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Our local LFS does not carry ghost shrimp. Yet they can not order anything but ghost right now. I guess there are different areas in which the fish come from different wholesalers. Everything around here comes from Atlanta.

Ok here are my conditions. Temp 71F, pH 7.2, ammonia 0 before introducing and 0.25ppm this after noon before I did a partial water change and got it closer to 0 than the .25 by color before the last 2 died. I had a single bunch of plants in the tank. I made a mash of fish flakes that they readily to...

I got my killies and shrimp yesterday. I lost 2 of the ghost shrimp so far out of 14 and I only bought a dozen so still have a dozen. My killies are happy. I had to use pH down as filtering through peat was not working fast enough. I tried some hard wood leaves and like you said the water turned to ...

Get several five gallon buckets with lids. I moved a 20 and a 30 gallon tank 600 miles. I had the opposit problem. It was mid summer and I had to keep them cool. Fill the buckets 3/4 of the way full with water from the tanks. The room will allow some sloshing of the water to keep it aeriated. We sto...

Thanks all. Well as of now time is to short so I got a bottle of ph down. I will try the peat moss filtering my water aging bin.

I understood what species they are. I was just making a point that these have a greater value than feed. I hate the idea of capturing wild anything to feed to another species. All our natural food chains are so disrupted. I am sure the guys harvesting these do not care for the wild population. We ar...

I intend to keep shrimp to clean tanks and eggs(my killies are coming lol). I am using the common ghost. I am setting up a green tank(brightly lit with plants) for growing the shrimp. All extras will become food for my cichlids. Now if I can find red cherries I would find them to pricey a meal. What...

I tested my pH tonight along with the other things. My ward hardness is medium to medium low(cheap test kit not giving a ppm). My pH is high. The kit only goes to 7.6 and that is still to light of a color for what I got. I checked it 3 times and all 3 times got the same result to be safe. From raisi...

Even they admit they can not raise enough. Killie fish take alot of space as well. Many killie breeder keep a couple pair of each and do not let them spawn because of space problem(why I am only going to have 2 for now). It is not the investment. They only have 2 species right now and one is mixed b...

I am brand new to the site. I did read several of the forums and even posted to one. Here is a little background on me. I raised tropical fish years ago. College, Marriage, and finally kids push my tanks out of the house(except the community tank and hospital tank). I now have 2 55 gallon tanks(one ...

The AKA( American Killifish As.) has a egg and fish trade list. Something simular would be nice with shrimp. You can either buy the new species/variety or make trades.