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I wish I had seen this site before I got my first shrimp. I feel bad for them. People on petfish.net had told me that I could keep them just fine in a small container. I don't think I will go back to that site. I am going to try and get my Mom to buy one of my gift certificates to the book store ...

I started a fishless cycle awhile ago for my 2 gallon and it has been a month since then about it has only a small reading of nitrite. It is supposed to spike Nitrite then drop ammonia to zero then the Nitrite is supposed to go to zero and the Nitrate is supposed to spike. I am using pure ammonia to ...

I guess alot of things could have gotten them. I had a bowl 1/2 gallon no air pump and no live plants. 4 shrimp with some gravel and a plastic plant and little tiki statue. I live in the USA so no idea how big a UK gallon is. I was told I could keep 4 of them in a bowl alive as long as I changed the ...

I already read that but it does not list stocking levels. I could have overfed them. :( The water conditioner I used is supposed to be safe for inverts and remove heavy metals. I use Novaqua+. Will iron hurt shrimp? The only things I can think of that could have killed them would be overfeeding, the ...

I got some ghost shrimp and they lasted 1 day. They were fine and they all just started dying and they all died. I had 4 in half gallon bowl as I was told on another site that it was fine for me to keep that many in a half gallon. I also have a water softener that the water goes through could that ...