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Replying a little late here, but I wouldn't worry about shrimp chasing each other. These shrimp are incapable of hurting each other and the chasing stops eventually. Most of the time it's males chasing females for obvious reasons. I hope you added more prepared brackish water in the meantime. Don't ...

I have seen similar stuff before in nature, but I have no idea what it is. In the pictures it appears to be unattached. Does it just float around like that or was it attached to something before? Does it feel soft or is it kind of rough to the touch? Can you rip it apart easily?

From the pictures it's hard to say what kind of algae it is. It may not even be algae, but a type of cyanobacterium. Did this just spontaneously happen or did you introduce something from another tank or natural environment into your tank?

Thanks! That's an awesome shot! Really close like that they almost look like mysis shrimp.

Did you wash the substrate before putting it in? Did you rinse or soak the rocks? If not, then that's where the nutrients are coming from. Unfortunately, there's really nothing you can do besides waiting it out. Just don't feed at all until all the algae are gone. Keep thinning out the macroalgae as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!