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@redhotshrimp - Thanks! yes the babies arrive quicker than I thought. Once I got the water parameters right, all I did was leave the tank alone and the shrimp started coloring up and doing well. There is a sponge filter in the tank but it's off. I don't turn it on. The only thing mechanical is the h...

Update: Here is some video of my 5gal Opae Ula tank. Different colored adult shrimp grazing: https://youtu.be/TO7FrcRsQXc Babies floating around randomly in the tank: https://youtu.be/RUsQr05aekM I feel like the tank has settled and the parameters are right because they are reproducing. Very fun rig...

Nice video! Just saw these! Some of them look yellow-ish orange but definitely a different shade than red

Curious: can I just leave the filter in there and turn it off? Or does it make a different to actually remove the sponge filter. I was thinking of just unplugging and not turning it on but leave the filter in. May be algae will grow in the sponge?

Thanks for the advice. I'll stop feeding for a while and see if they eventually respond with some coloration. Looks like then if I get some good color on the shrimp, that's a good indication that the water paramenters/tank conditions are nearly optimum conditions... did I get that right?

I'm happy with whatever color they are, so white is cool, pink, yellow, or red. They do seem to change color, as you say. I have not seen any berried shrimp yet, but I think that's going to take time. I'll get worries if I start seeing casualties but I'm thinking everything is OK since they are active

They are doing well. No casualties. But most are still white. Some yellow in the photo. May be 2 are red pinkish. 5.5 gal tank. Salinity is right. No nitrates. I turned off the filter. 1x a week a very minuscule piece of Ken's spirulina pellet They seem to be doing well but I just have not seen them...

I've been away from the forum with the busy holiday, but checked back to find all these additional posts. Thanks so much for the input. I'll treat this like an experiment and try without the filter then. I do have macro-algae, Mustafa's algae ball (I cut 1 and now have 4 of them), snails and coral s...

so it's just a matter of preference? If it's preference, I feel the water quality is better with a sponge filter so I might go with that

I started another thread on this, so sorry for the redundancy but not having a sponge filter running is also a hard thing for me to do. Why is it better?

I'm loving my opae ula. I'm just struggling to make a paradigm shift --- why is it better not to have a sponge filter? This is a new concept to me. I always thought having a filter made the water cleaner. Please tell me why I should turn off my sponge filter in my 5.5 gal brackish opae ula tank. Tha...

I have pale, orangish and red shrimp. I don't mind. They vary in color and I think it's normal

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kYYPYzYUimI/XegHz_5IHwI/AAAAAAAAC_E/uCa1w1RhSBUisfZxzvLACn6_TrT7ALPbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/IMG_3560.jpg Thanks soooooo much to Mustafa for helping me get my shrimp order after a horrendous experience with USPS They are settling well in my 5.5 gal tank that has had plenty of tim...

it looks like staghorn algae which is nasty business. you just want to pick it out with tweezer as best you can

Shrimp larvae can become snared in hair algae and die. The chaeto and mossballs from this site are ok, and the surface algae that grows in your tank is ok. That's about it. Ah, got it. And thought it was a good thing to have the green hair algae. I liked the look of it but OK. It's easy enough to t...