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Is this male or female...

That is some expensive fish food

Baby Cherry Shrimp...

A lot of people use sponge filters. You can also use a hang on back power filter if you use a sponge of some type to prevent the shrimp from being pulled into the filter.

blenny wrote:Another one, green shrimps, they are more hardy then red cherry, and breed like hare.

I thought green shrimp were slow breeders.

This is a tiger shrimp, a mother to be enjoying a crab cuisine snack...

The ingredients list on Wardley's Premium Algae Discs lists Copper Sulfate. I contacted their corporate HQ and was told " there is not enough copper sulphate in the Algae Discs to harm the shrimp as long as they are not overfed." Are these algae discs dangerous to my shrimp?

Female Cherry Shrimp with Eggs

Q. What did the sick shrimp say when he took his medicine?
A. I hope I made myself clear!

Looks like the stork visited my tiger shrimp...

jwarper wrote: Still i laughed a bit at how absurd the site was and tried to think of a reason why someone would devote a website to such a thing

to sell t-shirts and refrigerator magnets

Most of the 100-200 shrimp deals seem to be imports from somewhere overseas to US. While these deals offer great prices there are risks involved as you unfortunately found out. You should have told your "partners" in the deal about the risks involved and shared that burden with them up front. If ...

The filter is an Aquaclear Mini adjusted to its lowest flow settting. The carbon was not used with only the sponge in place for biological filtration. The intake is shrimp-proof to the point that I was worried about restricting the flow too much but it has not been a problem so far.

This tank is currently home to 3 juvenile cherry shimp. Would it be overcrowding things to add 2 crystal red shrimp?