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With my bad knee I have to wait for my husband to hook up the camera cable to the PC, I'm bugging him about it! Cool thing, the shrimp moulted this morning and he was crimson colored! Glorious! his squiggly lines were red and there was a red overlay on his stripe and tail. I thought I had the ugly d...

badflash is right - I've been trying to keep a variety of shrimp in a tank that is simply not suited to them (or to plants). I can't keep the tank clean enough and the current is too strong for them. I tried anyway and wasted a lot of money and heartache loosing a bunch of cherries and some other va...

frugalfish, thanks for the input, but this guy is dark brown with a wide glittery golden/tan stripe down the back and it's entire tail is the same color so I'm unsure, the only shrimps with this pattern I've seen before were called wood shrimp, of course I don't know if that's what they were either ...

The Petsmart labeled "marble shrimp" were mostly asian filter feeders and Lady Friesian, I do believe that grow to the size Mustafa put in the shrimp varities section. As I said one of the ones in the tank was already 3+ inches long. BTW, they were only 2.99 each at my Petsmart. I'm still ...

OK, the shrimp that was falling over after moulting has recovered. He has taken up residence seperate from my other vampire shrimp for the first time but appears to be healthy. You were right Mustafa! The other gabonensis has a couple of red pock marks on her legs that I am concerned about. I saw th...

Thanks all, thanks Em for the encouragement. I think I'll be up to this in a month or so and I'll see if I can get one of my friends to help me. My husband is too scared he'll hurt things so he's only good for hauling around 5 gal buckets well, he's good for other things non-tank related...

I'm not sure what you bought. I use a product called "Plant Sinkers" by Blue Ribbon. they are non toxic. I love java fern attached to my bogwood but it's awful to take it out of the tank to attach a new specimen so I put a weight on them and drop them in the bogwood hole I want them to gro...

Cool! I have my fingers crossed!

Or something else? Went to Petsmart to get cuttlebone at advice from the forum to keep calcium levels up and saw shrimp! Never before have they sold any except ghosties. The label said they were "Marble Shrimp" that grow up to 1 inch. This was extremely amusing since one of the shrimp in t...

thanks for all the input, ya'll rule! I never even thought of putting everyone in a tub and just setting up and moving them to the new tank. I can see this would take many hours of concerted effort but it seems worth it to me. Yes, I can transfer my bioballs, sand, bogwood, plants, etc. I'll just ne...

I've posted my problems with the Seaclear II 46 gallon bow I have. I am giving up on this tank, it is impossible to keep a planted freshwater tank with shrimp in it due to the filtration system. An expensive mistake that I am over. I would love to have some input on how to switch to a "normal t...

Thanks!

And my bad, the really white one is a malaysian, the ones I got from Mustafa just have the tip white.

keep us posted, I'm very interested. I have two vamps also. The LFS guy believes color indicates sex in the juvies but I don't really believe it. Nevertheless they sold me one blue (a beootiful aqua) and one pale pink vamp, they are about 2.5 inches and have moulted twice. Thought I lost pinkie afte...

I bought a few of Mustafa's snails at least 6 months ago. Having had knee surgery I hadn't been paying as much attention to my tank as I should. I'm looking at it now and see that the older snails, especially one grandpa that is nearly an inch long is almost entirely white. First whorl is yellow the...

Mustafa, I posted my response before I saw your posts/rants about iodine/iodide. I can see your point of view and didn't realize I was hammering a sore spot :smt021 . However, I tried it because it appears to do no harm and while there is no evidence it helps, there isn't really any evidence that it...