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I'm so excited that my upgraded tank is up and running! Thanks to those of you who gave advice on the weird stringy slime I had in the first week or so after initial setup. As you predicted - it went away after about a day. I added rocks and coral, and ~1 week later had some good algae growth going....

I can't even seem to really touch it - it just disintegrates. I'm waiting a few more weeks anyways to cycle and get good algae going before I add shrimps, so I'll wait and see. Hopefully it will also go away on its own. Thank you!

I am starting up my 3rd 'opae tank right now to upgrade my babies. :) My 20 shrimp from Mustafa 2.5 years ago have turned into several hundred in a 2.7gal and a .9gal - pretty much don't feed either of those (maybe 2x/year?) and they are all doing great and having babies left and right. (The tiny ta...

Thanks all! As those weird larvae became bigger, it was super apparent that they were mosquitoes (and super gross). I was able to get a fine-mesh net and scoop them out carefully over a couple of days - making sure not to scoop my precious opae larvae! All has been good and mosquito-free since then....

Crap-tastic. Yeah, that's what I had been thinking based on further research. Ok, so mosquitoes - I've covered the strip that the tank lid didn't originally cover. It's not air-tight, but I think it will keep out adult mosquitoes. I've ordered a small dip net with much smaller mesh (my current one w...

Here are two photos of the unknown wiggly animal ...

Two photos of the setup, berried shrimp, and algae (still cannot get photos of the tiny white worms/larvae).

Update (and question): To review, I started with 30 shrimp, and 10 snails in January. I've got berried shrimp! Noticed the first in early May. I think I got up to 5 or 6 berried. I saw the first larvae on May 30. Now there are a few tiny shrimp, and I think 2-3 more have released larvae, with at lea...

Thank you both so much! I was debating, but may get some snails after all. I was thinking about making a 1 gallon tank for my office (so I can enjoy 'opae'ula all day at work and at home). ;) So perhaps I could put most of the snails in the big tank, but a few of the snails in the 1 gal and move may...

Aloha everyone, I've been avidly reading these discussion threads and have found them extremely helpful! I recently set up an opae'ula tank and have a few questions I was hoping to get some thoughts on ... I have a fair amount of brown algae growing on the sides of the tank and getting worse. I know...