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Alright, alright...if you guys can find me a shrimp smilie then I can include it in our smilie repertoire. I'll see if I can find some myself in the meantime....

LMAO!!! YAAAAAAAAY! Thanks Mustafa!

Alright everyone, the search is on for a shrimp smilie

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess what?!?!?!?!??!

You got your "SNOWBALL" shrimp ?

YES I DID!!!! AND! I got an extra! Not a bad deal! I also got a bit of Java moss with them. lol I'll be moving that to my quaratine tank though. I don't want to mix the Christmas moss with it.

Looks like I got about 2 males and the others are females, but one is actually still a shrimplet.

COOL!!! now you can see how cool they look in your tank of green moss. By the way how are you telling the females from males, do yours have saddles?

Yes, the ones that I can see that are female have saddles. The ones that I am sexing as males are thinner in the tail, and they don't have the thick female tail. So hopefully, I'll be having some shrimplets of my own in several weeks.

It looks like I have one saddled female I am hoping to see her carrying eggs any day now!

AnneRiceBowl, how are your shrimp doing?

YAY!!!! And we shall call snowball shrimplets "Snowflakes"!!! LOL

They are doing great! I see them actively picking at everything in the tank. I put in some spirulina flakes about every other day, so there's plenty of things to eat for them. I am taking care not to overfeed them, which I know is easy to do because there are so few of them in the tank.

ALSO! I was cleaning the exterior of the glass today (well, okay less than an hour ago), and I noticed what I think is called "hydra". I think the salt water equivalent are called "aiptasia". Are these harmful to the shrimp?

To baby shrimp, yes. They are hard to get rid of. Best bet is to stop feeding for a while and see if they die off.

Glad to hear about your new arrivals Thank for the update.

I have heard that hydra are a danger to baby shrimp because of thier small size. One of the ways people remove them is manually or with a plastic straw. If you keep up water maintenance, they sometimes disappear from the tank. I would just try to have them gone by the time any eggs hatch.

A Turkey baster worked best for me.
It will suck those little guys off the glass.

John

Thank you for the info! I have aquascaping tweezers that I can pick them off the glass with, and I also have a turkey baster. There are 4 that I can see on the glass, and they will be gone!

So, just a quick update.

All 7 of the snowballs that were sent to me HAVE made it! Their tank looks great! My camera is still being a pain, and I am still trying to get pics off of it.

In the tank is: Eco-Complete, a few stems of Rotala rotundifolia, loads of Java ferns tied on small driftwood, a Tiki head ornament (yes, I know what you are thinking, but it looks Cooooool), a glass thermometer, and an AquaClear 20 fliter that has a sponge from a sponge filter over the intake. I am using tap water aged 1 week with Prime. I am feeding spirulina flakes and shrimp pellets everysooften. There's a simple flourescent light on the tank. 50% weekly water changes to reset trace minerals (elements) in the water.

That's it! Simple! Easy peasy!

Oh, and I got the hydras out of the tank with my aquascaping tweezers and the turkey baster. I haven't seen any since.