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Do you have any test strips that would indicate if amonia levels are safe? Just trying to narrow down the variables.

Looks good! Lots of shrimp and nooks and crannies for them to explore in the lava rock. Are they consuming all of the pellets you're giving them, or is there any left behind after a few hours? You may already know this, but I've learned that unconsumed food pellets start to decompose pretty quickly ...

So after nearly five months away from my office, I finally made it in today to pick up some personal items. I found that someone had switched off the power strip that my timer+lamp was plugged into! I have to assume it was the IT guy who dropped off a headset on Friday for me to pick up today. If it...

I still haven't set foot in the office (where my shrimp live) since March 18, but a co-worker went in on Wednesday, and sent me a couple of pictures of the tanks. The good thing is that I could see the algae hasn't grown or shrunk too much, which suggests that things are in balance, and the lamp (on...

I haven't been able to check in on my tanks since my firm told us to start working remotely back in mid-March. I'm hopeful that all my shrimp are doing well. The light should still be cycling 11-on, 13-off. My biggest concern is that there two berried females in the bigger tank (~3/4-gallon), and th...

Well, I haven't set foot in my office since mid-March, so I'm sure those two nerite snails have long starved to death. I feel bad about it, but I didn't have a way to know ahead of time that I was abandoning my office indefinitely.

Also, the larger tank has more substrate for the snails to burrow into and feed in and also more surfaces to feed from. At some point you'll see them more often because they will have reproduced to a point where they have to even feed during the day (at least a part of the population) on open surfa...

The snails that Mustafa sells are not Nerites. They are a completely different species commonly known as Trumpet Snails. Nerites do not have pointed spiral shells like Trumpets do. True Nerites will eat the same things as the shrimp and maybe too much of it which is why it's my opinion that no more...

I have 3/4-gallon aquarium with 10 shrimp. I originally added about eight nerite snails (purchased from Mustafa) to that aquarium, but I see no sign of them. I think I might have spotted a dead one wedged down in a crevice between rocks, but the others never make an appearance. The shrimp all seem t...

Two of my females have released their young. One looked to have only 5 or 6 eggs but the other one had about a dozen. I now have about 18 floaters bobbing around in my little one gallon tank along with the same number of adult shrimp. That's exciting! I'm curious to know how it goes and if all the ...

I just quickly shot some video of one of the berried shrimp and thought I'd link to it here: https://youtu.be/NagthuZtO2E It was just shot with the digital macro on my Samsung Note 10+. Since I have curved glass that wasn't intended for aquariums, there's probably little point in me trying to use a ...

Quick correction to my previous post. The tank is supposed to be 6" diameter by 10" high. But, that should have been more than enough for a gallon of water. I didn't take into consideration the inner diameter would be about 1/4" smaller, the imprecision in manufacturing cheap glasswar...

OK, I've finally had a chance to figure out how to post photos, and I have some news... First things first...Thanks to everyone who has provided advice. I really had no idea what I was doing when I started. As I mentioned, I've never had an aquarium before. The big news is that two of the shrimp in ...

I bought a cylindrical, glass tank (really just a vase) with the stated dimensions of 8" diameter and 10" height. That should have been more than enough for a gallon of water, but what arrived was a little smaller than the stated dimensions, and after adding the substrate and lava rock, it...

Well...After fretting over it for days, and then coming back to the office following the holiday, I'm happy to say that it seems like all four shrimp are now doing well, and it seems like the issue with the molting has resolved.