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I had a few dwarf Mexican crays with shrimp they were chopping bits off the shrimp too, so I removed the crays, the shrimp grew back the missing bits after a few molts.

The shrimp gave birth to her young and now has eggs again, maybe she is getting new eyes but I cant see them she is still moving about slowly. Thanks for the advice, I guess it must have been a water quality issue, though I dont know what could have been wrong. Thought I would say thanks and give an...

I noticed this poor shrimp being unwell three days ago, her eyes were swollen and black. She was slow but eating. She clearly couldn’t see, one of the eyes has cleared (the eye is now missing) it had a black protrusion sticking out of it yesterday, it looks as though the eye socket is still there. T...

Really good pics and well documented. Its amazing how they can regenerate. I have a Cameroon shrimp I got with a middle leg missing, it took two moults but he got his leg back.
Thanks for showing the excellent pics.

I ppm No2 is a problem, its enough to kill the shrimp, even more so with newly introduced shrimp, (No2 being nitrite), N03 is nitrate which of course would be no problem at 1ppm. Any Nitrite is a big problem for shrimp make sure the tank is fully cycled with zero No2 before adding any shrimp. Good l...

Thanks for the feedback and attempts to help. I have had the shrimp nearly three months. I don’t see much of it as it lives in a dark corner of the tank under some wood. I got it from an LPS (LFS) with five other shrimp all of which are cherries, they think their dealer got the shrimp from Israel. M...

Had a look through the species list to try and identify this guy. The shrimp was supposed to be a cherry but doesn’t seem to be, quite different in look and behaviour, I rarely see it its quite shy hides most of the time and only comes out after lights out. If anyone knows the species I would be ver...

I think shrimp prefer sand, they spend lots of time sifting through it and turning over the grains, they seem to find lots of food on it.