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Definitely not a normal molt and the underlying tissue does not look like shell. This looks more like an injury of some kind and if so, prognosis is not good. Great photos but none of the shrimp shown were males. I'm sure color intensity of males varies with the strain and diet but I have brilliant ...

Hi SuzieQ.
Seems like good RC shrimp water to me.

Is it possible you only have females?

Also, I have found that I have my best results when breeding RCS is when there is thick plant growth especially Hornwart seems to give good results followed closely by Najas guadelupensis then Java Moss.

I have watched with some amazement as my RCS have been either accidentally or deliberately into other tanks, often during plant transfers, and have become established. So far there are self-sustaining populations in various fry tanks, domestic Discus, Heckel Discus, Apistogramma, Corydoras, and fanc...

Hi John,
I read your RCS profile and found it was pretty good. I think anything that helps expand the ranks of the freshwater invertebrate keeping hobby is a positive thing. The general lack of understanding is one of the most limiting factors affecting the expansion of the ranks.

I am in complete agreement with badflash's recommendation to use Prime vs slime containing water conditioners. I don't believe the slime has any important benefit even for fish nor does it harm them. There is one instance where the slime containing water conditioners have some uses. They are helpful...

I'm I understanding correctly that treatment of a shrimp tank with vermifuge drugs such as praziquantal and flubendazole has been found to be safe with shrimp? I have used flubendazole powder to control Hydra with great success ans it does kill snails which is fine proving there are not so many that...

I have to grow these up. I barely managed to get them before their parents died(presumably old age@~18 months. They are presently only about 3/8 to 1/2 inch and in a five gallon bucket, presently which is too small for my skills and point and shoot camera. I have so many more valuable fish breeding ...

I use microworms and some of the culture media which is rich in yeast and bacteria as the first food on the glass type shrimp. I feed the tank on faith that the larvae are present since they are not visible to my eys. After 3 or 4 weeks I begin seeing large numbers of miniature shrimp, already looki...

Hi badflash, You are right about bad days. Those are poor times to post. As I did describe before, the first time I raised a a bach of the Ghost shrimp from the four large femals I sold 200 to the LFS and also gave the remainders away in groups of ten and kept about 30. Not having bred them prior to...

Hi All, I'm probably over sensitive to having my statements doubted than is warranted. Part of the reason why I am is that I am also very particular about accuracy myself. I was not thinking precision to the Nth degree was required when dropping an approximate number of observed shrimp. After all wh...

American Glass Shrimp is usually P. paludosus and the max number of eggs per female is around 90. They breed in ure fresh water. The species that requires brackish water to reproduce have more babies per female, but the survival rate is lower too. Even with P. paludosus the survival to post-larval ...

Hi Badflash, I did not count them, just guestimated. The first time this species was bred and raised in my tanks was year and a half ago from four females I did raise over 300 shrimp. These were old large females. All that I kept from the original batch are nearing the end of their life span and are...

After letting the F1 population dwindle down to about 5 specimens I took two remaining females with eggs and hung them in a 8 X 10 fish net in the Dwarf Cajun Crayfish tank and removed them once the eggs had hatched. During routine maintenance today, I discovered I have many hundreds of new F2 gen. ...

Well done redfire. I found Mike Noren's account about a year ago and it seemed like good starting point. I would say 323 shrimplings from one female is a good indication that you gave them just what they required. Soon we will look back on our struggles to captive breed Amano Shrimp with a smile; da...

The experiments with maintaining RCS with selected other fish breeding projects has been working out. The Apistogramma baenschi are rearing families and the shrimp are not disappearing in a shared 20L, well planted; lots of hiding places. Also in one of the primary RCS prop tanks many odds and ends ...