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I haven't fed my shrimp cucumber for a very long time . Do you think they like it?

Thank you for the link... Amazon carries for $24.95. Will come in handy. Eleocharis Acicularis. I will read up on the hair grass more, hopefully it won't become a "one plant wonder" or else I'll remove it to another tank with higher light. I have a neat little Pawfly LED on the tank that has dimmer mode capibilty with RGB. I find if I keep light too high the Java moss suffers. I don't have any experience running c02 especially in a shrimp tank. There is a Fluval system that could be considered because it is a small tank. Probably not very cost effective though! https://tropica.com/en/plants/plantdetails/Eleocharisacicularis'Mini'(132BTC)/4571 https://www.amazon.ca/Fluval-Mini-Pressurized-20g-CO2-Kit/dp/B0049RL3H4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=fluval+co2+kit&qid=1572205301&sr=8-1

@sdlTBfanUK Thank you...some new RCS added, they are still hiding, tank is established over 6 months old. @Crabclaw I've been holding off on dosing any ferts as I just went through the white ring of death, not sure if it was the water changes or the latter. Previously doing up to 30% change and have decreased to 10% weekly. Some at SKF suggest drip adding new water? I keep Flourish Tabs and Thrive S and have wondered if the tabs are ok for shrimp? No co2 only low tech tanks.

Might have made a lil mistake. Amano and cheery shrimp went into the tank fine yesterday after about 3 hours of acclimitising. Come down this morning and the tank as just a whirlwind of activity, so decided to try out the new shrimp food I gave them. I should REALLY have read the instructions 1st, I've put in about 4 times the recommended amount of food! After the initial feeding frenzy (wish I recorded it), everything has gone quiet. Everyone is just chilling down the bottom of the tank. Tried to remove as much food as I could with my tweezers, but think I'll do my water change tonight when I get back, rather then wait till Tuesday and see if I can hoover up the remaining food. Edit - On a side note, those amano are giants compared to the cherry shrimp! Also looks like I had a successful molt, yesterday morning, before the extra shrimp arrived, I noticed what looked to be the left overs off a shrimp and since they were all accounted for, I'm assuming there was a molt in the night.

Wow your tank looks great! Is that dwarf hairgrass at the front? If so, are you dosing ferts, using C02 or using a planted tank substrate? (Or none)

I am new here as well, just wanted to share 1 of my three planted tanks. Has been set up for almost a year now. [emoji16] Sent from my SM-G965U using Shrimp Keepers Forum mobile app

Do they eat the skin of the cucumber as well? And is cucumber very nutritious, or just an occasional food like snowflake food? Awesome colonies though!

Get more tanks! ?That's what I do. Really though, if you drop temperature it should stop or at least slow breeding, somewhere between 68-70F. Or if you stop feeding the tank, eventually they will consume all available foods in the tank and there simply won't be any new biomass for the colony to consume. Colonies generally reach an equilibrium point when this happens, either because a) females stop producing eggs due to lack of available food, or b) the babies don't survive because adult shrimp outcompete them for the available food; adults eat the babies and the circle of life continues.

You said you didn't want to kill any shrimp... not sure if you meant you personally don't want to kill them, or if you meant you don't want any shrimp to die in your tanks at all. You should be able to naturally control population one of these ways, but two of them involve shrimp deaths, not by your hand but as part of the circle of life: restrict feeding, making the tank inhospitable for baby shrimp (they simply won't have anything to eat and won't survive) another possible outcome of restricting feeding is actually that the females won't berry at all due to food not being prevalent enough, or maybe not getting enough protein (no deaths) add some guppies, tetras, or other small fish to eat small shrimplets, controlling population for you Can also try to make a male-only tank as suggested above, but might not be feasible depending on your situation and where you're getting your shrimp. I'm personally okay with natural selection and predation in my tanks if I keep fish and shrimp together, but not everyone is. With the above methods there may occasionally be some babies that survive, but not enough to overtake your tank (if they start getting out of control add more fish/restrict feeding more).

Thank you from across the pond ? Trish