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Hello everyone, I had a bad surprise when I came to work today to check on my invert tank. I have a 10 gallon lightly planted (anubias barteri) invertebrate-only tank that is heated and filtered and been doing great the last month. I purchased 15 cherry shrimp from a local auction and they were doin...

Definitely a ghost shrimp. I have 3 in my cherry tank at work and they look exactly the same. They have no green like the pictures on Mustafa's ID page, but do have the red segments on the appendages when seen in the proper light. They will/should swim if you add food (if none is around) and they wi...

Slightly old topic but I wanted to chime in after reading through it. One of the likely causes (if not completely from the gourami) is the dense planting, especially of mosses. These are essentially living filters. Any detritus will get trapped in/around, and in particularly dense large bunches (suc...

Hello, I recently acquired 15 cherry shrimp for my work tank (10 gallon planted with anubias lightly). It already had 3 ghost shrimp. The tank has visible algae on all walls and I have been sparingly feeding flake and ground up algae wafers 1-2 times a week. I'm just wondering if I should cut out th...

One thing I noticed is that you are using an undergravel filter. UG filters have fallen out of favor in recent years due to the nitrAte factories that occur below the substrate surface. They draw down particulates and detritus that rots and fouls the water much faster than a canister/hang-on-back fi...

Hi Adam, I'd recommend disregarding the previous post as it contains quite a bit of bad information, will take much longer than a proper fishless-cycle method; not to mention is ethically questionable as you are basically poisoning "starter" animals for the sake of cycling a tank. Here is ...

The browning of the plants on the rocks does not sound good. Ula are very resilient in the shrimp world but probably cannot deal with the ammonia levels that rotting plants in the tank will cause. I would get a liquid reagent test kit and check the ammonia and NitrIte levels, and if you have anythin...

Ammonia bordering "OK" means it is not OK. ANY detectable ammonia or nitrIte in the tank is near certain death to the shrimp. Shrimp can die from ammonia levels BELOW the dectable limit in our hobby-grade test kits. You clearly are still cycling and this is not to be done with an invert ta...

Fantastic illustrated story! Could you comment on what camera/lighting you used for the extreme close-up shots?

-bettas can't be kept together. However, the female and male are only put together for a short while. The female has to be removed or he will kill her. We currently have ghost shrimp in with mollies (who have had a few offspring survive in our heavily planted tank with lots of driftwood, shells, an...

Terran, I'm pretty sure the OP means he has 70 snails, not shrimp. Snails are opportunistic breeders; that is they quickly breed to above the level of food supply in the tank and then fall back in line with how much food is available. Be VERY careful with that many snails because they have poor dige...

Very interesting thread. I love when posters bring back old threads and update us! I'm very interested in how heavily planted the tank is and just as importantly do you ever prune the plants? With no water changes in 3 years and stating you have hard well water, I would be interested to know what th...

I came in this morning after the weekend and my last remaining shrimp who had been in the tank for almost a month was dead. So with this last batch I started with 4, lost one immediately, then another a couple days later, then one about a week ago, and now the last one I found this morning. I'm real...

Round #2: I have taken delivery of another 4 Red Cherry Shrimp from my friend last Friday. Today there seems to be 3 doing fine, 1 has died. I did the drip acclimation for temp/water comp. and added them to the shrimp side of the puffer tank. They seem to be doing very well, however I notice a long ...

They max out at ~1 inch and are extremely (like all puffers) aggressive to tankmate Just for the record: South American Puffers are very social. Mine co-exist with Neon Tetras cheerfully. I have heard this many times. Just like people some puffers are well behaved, while others are serial killers. ...