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I'll try more floating plants - I also looked back for threads on this and I *guess* RCS do eat BGA...maybe I'll throw one in a see if it cleans it up. I know this isn't an algae forum but if RCS eat the BGA in the grass shrimp tank my problems will be solved. The grass shrimp sure won't touch it. I...

Well I decided to turn the photperiod back up to ~12 hours and they started regrowing their saddle. Pretty amazing. Now I got a serious blue-green algae problem...I dunno what to do now. I don't suppose RCS would eat it.

My P. pugio shrimp tank is all over the place lately. I've had a blue-green algae problem in it and when daylight savings came around I decided to cut back on the photoperiod from 12.5 hours to 9 hours. This resulted in all of the females loosing their ripened ovaries (saddle) after the next molt. T...

My 2 cents: Although not proven to be impossible, it is unlikely that species with the Palaemonetes genus (as currently described) will interbreed (produce offspring). It's even been shown that offspring of the same estuarine Palaemonetes species collected from geographically distinct areas generate...

Good question neonshrimp - I wish I could tell you my conclusions but I'm still learning. My main effort has been to breed Palaemonetes shrimp that can live and breed in 100% freshwater but my main tank has been a hodge-podge of species. The problem is I really enjoy heavily planted tanks with DIY C...

I think that this nematode parasite in ghost shrimp is very interesting and I've tried to contact a few researchers to ID it. It seems to be a member of the Nematomorpha phylum but the exact (aquatic) species seems variable and numerous. Perhaps juvenile Nectonema agile if seen in shrimp shipped fro...

Hey - I have also seen Palaemonetes do the same thing. The grain wasn't very big - not much wider than the width of the claw. It rubbed in over its front carapace. I wondered what it was doing and I thought maybe it just didn't realize there was a grain stuck in between its claws as it cleaned as pe...

What are the natural habitats of the most common freshwater shrimp from Asia anyway? I always pictured rocky streams carpeted in algae and maybe some grass down in the pools. Any benefit to replicating the native habitats?

I posted a few weeks ago that I bought a couple P. paludosus grass shrimp hosting some kind of (relatively common?) nematode parasite - maybe horsehair worm (I don't really know). I posted a pic here: http://mygrassshrimp.googlepages.com/parasite_s2.JPG So with a "little knowledge is dangerous&...

Yes - I covered the vents with a plastic mesh used to hold charcoal material and sealed it on with silicone. About 1-2 days before hatching the larvae's eyes in the eggs become very bright (with flashlight and magnifying glass) and then ~1 day before hatching the eggs swell up a bit. When I see brig...

So all of your suggestions are well taken. My success rate must be <2% with hardened freshwater...as I only have two juveniles now. 100% loss with last brood. If it is possible to selectively breed a freshwater tolerant P. pugio it'd take a lot of effort. Anyone selectively breed shrimp other than f...

Glad you enjoyed the pics. I'll see what other poor specimens I can put under the scope... Here's a top view of a palaemonetes ghost/glass shrimp with an internal parasite. I was wondering if there was a way to stimulate the worm to come out...or maybe raise the temperature to kill it? These infect...

I bought a few "Glass Shrimp" from the LFS today that were shipped to them from Florida. I noted that a few shrimp in the LFS tank had "white ribbons" inside as discussed in this post . I thought this might be a horsehair worm...anyway turns out the kid who bagged my shrimp gave ...

I found that table hard to interpret...It implied to me that non- M. ohione species were all introduced. It wouldn't surprise me if Macrobrachium species were collected somewhere in CA - escaped from aquaculture farms or ship ballasts. I've used this USGS Report to figure out what introduced shrimp ...

I believe that's a Horsehair Worm.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ho ... gle+Search