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@unofficialzoo generally just the skin is left. It does have some nutritional value. Snow flake in itself may not be nutritious but it's the bacteria that ends up on it that makes it a good food. I generally leave a large piece of snowflake in the tank and leave it's until gone. The shrimp do eat the snowflake as well . Their all time favourite food for my shrimp has always been mulberry leaves. The plants are easily propagated- just stick a thin branch in some soil and keep it moist- the shrimp get the leaves and I eat the mulberries!! The leaves can be blanched and fed - again i leave the leaf in until there are only veins left - even the babies can be seen munching out on the leaves as they soften. You can also dry them- i use a clean pillow case and hang the leaves on the clothes line in the pillow case to allow airflow until they are dry- no mould build up this way- then the leaves can be fed without blanching. i also pulverise the leaves to add to my dry baby food mix.

Update, The tank is doing well, I did a water change tonight. Mama CRS is still holding, I’m surprised she hasn’t dropped yet. It’s been about a month, I would have thought she would have let them go by now. Thoughts? Tank: Temp: 78-79f PH:5.7-5.8 KH:0-1 GH: 6-7 TDS: 159 The pH still seems low, but oh well. I have been manually removing hair algae, which is mostly in the moss at this point. The moss is growing well, so I’ve just been snagging giant chunks to get more algae out. Starting to wonder if silicates are leaching from the sand? I know salt tanks go through a phase because of this?

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

Hello I have Golden Tigers myself, love the color and behaviour of these shrimps. Sometimes they are sold as Caridina cf. Cantonensis and somtimes as Caridina Serrata. After seaching on the web , I found this on a German website (translated) "The tangerine tiger or golden tiger shrimp from southern China is still relatively new in the hobby. Again and again she is referred to as Caridina serrata, but it has been found after investigations that she belongs to the species Caridina cantonensis. The body color of Tangerine Tiger is yellow to golden orange ...etc." My question: what's true now ? Martin

There won't be any problems breeding the CRS and CBS, you will only get red or black crystals but they may carry either/both genes, but you aren't worried about that you said before? Simon

Wow, that's a huge water change, I wouldn't do more than 10% per week myself now the shrimp are in there, I only do 20% in the tanks with fish as well as shrimp? Shrimps don't produce much bioload so don't need much water to be changed! The soil will reduce the KH and PH from my experience (your original post was PH5.8 so that is about the same) but as a real guess changing so much water may have caused the problem if some shrimp have died, did you drip in the 50% new water. CO2 is very risky though so unless it is REALLY a must I would leave that off, same for fertilizers? The soil will eventually lose its ability to buffer the PH but that may be a long way off yet, especially using RO water it will take longer as that has a low PH to start with! If you did such a large water change to try and get the parameters better then you shouldn't do that once you have the shrimps in the tank as cherry shrimps will adjust well to different parameters, even outside their ideal parameters but by mixing 2 waters with different parameters would be too much for them. Only do about 10% each week and slowly add the water. The shrimps will do better with stable water parameters outside their normal range than quickly changing parameters every time you do a water change! Cherry shrimp are usually fairly easy and adaptable so hopefully you haven't lost any/many? Simon

They have some pretty dominant yellow stripes, but you’re right, they can be hard to see. How will breeding causes issues?

Welcome to the forum. Nice looking shrimp you have.

Nice planted aquarium.

I do catch a glimpse of the eggs when she does as you described, or if I can get a light on the other side of her, I can see shadows of eggs through her. Currently, 7-9 CRS left. 5 Jades. I just really hope I get a handful to bolster the population. I would feel much better. I would like to get 12-ish Crystal blacks to throw in too, as I don’t much care about purity, and think I’d like to have both types in the tank.

Thanks! Its hard to get a decent view of the berries female most times. But she definitely still holds the eggs. Is it possible for an entire batch to fail to hatch? Either way, I can’t tell the color really well.

@ineke good to see you drop into SKF

Going with a rack, sold a few items to make room, still got to sell some odds and ends to make more room... gives me time to plan the build!

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!

Further problems unfortunately. Did a 50% water change on Sunday and turned my CO2 back on today, had it on really low. Tested my PH and it's dropped down to 5.7, KH is 0, GH is 6. Not sure what's gone on, I did my normal water change, RO water with Salty Shrimp GH/KH+, I did top it off with a little straight RO, but I would say that it was less the 5% of the water change. I've turned off my CO2 to see if my PH rises, but why has my PH dropped so low and where has my KH gone? Is this something to do with my tropica soil?