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Thanks...no need to be sorry , though. They were from two different sources. One, captive raised for many generations by local hobbist, I've had for two months or so. The other source is wild caught crays I've had a month or so. I lost crays from both batches. The funny thing is that while I lost a ...

Anyone have any ideas on what would make me lose four cajun dwarfs in two days and have a female lay eggs on the third? :x Last time I had these guys, I got bored with them, they were so easy. This time, I feel like the most rank of amateurs.... At least I have the egged-up fem. Alright, I'm done ve...

I've had that exp breeding these guys before, losing some eggs during the process of incubation. I was never able to see the color change before, however. A look at the female and the few remaining eggs during lunch break has me thinking that NONE of the eggs were fertile. They've had a couple of ro...

I was just going to pm YuccaPatrol, but this is info some of you might be able to use. I'm having some trouble breeding my most recent batch of cajun dwarfs. No biggie, since in one case the loss of eggs was obviously due to overcrowding. In the second case, a female berried up in the middle of my m...

They actually have a brown, translucent shell, but they seem to be prone to pitting or other weathering of the shell, giving it a white appearance. I think these guys need a very high Ca++ level or very frequent water changes to keep from looking that way.

badflash wrote:It just means the diet makes sticky stuff. What are they eating?

It happens whenever I target-feed my vampire shrimp some Walter worms.

My very first ghost shrimp, back when I was 13 or so, used to actively hunt baby guppies. I never saw a kill, but I did see them get mosquito wrigglers on occasion. Looking back, I think this was because I never put any food in the tank specifically for them, relying on them to scavenge leftovers.

Just curious - how long do you let your tap run before you start filling buckets?

I am "in the business," so to speak, and the amount of BS that some aquarists (and I use the term loosely) sling about is amazing. Take it with a grain of salt. For your information, the #1 best BS test is this: Have they started the conversation by telling you how long they've been keepin...

Doing absolutely NO research into this before responding, I do know that arthropods re-absorb some of the non-chitin inclusions to their exoskeletons in the time before a molt, so I would think that appearance of - and even a chemical assay of - the molt itself wouldn't give a complete picture of wh...

Good news, and not too terribly surprising. Many species with very isolated distributions actually prefer different conditions from those in which they are found; they just aren't successful when in competition with other species in conditions under which they would otherwise thrive. A good example ...

Ooops - "caris" is Greek for shrimp. I , too am unable to locate a Latin trans. I'm sure there's one out there...

"Caris" is the Latin for shrimp. Hence Caridina ("little shrimp") and our bizarre Cambrian friend Anomalocaris ("Anomalous shrimp").

I just wonder what was wrong that she(?) died. The others all seem fine. After being in the hobby this long, I know "things happen," but it was quite a disappointment.

The proof is in the pudding - are they growing rapidly without health problems? Do they reproduce readily? Then they're OK.