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Hi all :smt006 After several years in the US, I am going back to Europe this Spring. I am looking for a person to adopt my shrimps, coming with all the accessoiries I have if needed. They currently live in a 2.6-gallon tank, the system has been very stable with little visible algea. They are mostly ...

That's strange, I have never heard of chlorine being in a tank without it being introduced by untreated tap water, bleach, or some kind of cleaning product. 808to503, maybe cleaning agents (especially in spray form) used close to the tank ? Or on your hands then touching the water ? Otherwise, I'd ...

Hello Mustafa. No, I haven't, after much reflexion. I'm only in the US for a few years, and I already get anxious about what I'll do with my tank when I go back to Europe. Additionally, I live in a very expensive city and don't have much room. For me to try to breed them, I would have to start a new...

Hi all,
Today I got extremely lucky ! A female with tons of almost-ready-to-go larvae stayed just in front of the aquarium, and close to the surface ! I've been able to capture the lil' critters up close
You can see it here : https://imgur.com/JhZIUiG

Awesome! :) Is your yellow one still around? Hi Mustafa, Well, I'm not sure it is always the same, and it doesn't always have this bright yellow, but every few days I spot a one or two opae with this yellowish color. I was able to take a picture of one that have almost no red spots, making the yell...

Love your photos! All were taken through the glass of the aquarium (none are with camera immersed inside the tank?) Please post more! Hi ! Oh no they are all taken through the glass. Technically my camera can go underwater, but that would be such a mess ! And would scare the little critters. I saw ...

Oople wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:35 pm That Almost Ready picture is amazing!

Then you might like the short video ! https://i.imgur.com/sxSaXgk.mp4
I'm a bit farsighted so the pictures and movies are also a way for me to see them better. Glad you enjoy them !

Marianne, your pictures are really great. That yellow shrimp is so vibrant .. almost looks like a highlighter! Thank you ! I think Mustafa's project to breed new colors is really great for that reason :lol: After a while without my camera (I left it on the wrong continent... :smt101 ), I'm coming b...

Awesome! :) Is your yellow one still around? Hi Mustafa, Well, I'm not sure it is always the same, and it doesn't always have this bright yellow, but every few days I spot a one or two opae with this yellowish color. I was able to take a picture of one that have almost no red spots, making the yell...

So, I discovered that there were yellow shrimp in an other post. I'll add pictures to this tread. I noticed that the yellow color is within the whrimp (picture 2), whereas the red coloration comes from dots on the shells. Even on the yellow shrimp we can see a few red dots. In an other post Mustafa ...

That's so cool! I've seen posts by Mustafa where he has shown some of his different colored shrimp, like orange, yellow, blue, pure white. His stock gets some colored "mutants." They are fine -- just a different hue. Oh, thanks for the info ! I found the posts after reading you... That's ...

Hi all, I just found a yellow shrimp (!) :shock: I suspect it to be a transparent shrimp eating one the yellow-ish algea I can spot in a few places of my tank. It's not enterely clear to me why the translucent ones eating green algea arn't enterely green, with the same logic. I can only imagine the ...

Some from Mustafa are like that. I remember one of the batch I received was more than half with a white stripe, whereas the previous batch had none.
We should ask him to push further the phenotype and have the little shrimp display a maple leaf in the white stripe

just some of my opinions... despite my findings and ideas... i still strongly advise everyone to cycle the tank first... unless in an emergency situation... Okay, I first understood your thread more like "cycling is useless let's get ride of it", but I was msitaken. Shrimps are very hardy...

I'm a little surprised by the answers, for me "not cycling" a tank is to avoid all together, except in emergency situations. Because your tank will cycle, no matter what you do. In any new tank system, cycling happens. Beneficial bacteria and algea (=processing ammonia/nitrites/nitrates) t...