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There have been rare cases where Prime has been a problem with inverts. Discontinue Prime and use another dechlor for 2 weeks and see if that clears things up. Also do a 30% water change when you get the new dechlor.

Sometimes they just get old, have a bad molt, and die. Or as they get old they get an infection of somekind.

Your water parameters look good though, so I don't think that was a problem.

In your case, since you have a small tank, I would do it gradually. Divide the salt up into 3 parts, dissolve 1 part in some tank water, and add the part slowly over the course of 1 day. Therefore, if the salt is in 3 parts, it will take 3 days to add it all in. That's what I do for my brackish tanks.

RCS do not seem to be hunters like ghost shrimp or macros, so I do not think RCS will chase after, nor catch, a mosquito larva. Better to feed it to your fish. Also, there are other larva which look just like mosquito larva on casual inspection. One is the midge, which does not bite at all. Midge la...

As far as I know, any measurable amount of copper is toxic to shrimp. Also, it's very hard to get copper out of a tank once it is there. I've heard rumor that even with a tank that has been stripped down and cleaned, the copper can soak into the silicone and such. I don't know if that's true or not...

Looks like orconectes virilis. I find these here in Kentwood, in Kent County. The orange tipped claws are common in o. virilis, but not guarenteed. But I do see the red lines between the tail segments, that's indicative or o. virilis. Do a search on Google images for more o. virilis. Shade and patte...

Wow! Did they luminesce by themselves or under UV light?

From what I've actually seen, RCS jump out of the net when netting them much more often than they jump out of the tank itself. So I have learned to put my hand over the net after I net the shrimp, and before I take the net out of the water. Last week I found a shrimp stuck to the glass above the wat...

I could not find the person's email nor a link to PM him, otherwise I would have. And I did a Google search, and did not find any other pictures of a yellow shrimp like this (one company sells them to eat, but it is not a bright yellow.)

Hi, Petshrimp has a gallery where I saw a bright yellow shrimp here: http://www.petshrimp.com/cpg/displayima ... at=0&pos=2 .
Are they a color morph of another shrimp?



Thank you.

Higher temperature water holds less oxygen, perhaps that added to the lethargy of your shrimp.

I do not recommend ramshorn in a fish tank as they multiply too quickly, like the physa pond snails. I am in the process of removing all ramshorn snails from my tanks and they are hard to get rid of.

The ramshorns I have are from a pet store's fish tank. They gave them to me free.

Hi Wendy, are those the shrimp I sold you?

To keep them from breeding, try to lower the temp to 68-70F.

Or add a platy, they like to eat everything small but won't harm adult shrimp.

I also did this. I had black gravel and did not like it at all. It made the shrimp's colors look too subdued. So I scooped out the gravel slowly with a flat edged container. Sometimes not all of them would get out of the container before I lifted it out of the tank so I had to shoo them away. They a...

My experience: RCS are not very good algae eaters but I hear amanos are. Algae is about last on their list of favorite foods. So they will eat the softer algae that tends to grow on your glass, if you starve them. They won't touch black beard algae, or hair algae. BTW, I breed RCS as a hobby and sel...