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Thanks for referring me back to the beg. facts. Reading something does not necessarily mean you will know what the heck you read. Because I did not buy shrimp with the intentions of breeding I wasn't looking to become knowledgeable on their sexuality and I did not see that marking/saddle as being ...

Here are some new pics I took today...they have developed a whitish stripe down their backs and they have quite longish snouts all of a sudden. Believe it or not, they looked like amano except for with an orange patch when I brought them home :D . The pics IMO suck, but hopefully you can see what I ...

Alrighty then! I have a couple of shrimp that are for the time being "no names!" Just my luck that I finally find somewhere that has shrimp and I end up with a couple that got mixed in with batches of something else. Oh well, they are beautiful no matter what they are.

Thanks for all of the replies :) . Let's see if I can respond to everything and get myself straightened out.
The filter isn't a HOB so to speak, but everything is under the hood and it does function just like a HOB with a biowheel. Apparently just covering the intake was not enough as for 3 days in ...

I bought 4 amano a few weeks back, the largest was a beautiful specimen who looked just like all pics I have seen. These 2 smaller guys have an orange hue to their backs that make me ? what they really are. Any suggestions?
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I have read thru the articles many times as I have been looking for shrimp for awhile now, they just seemed so lost in my 10 gal, but I have a feeling that my little "experiment" with this smaller tank is not going to cut it. I guess it will make a nice snail breeding tank for my puffers or a betta ...

I brought home a total of 9 shrimp a few weeks back that had been doing well in my 10 gal snail tank. I set up a 2 gal eclipse tank by seeding it to make sure it was ready for the shrimp. I covered the intake with a fine mesh material since the cherries were soooo tiny. Everything has gone well up ...