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I bypass my water softener and put it in my tanks straight from the ground. The local region where I live has some odd ground water. I lived about 600 feet down the road and had well water that two water filter companies basically declared liquid rock out of my faucet. Snails thrived! My fish always...

I've seen similar worms on wild caught crayfish and tried to pick them off with tweezers, but once the crayfish was out of the water the worms seemed to retract into the crayfishes shell and I couldn't grab hold of them.

I've read that iodine helps shrimp/crayfish to successfully molt. Successfully being the key word here. I've had shrimp actually molt and just turn white and die. I have well water, and it's slightly on the soft side, but when I add iodine all my shrimp seem to thrive. I just recently read in a book...

Just an update, she's not in berry anymore.

I didn't get any young ones from the first spawn. When I saw the eggs on the tank bottom I assumed that they were infertile and immediately did a water change- oops. After reading Mustafa's article on these shrimp I saw the error of my ways (wish I had a pair of binoculars). I also learned the hard ...

Hi guy's, I have a fuzzy claw machro in berry at the moment. This is her second time in berry, but the male died while she was in berry the first time. Is it possible that the eggs are fertile? It's been about 6 months, at least, since the male died. Are shrimp able to store spermazoa the way some l...