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Week three update
Big shrimp week

June 20th
Noticed that some of the the babies have well developed swimmers (pleopods) And whiskers (antenna) But not much in the way of legs yet.

The third mom is due tonight. So disconnected the power filter and left the lights on over night.

June 21st
A ...

Two week up date

Well I left the lights off 3 nights in a row. And each night I ended up with half of what I had the day before. I saw pockets of little bodies between the glass and gravel. So I decided to leave the lights on. I was down to about 15. Several days later, still have about 15. The ...

June 11th

One week old today. Things had been going well. They are growing. I can see a lot more detail to them a week later. But they started to disappear. Last night was the first night I left the lights off. And this morning I can only find about 20 of them. They have been hiding in the plants ...

June 6th

I did a head count today. Looks like everybody still there for the most part. I can easily count over 100. Then I noticed that some of them look different. They're no longer little floaters just hanging around. Now they look more like a backwards Z with a hook at the bottom. And as I was ...

Sorry to hear that. Try again in a few weeks?

We have floaters!

May 31
Moved two pregnant females into the 7 gallon tank. Temperature stable at 80 degrees. They didn't mind moving. They loved being in a tank filled with live food and quickly decimated my plankton population. And refused to eat anything else.

June 2
Both females look like ...

Little update:

My first mommy is due tonight. But due to techincal difficulties I didn't get her moved. I've had heater problems and had to play musical heaters to find one that worked in that little tank. My next two females are due on June 2nd and 3rd. If the temperature holds I'll move them in a ...

Thanks Andrew, That's a Pentax DSLR. I went that way because I had a some really good Pentax 35mm lens that I didn't want to give up. Despite all the glass I have, I've never owned a macro lens. So that's with an old 50mm lens and a 2x close up filter. The female is in a scratched up acrylic tank ...

Mustafa,

Thanks for the id. and the welcome. I based my choices primarily on information gathered on your site. I for one really appreciate the time and effort you have gone to in providing a knowledge base for the hobby. And will use it in the future if I decide to expand my shrimp line up.

I ...

Hi and happy weekend every one,

I wanted to say that I found this site a few weeks ago and liked it very much. Great information on different species. Now, I'll try to keep my story short:

About 6 months ago I bought some shrimp online advertised as 'Ghost/Glass shrimp farm raised in the USA'. I ...