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Just a little update to my possible green cherry shrimp thread. Here is the girl I paired up with him(she has a green appearance although not as green as him)& she is nicely berried. Pic for reference. I hope they will have some green babies. Sent from my Elephone P8000 using Shrimp Keepers Forum mobile app

I don't know if we are allowed to link to another website on here but there is a website with a guy that may be able to help you a bit more with identification perhaps http://lifeinfreshwater.net/freshwater-bryozoans/ Admin if we're not allowed to link SORRY :( my bad

So being very very new to shrimp keeping .... so new it's been three months - REALLY NEW but very addicted! Thought I would pop a few pictures up of some of my gang .... yes I said some .... haven't managed to capture all the different colour variations I have on camera as yet. I sear they wait until I am miles away from the ability to take a picture before sitting in full view in the right light. Grab a camera and the dudes seem to just vanish or you can see a bit of tail or partial bit of body showing between plants ...... I have zero idea as to who belongs to which exact species and you have more chance of winning the lottery than getting me to pronounce let alone decide on their latin species name. They are purely for enjoyment (hopefully theirs as well as mine) a way of trying to occupy my brain cell and calm me down in to a more relaxed state of mind. So unlike most people who are obviously a heck of a lot more into them and into breeding etc I will just blunder along calling them the chocolate ones or the blue ones or the weird strip / clear ones .... Apart from my amano, the crystals and my cherry's I have zero idea what the rest are. One has even gained a name ..... Mr Whiskers.... Yes you read that right ..... and now is the time to walk away hmmm probably more like run away from this post! I currently don't have a nice picture of Mr Whisker (was that a sigh of relief I just heard???) nor a decent one of the crystals or amano, nor my powder blue coloured ones they are running around hiding with their eggs hmmmm also missing a piccie of the electric blue and black that I have..... you will be relieved to read lol. Be warned I may add them at a later date though. Anyways here are a few of my little buddies, if anybody knows what they are please feel free to sing out. If any of them don't look right please also sing out I would rather know than not and rather change my ways and help them than loose them and have them suffer in any way which is my biggest fear.

Hello my name is DizzyBlue and I have a snail issue ..... There it's out in the open I have confessed! Ok this is probably NOT the correct folder to pop up a post regarding snails generally doing my head in. I have it would seem two species of snails in my shrimp tank and getting rid of the little blighters is proving to be a full range nightmare. Bladder and rams horn snails. They must have come in on plants. Apologies to those who like snails and keep them as pets. I have purchased a snail trap .... so far no snail wants to go into it. They have obviously heard what it's for and decided its not the des-res they wished for. I debated getting another snail to get rid of the pest snails oh yes I debated the assassin. But having been freaked out by watching somebody's YouTube video of an assassin grabbing a cherry shrimp and just about having a nervous breakdown watching the poor cherry struggling for a very long time to get away and seeing the damage she sustained ..... well that was the end of that thought process. The thought of watching my tank to relax and seeing that happening instead would probably just about finish me off. Don't want to put fish in there that may think my shrimp buddies are lunch either. Not in to fish, although I have some neon tetra in the tank and they have decided to breed which is going to be a nightmare waiting to happen in the future should their young survive. They have been good around the shrimp young and have rarely seen any baby shrimp end up as lunch thank goodness. The tetra were a very bad judgement purchase on my behalf but it's not their fault so they have stayed. At the moment I use a small net and an artists paint brush (new unused and scrubbed within an inch of its life) to sweep the little beggars up and in to the net and then pop them into a jam jar with tank water in it just to double check I don't inadvertently sweep up a baby shrimp. I have also used a meat baster to suck up the little blighters and it's great for removing snail eggs. So tips on snail gathering / removal would be appreciated. Is there a little kind of L shaped sieve or riddle that can be purchased to gather them up out of the substrate as they "march across"? Perhaps a long handled perspex collector of sorts (so I can see what's in there) sort of like the shape of a tiny household dustpan with mesh at the back to allow the water to drain? ANTHING really! I am becoming obsessed by snail removal and would like to get back to just watching me shrimp buddies. I feel cleansed now I have this off my chest :) Any tips gratefully received and mass apologies to snail fans worldwide.

Need to now go read up on these too. They look fascinating. I am way too impulsive and I would want to grow a tank of them if I could and attach one of those sheets that you can get errr not entirely sure what they call them but they are like a square magnifying glass but in plastic sheet format on the side of the tank - my step-dad he's 80 and has one for map reading. I have borrowed it once or twice to view some of my smaller members of my tank. If you narrow it down or figure out how you came by it please do let me know :)

Look exactly the same but once again one small difference, a completely different growing pattern. Perplexing. Unless mine just haven't developed enough to establish enough of a proper pattern yet. I'll feed with some powdered fry food tonight and see how it ends up growing over the next few days. But it's definitely already grown overnight without me trying to feed them, so hopefully this can speed up the process for a better look. Edit: I think they might actually be in the genus Fredericella as they don't have the U shaped lophophore. and that is the only known genus of freshwater with a circular lophophore.

Oh how beautiful is that little dude!

Cristatella mucedo? they have brown stems look like a likely candidate? I originally debated keeping a coral tank and then thought about clams and ended up with a shrimp tank .... hence looking at so many different things and going oooo errrr hmmm all the time! ? if I had a brain cell I WOULD be dangerous! ?

I've seen a lot of other pictures online and there are a few that are pretty much exact matches par coloration. I don't think it'd be possible to find the EXACT species from what I'm seeing online. There are many. and probably many undocumented ones too. I think it's safe to say that's definitely what it is, but I'll check with my shrimp breeder who's been in the hobby for a very long time (who is also a judge at competitions) to see if he can get a positive ID for me/see if he's encountered it before. I think if anyone here knew what it was they would have already said so. (Unless they hadn't seen the thread of course) So I'll check to put you at ease, but That's definitely it.

Hi sorry for blipping on to your thread but I saw something similar on this forum in another thread the other day. yours remind me of these ones .... could be totally wrong and probably am ..... but look highly similar in shape.

Was showing off my tanks to @kizshrimp today and he found one of my stranger pets growing on the glass of my C. typus grow out tank. A freshwater colonial bryozoan.