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...but after reading some of the posts, I'm wondering if it was the Flourish Excel that I've been fertilizing my plants with that did them in.
I started a new tank for the dwarf crays last week: this week three of the females are carrying eggs!

I am trying to keep them in my discus tank which is in the 84F - 86F range. They seemed to be doing well for awhile, then they started to die off. Of the original ten I put in the tank, there are two left.
Anyone have experience with them at these temperatures?

I have a 20 gal XH tank with an Eclipse hood/filter. My bamboos station themselves in the outflow current of the filter to catch whatever drifts into their mitts.
I grind up algae flakes for them, they also eat mini-pellets and appear to eat frozen bloodworms that drift in the current. I also find ...

I used plant tablet fertilizer and wiped out a tank of RCS

Thank you, Gnatster, for your reproach and for looking up the link for me
Still new to this forum, but I'll learn

Myred cherries are breeding like guppies now, but I discovered some hydra on the front glass pne of the tank. Can they possibly catch and eat newly-hatched baby RCS? And if yes, besides tearing down the tank and starting again, what can I do to get rid of them?

Does anyone use this product as a filter medium in their shrimp tanks?

I keep my RCS in a 20 xtra high with an Eclipse hood. I replaced the strainer on the filter intake pipe with a sponge and it seems to work great. When I notice the return flow of the filter getting slow I know it's time to rinse the sponge.
The tank is fairly heavily planted, has no fish, with five ...

Thanks for your reply...
Actually I put 20 in the Eclipse and the remaining 10 in a 125 and I aclimated them all slowly using the drip method.
Is 20 crowded for a 6 gal Eclipse? The shrimp are so small (1/2"). As they grew I planned to farm them out to my other tanks...
I appreciate your insights!

I recently re'cd 30 red cherry shrimp form a guy through AquaBid. They arrived peppy and heallthy. I installed them in a well-established, heavily planted 6 gal Eclipse tank, and I guess they were fine -I say 'guess' because this is my first experience with this particular species of shrimp ...