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If two shrimp look exactly the same, except that one has green eggs and the other has whitish eggs, does that mean they belong to different species?

At first, I thought the color difference was due to different stages of egg development. But it's been over a week and the colors have not changed.

It depends on how strict your customs people are. Do they search every inch of your luggage?

I find that airlines are far more strict with handcarried items than checked-in baggage. So what I usually do is find a small styropore box, put the shrimp (in bag, of course) in my check-in luggage. The ...

Sorry, this was the best I could do. They don't look too different from yours, but they are more opportunistic as scavengers. The micropincers I spoke of are those teeny-weeny forks (more like toes, really) at the end of the forelegs, just barely visible in the first photo.

Funny, I never noticed ...

Can you access the bio filter media in your Seaclear--meaning can you take it out and transfer the balls into another filter?

When I set up a new tank, I usually put extra filter media in the existing tank. If they fit in the filter, well and good. If not, then I put them in a mesh bag and place ...

Pretty sure. Some of my amanos are nearly 2 inches long. When they reach that size, those micro-pincers aren't so micro any more. Last night, they polished off a harlequin rasbora and a juvenile cardinal tetra.

To their credit, I've never seen them attack a fish, unless it was too weak to struggle ...

My amanos survived despite two angelfishes and two dwarf gouramis. If anything, they became a little too successful. If any of my smaller fishes, like the cardinals and harlequin rasboras, got too dazed to swim properly, the amanos would quickly tow them and host a sushi buffet.

First of all, I'm sorry that I have no pics to show, because my tank is a low-light set-up, and my camera has such bad shutter-lag that it's impossible to catch these creatures on camera.

Secondly, I live in SE Asia...just so we can rule out certain species like the American glass shrimp.

I bought ...