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Update! I apparently just suck at raising baby shrimp. I originally had a filter turn on for 15 minute periods every 3 hours and rarely fed or turned on my lights due to fear of algae... well I changed this right before I left for a trip to hawaii I decided to only have my filter turn one ONCE over ...

oooookay.... so I decided to clean the aquarium up first in order to remove the filter and other NON-shrimp paraphernalia and start off with fresh lava gravel and clean lava rock aaaaand.... looks like they DID indeed breed... I believe I had 19 in there when I last posted and right now I counted 23...

Hey there, I am back... sorry I pretty much posted and vanished into thin air (online that is) shortly after I posted this picture I read that plants were a no-no and did get rid of the onion plant. Sooo yeah I am back to do some reading -_- because it's been a pretty long time, I still have all my ...

okay I have been gone for a looooong time, mostly because I have a tendency to forget things. I wanted to post an update. A few days after I posted this the shrimp emerged, all of them survived and seem to be doing just fine.... unfortunately no breeding :\ soooo now I am back to do a little more re...

Okay so I noticed two days ago after I added in my mini water heater that my Opae Ula are missing. I see maybe only about 2-3 swimming around. No corpses, maybe 2 molts. But no bodies. The filter is clean there is nothing stuck on it. The temperature is about 80.4 (it was about 76.0 when they were l...

Hi everyone! I joined this board about a year ago and did some quick reading. I have a big tendency to get distracted aaaand due to my nature I happened to get distracted. I'd like to again thank everyone who initially welcomed me to the boards and then apologize to all I left hanging with no respon...

Thanks everyone! There are soo many interesting threads on here to read about haha

Woo.. death by puffer tsk tsk... now I will never be able to look at my Valentini Puffer the same again

Hello! I am new to this too but I have read about this. When these shrimp get stressed out they shrink in size and change color. Has anything new happened recently? New move, tankmates bullying? Did you provide them with enough hiding places? Have you done any water changes? I just set mine up so I ...

Hello! I was not quite sure if there was an introduction forum or thread, I tried looking via the search prompts but couldn't find anything so I just wanted to all let you know who I am and why I am here :) My name is Laura and I live in San Diego (don't mind revealing location) I have been doing tr...