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Wanted to share with you guys the link to my Picasa album of my 20G planted tank which is the home to 1 ghost shrimp, cherry shrimp that I lost count of, neon tetra and some snails :-D http://picasaweb.google.com/fishbon3/20gFreshwater Pics are much better uncompressed Here's some shrimpies http://l...

Shrimp are just about the most sensitive as far as I know. When crap went wrong in my tank, the death order was shrimp first, snails second, fish last.

I ... uh ... got nothin'. I hear ya, it's frustrating to say the least. My experience with shrimp has been similar, at least as far as ghost shrimp are concerned. I don't think they are well taken care of to begin with. I had ghosties lay eggs and hatch in my tank and that seemed to be key to succes...

What worries me a bit is the changing the whole water part. Are you sure the tank is well established?

Luckily I never had to use the back-up plan. I have a computer UPS battery which is capable of running the entire set-up for 3 hours and that includes the 60w ceramic heater. If it lasted more than that, I'd probably take the crabs out of the tank, place them in a 5.5 gallon tank and keep them warm ...

Shrimp won't die right off the bat. Some do, some don't. It entirely depends on how each of them handled the transition. Like Mustafa said, I don't think ghosts are capable of killing even if they wanted to. I have had ghost shrimp live with cherry juvies and still do and have not had a problem.

This thing won't die! I've had this guy for over 2 years now! I always thought they lived 2 years at most. He's huge. I'll try to snap a picture of him. Well, "her", actually :-D She is the only ghost shrimp left of the 10 I had when I bought them as a "test" to make sure the tan...

I apologize if I am being dense and missed something in your post, but for clarification, did you purchase both the ghost and cherry shrimp at the same time? If not, my guess is the cherry shrimp did not acclimate right, died off, and the ghost shrimp started munching off them. When I bought my batc...

It could be any and all of the things that you just described. I too, fertilize with Excel. Are you following the dosing recommendation to the letter? If you overdose, it will kill period. Try dosing every other day, 3ml at most. Your liquid fertilizer will also prove to be inadequate in the long ru...

I'm cleaning my HOB just now and I found 4-5 trapped ghost shrimp babies in there. They are tiny and I am picking them off with a dropper and placing them back in the tank. However, I've also found something else in the water. Best I can describe it is they look like a torpedo. Elongated body with s...

Not here, but then again I've always dosed on the low side. So low, in fact that if I go any lower my plants start showing signs of deficiency. As of now, the cherries are doing GREAT! I'm trying to get the guy at the pet store to catch me some more. I have an idea, set-up an algae wafer inside a pl...

Yay me :) Well, it's been ages since I've lurked the boards, figured I'd post a little "what's new" :) Back in March I upgraded from a 10 to a 20g (regular) tank, I basically transfered everything into it. Eco Complete substrate, crypts, java fern and 6 neon tetra. I already had some ghost...

I don't have experience with crayfish, but pool filter sand works great in my crab tanks. It is coarser than regular play sand, chemically inert [does not affect water parameters] and sinks right to the bottom. Doesn't float around, no "dust" and doesn't clog anything because like I said, ...

Sounds good, I'll go ahead and separate the pregnant females. Hope I won't manage to kill my java moss due to inadequate lighting I was told that even if the filter intake doesn't kill the fry, water movement will. Really, NO water movement whatsoever?

Oops, I read over my post and I need to clarify a couple of things. The plankton I'm talking about is in fact dry phytoplankton comercially available from Two Little Fishies. Should I just drop it in the tank [reasonable amounts of course] and let it float at first and then sink by itself, or should...