the ones I photographed were the most beautiful animals I have ever seen in the wild.

I am not aware of any diseases of shrimp that are treatable with medications.

I will warn you that many of the antiparasitic medicines for fish contain a lot of copper which can and will kill shrimp and other inverts.

The largest one I saw was not much more than 3.5 inches body length (not including extended claws).

I'll take a signed first edition of your book when it is published.

Very nice! I like the chromatophore images.

I just think it would be difficult to match the water quality of the cave streams which have a very high mineral content (especially high in calcium) with very little organic material in it.

badflash, you are right. I knew of the federal cave protection act, but just did some research and found that Alabama extends protection to ALL wild caves, not just those on state and federal land.

Removing one of these crayfish or any other living critter from the cave would be illegal.

No, this species is not listed as threatened or endangered and thus has no legal protection. Only 4 species of crayfish are listed as endangered in the U.S. (two of them are cave species), and no species are currently listed as threatened. It is a sad fact that invertebrates rarely received the kind...

YuccaPatrol Is this the only one that you were able to find ? I saw several of these during the day. I didn't remove the one in the top photo from the water so I do not know if it was male or female. The one shown in my hand was a male. At the end of the day when we were closer to the surface where...

I found these yesterday while caving in northern Alabama. I have previously found pale or minimally pigmented crayfish, but these are the first I have ever seen which are true cave dwellers with no pigment or eyes. These crays would not ever be suitable for the home aquarium because they are very ra...