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So I looked up what Brown Planaria was - and it could be live flatworms! The sticker on them said "open up live cultures."
So I reached out to one of our science teachers and he said that they are very active if they are alive in the water - and I did not see any activity other than the shrimp and ...

Thanks Mustafa and the rest of the forum for your helpful replies.

I will be ordering more snails soon ---and you may see why I might be ordering double the order I thought I was going to.

So the home tank is REALLY happy now - 3 pregnant ladies! But we move in 7 days - so I hope that they don't ...

Thank you for your help!
My husband moved the tank into a room that gets indirect sunlight - so I think the shrimp (and the algae) will be happier there! We took the plug in grow light off of the tank. I saw on a post that the light green algae can happen from lots of light but little nutrients.
I ...

Better pictures of the lucky lady in the school tank!
She loves hiding in the big green plastic plant - that is definitely her safe spot in the tank.

Again - any help regarding the snails and what or if I should test the water to make sure everything is good - would be greatly appreciated.
We ...

Thank you both for your advice - I see empty shells - and can't imagine that all of the snail is tucked away inside of that shell.

I thought that the snails were "hardier" than the shrimp...so I am at a loss for what could have killed them. I am just worried about the shrimp now - but they seem to ...

So all was going really well... it has been two months.
The tank at school (where I can watch them for longer - has lots of activity - the students love them!) I even got to see a shrimp clean the back of a snail and then he must have knocked his suction off - and the shrimp held on to the snail as ...

I just ordered my 20 shrimp - 10 for my home tank and 10 for the school tank!
Do you think that I will be able to open the shrimp, take out 10 and then close the bag up to take the other 10 in to school?
I am worried that I will have to cut the bag...and I need to keep the others safe and ...

Wonderful! Thank you both so much for your reply!

Here is the school tank - similar setup but the screen on the top is to keep students from making a bad decision! :roll: :lol:
This tank has some little dark things that are on the white rock. Could it be snail poop? Algae? or just substrate?
On ...

Hello!
I am new to the aquarium and shrimp world.
I stumbled across the Petshrimp site and I was hooked and I am so excited to order my shrimp!
I am setting up two 2.5 gallon NanoCubes, one at my house and one in my media center at my school.
I ordered everything from this site, except for the ...