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I would say it's _very_ good news! Molting means they are growing, which means they are getting their nutrients as well as feeling comfortable in their new environment. I personally think the molts are really cool, and it's crazy that they all happened in the same day. Congratulations!

Thanks! Yea, I have spent way more time lately staring at the jar trying to spot the little things. I did manage to get a couple of photos and a video, but I can't figure out how to link the video, so I'm going to just link to my Google Photos album, and they are near the end of the album currently:...

I have floaters! I've spotted at least two in the jar. It's pretty awesome how easily they can vanish in just a 1g jar. The board doesn't seem to want to let me upload a video, so I'll link to my existing album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LxDqKr4MjYPLvf4TA The last three new photos/video show one of ...

I was expecting Vorteil to check in and win this thread with his jellies.

I HAVE BABIES!!! I spotted two teeny little floaters in the tank today! Definitely little bebbe skrimp, because when one of the adults bumped one, it did the little tail fip thing and scooted backward real fast. I haven't been able to get a good picture, they're hanging out in places in the jar wher...

Unfortunately you may be too late. The best you can do is a total water change with clean brackish water and hope for the best. Good news is that supershrimp, well, they are super tough, so there's still a chance as long as they're doing ok in the container with the clean water. If the worst happens...

It's probably just bits falling off as it gets established. When I first put my jar together I had fragments around for a while before it finally settled down and started growing. I wouldn't worry about it, at the worst, it'll turn into food for your shrimp.

Your photo looks remarkably like my jar when I started! The only thing I would suggest is that now, before it gets established, put a lot more lava rock in. You can go to the local home improvement store and get the red lava rock. Rinse it THOROUGHLY, then rinse it a few more times with distilled wa...

I've honestly never had much of a hiding situation in my shrimp jar. They're almost always zooming around and being active. It may be environment or maybe just you have some extroverted shrimp!

Your tank is very cute BTW!

Thanks! I got lucky with her having a light behind her, which turned out great. I also was contorted over the counter top with my phone (Pixel 6) trying to keep her in focus and still hit the take photo button!

It's my first berried female! She's only carrying a few, but I hope she holds on to them! So excited!

I just dumped a big handful of lava rock into the jar. It's only a 1g jar (think like the thing you'd make tea in, at least in the South where I live anyway...) so it didn't take much. They went in all jumbled and made a lot of little hidey holes naturally. (Although I almost always see my shrimp zo...

Personally I'd plan on about 2g of water, because rocks, gravel, decorations, etc, will take up the remaining space. So ideally you should be able to fill it to the top once you have enough gravel and rocks in there for the shrimp to be happy with. So for example, in my 1g jar, I have less than 1g o...

Once your tank is set up and established, you should never have to feed them. The biofilm that builds up will be enough to feed the shrimp. Any additional food you put in the tank will probably start to rot and cause an ammonia spike which can harm the shrimp.

It's really hard to tell from the quality of the video exactly what they could be. MTS can carry certain parasites though, and it could be that throwing the snails into brackish water has drawn them out. I'd just keep an eye and make sure you don't end up with a bunch of dead stuff messing up the wa...