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The bottom of the tank is planted with some type of fine aquatic grass that covers most of the substrate.... This is the grass before the string algae invasion you can see it start to appear there in the back though... http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/andruk81/Grass.jpg The grass has spread ou...

My water testing ability is pretty limited because what I have availible to me is the "Quick Dip Test Strips" ....these things test for pH, hardness, alkalinity, nitrite, and nitrate.....And then I also have pH strips.... So theres a lot of error ....but according to those strips everythin...

I think something is happening to the tanks water conditions at night. I stayed up tonight because I am studying for a Biochemistry exam and a Neuroscience midterm that I have on monday. Since I have been worried about the shrimp Ive been checking on them about every four hours or so....give or take...

Can I retract that sigh of relief I found a Malaya dead today....Im pretty sure it was a male.... This is really fustrating me because I cant figure out whats going wrong in this tank..... The Sri Lanka that are in the tank with the Malaya are all berried and acting fine....One has been berried for ...

I dont feed my shrimp
I just pay attention to the water quality

Are you testing different foods to see if certain types better maximize growth?

*sigh of relief*

Thanks for the verification Mustafa


This means that of the four Malaya I can spot...2 are males and 2 are females.....


I wish they would breed already jeeze ....the Sri Lanka are much smaller and berried already....

Oddly enough while I was trying to coax some of the suspect shrimp towards the glass for photos I found an additional shrimp.....so I have four Malayas....(Maybe there is a fifth in there somewhere :roll: though I still think its unlikely) These are pictures of two different shrimp....but I cant tel...

Ill work on coaxing them all back to the front of the glass....

Mustafa probally could tell at a glance....

my gut feeling is that they are all females...and that the third one is just a less developed female....

Did you read my question?
I wasnt sharing pictures I wanted to know if I was correct or if I am going to need to purchase more Malaya

Well now some more time has passed. I have one berried Sri Lanka and all five of these shrimp seem healthy...so hopefully Ill have some babies soon and will be able to relax a bit when it comes to their population size.... However I thoroughly checked the tank and it appears that I only have 3 Malay...

If you start to see the population shifting in either direction please keep us informed.

Ideally it would be neat to have like a comprehensive comparision sheet, in which each species is evaluated on which species they will tend to outcompete in the longrun....

Ok Im a little closer to starting this crude experiment. One of my Sri Lanka Dwarf Shrimp has berried so barring any horrible accident I should have some more offspring so I can move them to additional tanks which would free up this tank to start the experiment. I just need the Malaya Shrimp to repr...

Yeah those are really awsome looking shrimp...!

Well I was planning on starting a crude study....but I probally need a little advice to keep things as even as possible.... I suppose there could be a couple ways to do start it off (I can think of two): I could start off with the same amount of males as females for both species..... I could start o...

I have asian fan, bumblebee, and amano in a single tank. No issues with compeition. Well this competition would only apply to species of shrimp that reproduce readily in a freshwater tank... So if you have two species in one tank that both reproduce in freshwater.... Ultimately if one is better at ...