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In the picture it's on half of a plastic straw, so very small... I'm pretty satisfied that it was an invader and not shrimp-related so not too worried about IDing it anymore, but would still be interesting if anyone happened to know.

I have this little larva looking thing that appeared on the surface of the water. It's not related to the shrimp or snails, right? The tank stays loosely covered so I think something just fell in somehow? I am removing it but wanted to double check that it's not something that's supposed to be there...

Why do they go around holding and carrying little strips of the macroalgae sometimes? Seemingly not grazing off of it, just holding it... taking it all over the tank.. is it just random or ? they like doing it for the fun of it? or the macroalgae got stuck in their pincers? Just curious

You might want to size up a bit in that case. It's more space for the shrimp to hang and easier to maintain a healthy environment for them with more volume. They're not fussy about the kind of container you use, could be anything glass from the thrift store so hopefully not too hard to go a bit bigg...

Okay, thanks everyone, appreciate it and now that i have the shrimp in there yes, they seem to like the big pile of rocks, and I don't mind them hiding. But, kind of realizing they like grazing on the sand which is mostly buried under rocks, so planning to uncover more of that soon.

Hi - I'm just curious if anyone has guidance for the ratio of rocks to open water within the tank, especially a really small one? (Mine will be just 1 gallon) I haven't set my tank up yet but was kind of thinking I would do a huge pile of them up against the side of the tank. But would the shrimp ra...