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Congrats on saving the shrimp! For the light thing over the weekend; how about getting a mechanical light timer off amazon.com? That way the shrimp would have stable lightning. There's a cheap one for ~$9 ( linked it below if you want to look at it). Additionally, if you feel like you have too much ...

Really great looking tank! Thanks for sharing a photo. How many shrimp did you add to your tank? Any snails? 8) I ordered 20 shrimps, but I suspect the shipper added extra (I forgot to count them before putting them in lol). And yes! I absolutely love snails; there’s about 6 MTS, and even one super...

@attygirl: Thank you!!! And oh wow, that is a very long time! I’ve only had them in their tank for two days at the time of the photo Maybe like dch48 they were eaten ASAP?

@dch48: Yeah it’s really neat! I went to go look at them like 6 hours later and they were both gone already haha

Thank you! And I ended up getting your advice about not using gravel from my freshwater tank AFTER I set up and decorated my tank for an hour (which I ended up changing away afterward lol). I didn't really wash the gravel since I was afraid of getting rid of beneficial bacteria, so I bought a sponge...

I thought these molts were super cool since they were still attached to the lava rock and together

I got shrimp recently! I’m very excited about them; they’re in a 2.5 gallon tank. I’ve also seen two molts!

That really sucks Penny! Here's hoping that the rest of them will be fine...

I was thinking about using pretty much solely seashells to decorate the tank and provide hiding spots, and I boiled them beforehand. I had been thinking about lava rocks but I can only find them in like bags of 5 pounds more which way too many rocks! But since I would be using a lot of seashells, wo...

Thanks for the reply sliphorn!
Thank you for the advice! I've seen the directions on how to start cycling a brand new tank, but wouldn't it be faster to use stuff from a established tank? Or are there shortcomings (and if so, what are they)?

Hello! I’ve heard about these shrimps recently and I’m super excited about getting some! I have a few questions though. 1. I have an established freshwater tank. I’m planning on taking everything (substrate, water, and putting an old filter in there for a bit) from there into a gallon or two new tan...