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Thanks everyone. I'm down to vacuuming half the tank each week on both tanks. It may not seem like much, but it really does make a difference. I'm looking into getting a couple more live plants as well. I've heard lots of good stuff about the python, but with tanks my size, it could suck up too much...

O.k. Thank you for the info!
I'm looking to expanding my shrimp population as well as trying to breed them. It sure is hard to find them, though. My favorite LFS that had the only variety around, just announced that they are going out of business

Ooo! Yes, I would like to know as well

Thanks guys, that's great news and immensely helpful info, I was starting to get an overwhelmed feeling about my tanks. They were starting to be more work then enjoyment, coupled with the worry of hurting a shrimp. I've done some research on picking out some low-light hardy plants that my shrimp wil...

Thank you for the info. My shrimp tanks are: 10gal with 2 female cherry shrimp (trying to get more for breeding and stocking LFS around here, but no such luck) and 3 guppy fry and 1 male guppy. 20gal. with 6 white clouds, 5 amano, and 1 bamboo shrimp. The main attraction in my tanks are the shrimp, ...

Hi everybody, I'm wondering what methods of cleaning gravel everyone uses. I've had a couple *really* close calls, particularly with my cherry shrimp, with moving rocks and fake plants and then going through the frustration of putting everything back safely while they are zipping around like crazy. ...

I stopped mine from doing that by tying a big artificial plant to the top intake tube(across the tank from the water outlet). He hangs out in there now, filtering away. From what I understand, they like a current and to hide, so it works out great

Putting the puzzle pieces together. I now believe I know what it was that killed my Wood Shrimp. I bought some Kent Marine Micro-Invert food. I was misled in being told that this is good for them. I believe that it clogs the gills on the shrimp. I accidentally killed him with kindness after attempti...

Thanks everyone, this is good news because I'm quite attached to him. It's so hard to figure out what might've gone wrong, or if he was sickly from the start.

Hello all, once again. The question this time is on a sad note :( One of my wood shrimps died. I had a bad feeling from the start with this one. It always had a yellowish tinge to it's coloring and never seemed very healthy. But this leaves only one now, and because I never felt completely comfortab...

Yes, one is doing that right now. They never both do that at the same time, unfortunately, so I get confused if they are just doing that to mix up their routine of sitting all day filtering the water, or if they are really hungry :( If I see one scavenging the bottom I squirt in some Kent Micro-vert...

I don't feed my cherry or amano shrimps unless I don't see their "food line". If I can't see any food travelling through them and they look empty inside(it's a little harder to see on the cherry shrimps), then I give them a Hikari Algae tablet. Now if it were only that easy to tell for my ...

I have a 20 gal. with 2 wood shrimp and 2 amano shrimp and a few white clouds and a 10 gal. with 3 cherry shrimp and a few wild guppies. A couple months ago at the LFS, I was told that adding aquarium salt makes life less stressful for the fish and shrimp. So I added in just a tiny bit: 2 tablespoon...

Thanks, and you're right. As the week went on things have settled down a lot in the tank. The cherry shrimp are lots of fun to watch!

I was fortunate to find 3 cherry shrimp at the LFS yesterday to add to my shrimpless 10gal, but I'm wondering if they spend all day hiding, tucked under rocks and come out to feed at night? ...or if my (too)curious guppies are picking on them. Any info greatly appreciated because if this is indeed, ...