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Crustacean larvae are given different names (like zoea) depending on their anatomy. A good key to the different types of crustacean larvae is here: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-71781997002500012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en Although there are typos in the ke...

YuccaPatrol--They're adorable! Is that little 2 cm thing in the top picture an adult?

A cuttle bone for fish? Put it in the tank you mean? It won't cloud the water? I have one in my tank that has an undergravel filter, and I've never had that problem. If do you use cuttlebone, make sure you get the plain ones, not the flavored ones, remove the metal clip, and rinse it off before you...

Newjohn--My wife thinks I'm crazy too, and that she has to monitor me constantly to make sure that my craziness does not go out of control. The couple of times that I soaked oak leaves, I kept them in a jar on my desk for a few days. My wife eyed the jar with great suspicion both times. "What i...

And it took me so long to write this last post, that it was redundant by the time I finally finished it. Oh well.

Your definition of "species" is correct. The problem with the word "hybrid" is that it can have two different meanings, depending on the context. It can mean the offspring of two different species (like your example of the mule), in which the offspring generally is sterile or has...

FWIW, I think that Shrimpfreek was mistakenly referring to another type of worm parasite of shrimp, which forms small cysts in the tail muscle of infected animals: http://www.bio.georgiasouthern.edu/Bio-home/Pung/pungresearch4.html Luckily, I have never heard of this particular parasite affecting gh...

Gosh, I'm sorry too. I wasn't trying to scare anybody. Honest.

Thanks!

The sight of a ghost shrimp with a horsehair worm coiled up inside of it is not soon forgotten. I hope these parasites don't attack other types of freshwater shrimp.

In a previous thread, Mustafa mentioned something about how some store-bought shrimp can have contagious diseases. Does anybody out there know about the sorts of diseases and parasites that attack freshwater shrimp in the aquarium trade? Because of the aquaculture of Macrobrachium, there has been so...

The subject of cherry red and ghost compatibility was touched on over here: http://www.petshrimp.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?p=11946&highlight=#11946 There were people who kept them together without problems. There were other people who expressed concern that ghost shrimp might eat red cherry ...

I caught another one in the act of molting today. It was very similar to the previous one. With a violent sneezing motion, the shrimp literally flew out of its old skin. One moment, there's a bent-over shrimp, and the next, the shrimp has popped an inch forward, and there's an empty exoskeleton wher...

I have also witnessed ramshorn-hydra confrontations where both sides beat a hasty retreat. My snails were pretty small (1/2"), though. But apparently bigger ramshorns don't like hydra either. From what I've seen and heard, hydra generally disappear from a tank after a month or two, unless you a...

Today, for the first time ever, I saw one of my red cherries molt. It was over in less than a second--it looked like the shrimp sneezed itself out of its old skin. Does it usually happen this fast?

I have no experience with magnolia leaves in aquaria. However, I do know that many species of magnolia are native to moist areas of Asia and the Southeastern US, which also have many native species of decapods. In nature, magnolia leaves probably fall into waters containing shrimp and crayfish all t...