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Well she had three when i left for vacation. When I returned there were two babies floating around the water. I'll take it. They're so cute! They just float head down and so desperately try to swim but get nowhere :3

How long do they stay like that?

I also have tons of algae buildup. While I have my shrimp in their transferring container, I was going to clean the main tank and all of the substrate and rocks. Would the best way to keep the walls from getting too crowded again be to buy the pack of snails Mustafa sells? If they are the best, shou...

Can you post all the stuff you PMed to people? I'm really curious about adding these guys to my tank. If you don't want to post it, you can PM me. But i'm sure many people would appreciate the specs on these guys

I ended up moving them into a Tupperware. It was exactly the right size with the substrate, without there's about an inch of room at the top. When moving her, my pregnant shrimp dropped at least three of her eggs. They were riding on her belly and she just dropped them in her desperate attempts to f...

If i was to cover their current tank with cling wrap, do you think it would hold for a few hours? If it works i couldn't have to move them at all.

I'm so excited! Today I spotted my first pregnant shrimp!! She's got at least 7 eggs that keep moving around in there, like little balls rolling past one another. How come they move so much anyways? Besides being super excited, i'm a little worried. I move back home from college in three weeks and w...

You bring me hope for my own tank. Thank you!

UPDATE! They're both doing GREAT! I didn't realize how tiny they were until I put them in and they were around half the size of my own shrimp. All of these shrimp are about the same age too. I Can't help thinking i got them in there in the nick of time. Since they're been in, the two new ones have b...

So pretty! Thanks for sharing

Well I just finished moving them. It went pretty well. I had a little trouble with the glue, and had to get inventive with the dumping, but once I got the shrimp into a Tupperware, it was smooth sailing. I've seen for sure one of them milling about my tank. She seemed to just be sitting at the botto...

Thanks so much! All of the shrimp in my tank do well with the swimming out method. Maybe they've just gotten used to it as I've had to travel them to transfer containers at the end of the school year/summer a few times. The tank is a full gallon with about a third of it full of the chaetomorpha boug...

I already have a well established tank with 6 shrimp in it. My friend has recently given me her ecosphere with two shrimp in it. It used to have four and she doesn't want the other two to die, and she liked my tank, so she asked me to care for them. My plan was to give the shrimp a few days to accli...

Thanks guys!

I'll just leave it alone at 17 ppt then.

Well i had to refill their tank so I checked their salinity at the same time and tweaked it a bit.

I wasn't sure if they were doing ok, that's why i changed it. They didn't seem to be as red as everyone else's

A few months ago I had changed it from mid to high 20s ppt to just below I think. I'm not entirely sure. After I posted my last comment I changed it from around 21 (I think) to 17 ppt. They don't seem to be very happy. Should I add more salt to raise it where it was 2 days ago, or just leave it alon...