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I understand, I was like that when I saw my first baby.

Here are some photos of the moment, sorry for all the typo errors in the previous reply, was too emotional. I could really celebrate. You know, its one thing to have so many shrimp dying and one other life changing thing to witness eggs that you saved, actually hatch! **dancing around** Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

Thats a wrap for tonight! Had 4 hatched! Relaeased 2 out of the hatchery, the other 2 just did not want to peave so i stuff some moss in there so they can at least hang on to something. This is very encouraging to me, seeing that they hatch. Was so sad that mummy died and honestly, i didnt think i could pull this whole thing off, i really did not think someone as brainless as me could see live babies hatch from these eggs. I was just tearing up abit. **emotional** Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

I admit I would put the air con on, all for the easiest solution, plus you ALL benefit people/dogs/tanks etc. The only down side would be higher electricity bills but if you aren't worried then leaving air con on seems the easiest and most rewarding for all route. Otherwise you have to run 3 chillers for the 3 tanks? If you're not worried about the increased electricity of running the air con, that is the route I would go definitely. Simon

A cooler fits between a canister filter and the return tube to the tank, the cooler has a in and out to connect the canister tube. If they are already free swimming, and you don't have fish in the tank, you can remove it from the hatchery, my babies are with the rest of the shrimps and it's mother. I never give it food, it should be able to find food.

Wow! You must have good eyesight to see a baby like that, the only time I see babies is when they are on the side of the tank (as they are usually clear) and using a magnifying glass. Fingers crossed it survives. That's quite a setup you have rigged up for the hatchery, I hope it pays off. The easiest way to keep the tanks cool (as long as they aren't in direct light) will be to run the air con permanently as I had a quick look and even at night your forecast is 26+, we are lucky if we get that a few days a year during the daytime, hence we don't have air con generally over here. It is much easier than buying some coolers/chillers and setting them up (I don't know how you do that) but probably more expensive long term! At least with the air con on you can just pretty much not even bother to check the temperature, apart from occasionally. Good to hear that the tetras are recovering. I watched a 4 part youtube of 'marks aquatics' on how to breed neon tetras - I think I will stick to just buying them as they are really cheap over here anyway. Hope you get their tank sorted ready to start cycling today. Simon

My yellow shrimp gave birth to one red shrimp, one blue shrimp and many yellows, about 20 in total.

Yes!! One egg hatched Saw the tiny fella whilst transferring all the eggs in the diy hatchery! We will see what happens. Ya, im not too pleased with the fact i dont have any algae for them. My co2 setup is a semi high tech one, it comes prepared for you with the yeast mixture. You just gotta mix it and top up the yeast when it runs out. So it is not a serious one with a regulated solenoid and metal cylinder. In fact it ran out quite awhile ago and i just left it. Been too busy with acclimating of the yellow shrimps into their new tanks, the heat wave that killed my crystals(have my ac turned on 24hrs a day now) and the death of the yellow mummy. Also currently now, the construction of the hatchery. Who could forget last night's live biology practical of removing the eggs! It is surely an eventful start of 2019 for me. Well, i must get back now to scaping the tank for the tetras. They have recovered from their ailments with the paraguard and are much happier in the hospital tank which will go as soon as i can finish and cycle their new tank! Phew! I will keep asking myself why did i choose to go into this hobby again. Below is the picture of the hatchery i made The bottom throws the eggs gently mimicking the mother's fanning behaviour. Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

Thanks for that, I wondered why people use it, now I know! I must have (unkowingly) chosen plants that don't need it by default. Simon

Co2 is to increase the growth rate of plants, and many hard to grow plants rely on Co2, although many plants can do well without Co2, Co2 can increase the growth rate as well as coloration and plants do look nice, many multicolor plants need Co2. From my understanding, Co2 does not affect shrimp, but generate more oxygen in the water which is needed for shrimps.

I think the eggs start yellow and go greyer ans they develop so when the shrimp hatch they are all clear and colour up in a few days, that is what I have seen anyway so if that is true your eggs are early stage. I believe the yellow is the yoke and as that gets used up they are less yellow! I have done my taiwan bee tank so had a quick google search for shrimp and co2 and came across these which you may want to look at. I typed in co2 on this website but it didn't come up with anything but I may trawl through the sections later and see if I can find something, I'm sure there must be something on this forum somewhere? https://www.plantedtank.net/forums/88-shrimp-other-invertebrates/1176489-cherry-shrimp-co2.html https://www.plantedtank.net/forums/88-shrimp-other-invertebrates/154864-co2-cherry-red-shrimp-careful.html https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/cherry-shrimp-and-co2.26217/ http://www.shrimpspot.com/topic/370-shrimp-and-co2/ Having read through these and others I would say there is obviously a risk to using CO2, though obviously many do. Whether it is worth it is down to you to decide? My tanks are densely planted and I don't use CO2 at all and everything I have tried grows 'like weeds'! Anyway, hope this helps and after my lunch I will look on this forum again to see if there is anything here on CO2. I would reiterate though that I don't use it but your loses and circumstances are similar to mine so I can't say the CO2 is causing you any problem, just an added risk? Right, lunch now! Simon

Oh my Lord!! Great news! One shrimp just hatched!!! I was just doing a diy hatchery and had wanted to transfer all the eggs into the newly made hatchery, saw one tiny fella swimming around!! ***happy!!!!*** Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

I've read on the net, try getting some almond leaves, they release all the necessary nutrition in water helps keep shrimps alive and increase breeding, they only negative is the water gets tanned. May be you should try it.

Sorry to hear about your loss and would be great if you manage to get the eggs to hatch but that isn't anything I know about, but worth a try though with 13 shrimps you will get more babies once everything has 'properly settled' (assuming you have a mix of males/females). You are pretty much in line with my (also novice) experience that first week is the most risky and if I bought ten would probably lose 2 then and another 1 (50% of the 1st week) the 2nd week and then it should be plain sailing as long as you keep the water parameters nice and steady. What have you done with the tetras in the meantime? The only thing I am not too sure about is the CO2 aspect? I will try and do some reading/searching on that a bit later as I don't know whether that affects shrimps in any way? I have to do my weekly shrimp tank maintenance first, but then I will have a look around to see what I can find on this and let you know if I find anything worth noting! If you had it in the tank for the grass and that all died maybe you don't need it? Sorry again to hear you lost the mummy shrimp but in my limited experience you are pretty much inline with what happens to me as above. There may be people out there that get 100% new shrimp survival rates IN NEWLY SET UP TANKS but they are probably either much much more experienced, or just plain lucky? Keep going, worst first week over! She may have just had too much going on with trying to adapt to the new tank/water etc and carrying babies may have just been too much to do all at the same time. Good luck with the eggs! Simon