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Without pictures it's impossible to judge.

It's pre-mating behavior. The actual mating happens right after a femal molts, and it's belly to belly.

How is your tank doing? Are the deaths continuing?

Calcium by itself doesn't help keep the pH high, which is what we need in our Supershrimp tanks. You need carbonate, and in this case calcium carbonate. The wonder shell product does not contain calcium carbonate as far as I know. You need some real calcium carbonate, and then you don't ever really ...

Do you have a picture of your tank? Also, tell us what substrate and decoration you used.

Yes, a marine tank led will pretty much kill every plant in your tank, as it already did. You only need an LED that's about 4-8 watts. I'd err on the side of caution and just get a 4-5 watt light. You don't need anything fancy or aquarium specific any household LED will do. Also, see this thread for...

Ahhh, I see! :D I actually checked your email address to see if you bought from us before, but nothing came up. Maybe you used a different email address. The reason I thought you may have marimo balls and the wrong Cheatomorpha sp. is because the Supershrimp mossballs look huge, which means they hav...

Where did you buy this species of Chaetomorpha? This is not the brackish water species that we sell in our store. It looks like the saltwater version that is sold in local fish stores and online for reef tanks. That species stays green for a while and then dies off at these salinities, exactly as sh...

It all depends on how many shrimp you want to be able to see at any given point in time. You can start out with 10 and let them breed and fill in the tank over time, but you will probably only see about 4-5 at any given point in time, especially if there are a lot of hiding spaces. In a 2.5 gallon I...

Yep, you got lucky!

Not sure what that is, but it looks like cyanobacteria. I'd remove as much of it as possible. Also, if you really used "aquarium salt" meant for freshwater, it will kill your Supershrimp. You need to set up the tank with the appropriate salt meant for Supershrimp and/or marine tanks. So, i...

Your one gallon will be more than adequate for many years to come.

It's fine, but it won't provide any buffering and the shrimp won't pop out as much as on a dark substrate.

They are most likely hiding. You only see at most half of your shrimp at any given time anyway unless you have literally no decoration/hiding spots in your tank. Can you post of a picture of your tank?

Don't put any food in there...probably for months. If you see algae growth in there, they have enough to eat. The fact that they don't go for the spirulina means that you are overfeeding and the tank has enough to eat for them.