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That's good...and mine should be getting ready to molt right now (every time I add new shrimp to the tank or move shrimp from one tank to another they molt).

Thanks. The other shrimp seem fine now though...I think that one may just have been in poor condition at the store (they were wild caught accroding to the employee I spoke to). The others are active and eating well. Does anyone know if the scratching/cleaning with the front and rear legs is normal t...

One more thing I remembered is that I recently switched from Jungle Start Right as my dechlorinator, to Wardley's Chlor-Out because Start Right has "slime coat enhancers" that irritate my fish's skin, and remove heavy metals (like copper and iron, which I need to fertilize my plants). Coul...

I just noticed too that some of the other amanos are either cleaning themselves or scratching...I have never seen the one I already had do this. They are using their front legs to scrape their heads like a cat does when it is washing, and using back legs to scrape their backs. Is this normal and I j...

I have not heard/read good things about shrimp turning white...it seems to always be a forteller of doom. Well, I just bought 5 amano shrimp 2 days ago and added them to a 38 gallon heavily planted tank that already had other shrimp in it. The new shrimp were all very active when I added them, right...

Cool! I had no idea how shrimp bear offspring....there is prescious little info out there on that (on shrimp at all really). So they carry the eggs until they hatch? Do the parents care for their offspring after they hatch or do the parents and other grown shrimp have to be removed so the fry can su...

Oh...thank you! No one else seemed to know (and I sure know nothing of shrimp anatomy). That's great to hear though...I was worried they were sick.

I got some juvenile cherry shrimp recently and I am starting to notice that some of them are developing greenish opaque areas on their backs...is this normal? At first it was just one, but now I have noticed it on three more of them, and it always seems to be the biggest ones. There are zebra shrimp...