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I dont think its bad or good. It's just an algae. I bet it would disapear with weeks.

For a clean tank you need a biological filter or setup a planted tank (walstad method or french low tech). You dont need any ozone, UV or charcoal. Many crayfish cut and eat plants, only the smaller ones dont like Procambarus alleni or all Cambarellus species. Some like Cambarellus can live with fis...

Absolutly.

Hello. In one tank I have a lot of Macrobrachium (probably assamens) with Macropodus, Tanichthys and Tateurndina fishes. In another tank I have Celestichthys erithromicron, the cousin of Celestial Pearl Danio living in the Inlé Lake. I want to make this tank a Inlé biotop... And Macrobrachium from h...

Batophora oerstedii ? Identified by Bruno De Reviers from MNHN, Paris. Confusingly, this large thing is unicellular and have one single nucleus, hiden in the "root". Mustafa, I think this why you where unable to grow it in your tank: you took a calceous shell full of chloroplasts from the...

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Hello. I received today 5 young Cambarellus diminutus . They are so cute and funny! http://i68.servimg.com/u/f68/14/22/39/68/20151112.jpg http://i68.servimg.com/u/f68/14/22/39/68/20151113.jpg http://i68.servimg.com/u/f68/14/22/39/68/20151114.jpg I wonder if its the smallest crayfish in the world. Th...

For me there is obviously those giant cells found in algae, so it's not a bladderwort (there is some marine and brackish ones, but they have plant like structure), but an algae. The spheres looks more like charophyta oospore than bladderworth plancton traps. I think the green ones are immature femal...

I think this is a Charophyta alga, maybe Nitella or Chara species, some are known as brackish even if the majority are freshwater. do they smell garlic when crushed?

Yes they can, but the offspring are very sensitive

I think its a scam, even for freshwater shrimps.

Mustafa (or ans other personnel with... hum...balls), can you do a very close up photo or even à microscopic view of your alga? Aegagropilla is clearly dinstinct from Cladophora in close up.

Are you sure about that?

I read somewhere that marimo balls can reproduce only in brackish water. Maybe you picked somewhere gamets or spores and the cycle had started in your tank.

Your snail is Radix balthica, a friendly algae eater.