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Super Jess wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 7:40 pm Looks like she's growing some eggs! That's where the ovaries are located. When the "spot" gets bigger we refer to the shrimp as being "saddled."

That could be possible too

That's just it's stomach that's full of food. The dark stripe is the gut or intestine. Being full like that is a very good sign.

My tank is close to a year old now and I have no visible algae either. There is a coating of biofilm on everything though. The macroalgae has grown some but really not that much. The shrimp are reproducing like crazy right now. I only feed a small amount of spirulina powder mixed with the distilled ...

Be careful with Hikari foods. They contain copper sulfate. Omega One foods do not. I think the best food for these shrimp is pure powdered spirulina algae which can be found online and is inexpensive. I put a little in every other week and the shrimp go crazy hunting it down. I just mix the amount t...

I always top off with distilled. Every once in a while, maybe 90 days or so, I remove a few ounces of the water in the tank and replace it with some freshly mixed brackish. I just do it to replenish some of the minerals that may have been depleted. I put back exactly the same amount as I take out. M...

Yes they need the light/dark cycle to be really comfortable.

Most likely oxygen or co2 produced by the plant life. The biofilm in the tank can form a thin slime coating that makes them last longer.

You've resurrected a 16 year old thread. You might be better off starting a new one.

As far as I know. The shrimp will only reproduce to a level that can be supported by available food sources. From what I have seen people say, they will self regulate the population. I haven't had mine long enough to personally confirm that but that's what is said. I have read a scientific study tha...

My API master test kit ammonia tests never show the exact same color as the 0 on the chart when testing any of my 4 tanks. They are always just slightly different. Different meaning never as bright yellow as the cards show. I would say that as long as there is no greenish tint, you are good to go.

I have just 3 final words. Wrong, wrong, and wrong on all counts.

Okay, but are you saying that your shipping bags are completely full of water with no air in them at all? I don't recall seeing that when I got my shrimp. Yes the spheres are sealed but there is at least 1/3 of their volume being air. Yes, full of water. Maybe a large air bubble in there. There's s...

If the sea fan was decomposing, the problem wouldn't be bad bacteria. The problem would be ammonia and/or nitrite levels that become toxic. I guess that could happen but hasn't for me. The macroalgae will absorb some of the ammonia as a nutrient but it will be good bacteria that will completely neut...

Okay, but are you saying that your shipping bags are completely full of water with no air in them at all? I don't recall seeing that when I got my shrimp. Yes the spheres are sealed but there is at least 1/3 of their volume being air. I don't doubt that some sea fan can cause problems but as I said,...

I have sea fan in my one gallon tank and have never changed the water in 11 months. I have not had a single shrimp death. My population has at least doubled. I believe it can only pose a problem if the dead coral tissue is not completely removed from it. I still think the main problem is the lack of...