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Well, been out of town for almost 2 weeks and came back to find about 18 floating larvae, so looks like a couple of new berried shrimp have hatched. They must’ve been berried during the crisis and stayed hidden. Glad to see these little guys doing alright. Tank wasn’t getting much light, so the macr...

Well, so since I performed the 80%+ water change, things seem to have stabilized. There are still a lot of dead larvae and juvenile shrimp tucked into the substrate, and I can't tell what happened to the eggs of the shrimp that was still berried. Could still be carrying them, could have dropped them...

So I performed the water change. Never done it before, but basically just premixed 1.010 SG water, and removed about 3 gallons from the tank. Tank is 5 gallons with well over 1+ gallon taken up by decorations, so must’ve been close to or more than 80%. A few of the shrimp I thought were dead are jus...

Don’t believe so. Only items are store bought substrate, lava rock, argonite rocks, and old coral. There’s a good deal of Mustafa’s chaeto, but I don’t think that would leech enough nutrients.

Oddly, most of the bodies are clustered in the corners of the tank.

Hadn’t fed them for months, heater seems to be the only new addition to the tank that may have led to this. In the pictures those show the just post-larval juveniles that had also died. But today I’ve now counted 8 adult shrimp that have died. I have no idea what could still be going on in there. Te...

That’s really sad, especially that dead berried shrimp. I actually just had a big shrimp larvae die off the past few days too. Only noticed about an hour ago. I don’t see any adult corpses but also don’t see many adults, so they seem to be hiding. I was also concerned about the cold weather, tanks w...

My shrimp have been breading like crazy heading into the winter. There’s consistently been at least a half dozen larvae and multiple berried shrimp at any day for the past couple of month. My tank was getting down to 60 degrees due to the winter, so I purchased a 50W heater about 5 days ago. Keep it...

Sadly, after about 3.5 years, my dwarf hermit has passed. I’m not sure of the breed exactly; when I ordered a second a month later it was the size of a lentil (shell included), whereas this guy was the size of a dime in his shell. He even ate the other one and almost all of 3 batches of snails. I ha...

I’ve noticed I’ve never had any real algae growth in my tanks. The only plant life is the chaeto I picked up from Mustafa. In my 5 gallon, a very thin layer of brown algae is on the surface of my tank, but looking at photos of some other tanks there are mats of green algae. Is this a good or a bad t...

Right on, sure enough I’m seeing free floating larvae now. Go figure, when I was eyeballing her as she hid under that rock, I noticed another one with larvae sticking to it hiding nearby. I confused them for a single one earlier. What’s more, looks like at least one but maybe two more are berried no...

Maybe I’ve never seen this part of the cycle, but it looks like the berried shrimp that I had (now one more after a long drought, excellent) seems to have had all of her eggs hatch but it looks like the larvae are all still clutched underneath her. Is this normal? In the past I’ve only ever noticed ...

Mystery solved I think! Did a bunch of water quality testing to make sure my pH and calcium levels were alright; added a bit of alkalinity buffer since that was low but I don't think that was the cause for lack of eggs. Then I remembered in my old bowl that I only fed my hermit once every two weeks ...

Hi all, I posted before that after a year my shrimp have never berried in their new 5 gallon tank, when they did in their 1 gallon. I tested today with some strips and they indicate ammonia, nitrates and nitrites are all good. But both my pH (7.4ish) and Alkalinity (40ish ppm) are too low. Is anythi...

Snails and hair algae also all seem happy, as well as my hermit crab. I'm pretty sure if you remove the hermit crab and stop feeding you'll see a "miracle" involving eggs and larvae appearing out of seemingly nowhere (at some point anyway). ;) Ya, I suppose when the hermit finally goes I ...

I'm having this same problem since I moved my shrimp into a 5 gallon tank almost a year ago. They berried and bred a handful of times in their 1 gallon bowl, but never in this much larger tank. O dice. Salinity is around 1.010-1.012, sides of the tank are greenish with algae. All are bright red so t...