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Let us know how the Storm product goes with cycling your tank.

Possibly, but chances are low, unless the species of shrimp you have has striped legs as a common trait. What sort of shrimp are you referring to? And do they normally have striped legs? They shrimp will always want to revert to it's natural form and colour. So keep this in mind when you breed shrimp, and you want to keep certain traits. If you let a shrimp that does not normally have striped legs breed with a shrimp that has striped legs, it's offspring will more than likely favour the natural form.

So it is possible if you have different parents? Okay, nice to thing to consider. As for the multitank syndrome uhh... I live in a small tiny tiny tiny apartment and unfortunately already kinda have it? Because I have no room to set up tanks, I just keep collecting free old 30gal tanks and stacking them up... (Did end up passing up a free 90 gal....I cried that day) . Anyway, It's kinda a life saver I have no room to setup actual tanks, hoping the syndrome will pass. Till then looking forward to my on growing moss and plants. I do have 2 glass jars with tiny setups though, but no shrimps in either. (Minus scubs breeding in one)

Hi all, I have a tank of blue dreams that I’ve had for a few weeks. I have a couple adults that have a worm attached to their head. I can’t tell if it is Scutariella or a leech of some kind. It looks too large for Scutariella. I have had these small worms in the tank for a few weeks but they don’t appear to be planeria (see attached photo). I have Panacur c and Para cleanse available as treatments. I have shrimplets and snails so I’m concerned about them. Any help is appreciated! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hey everyone thabks for your help. After the tank has been running for a month I decided to grab some local red fire cherry shrimp and see how they do. After a week they are looking and doing great and I must have the calcium good I found 3 molts alrdy. Should I take them out or just leave them in the tank? Also found some baby shrimp alrdy. The owner of the fish store let's me catch my own fish so I grabbed 5 buried females and 4 others hoping a for male or 2. So far so good. Also setup another 20gal im doing yellow fin white clouds and golden back shrimp once the tank has been running for a bit

just as the title suggests. I just got my first batch of babies in my shrimp only tank. I have sand substrate. Normally I just stir up the bottom a bit with a finger and suck up a bit of the goo with my hose, but now I'm afraid I might get a bambino. I've got a fluval flex 9 for a tank, and I have a bit of filter floss in the outlets to try and prevent shrimpets from escaping the tank into the filter area. Any suggestions?

I never vacuum vac any tanks with shrimps only, shrimps don't really need it in the way fish do as fish are very much messier! Anything that stops tiny shrimplets from getting sucked up will also stock the muck getting sucked up? If you want to continue with the vacuum then do it into a white container and leave it to settle so you can see after that whether there are any shrimps? I would probably stop vacuuming and maybe get a snail or 2 instead, that will add another interest point to the tank? Simon

I hope it works out for you and look forward to hearing how you get on? Simon

I'll be honest - I don't do gravel vacs in any tanks with fry. Whether it's my apistogramma fry who literally swim into the tube, or my ender babies who are just everywhere, or invisible shrimplets. I just stick the hose into a corner and wave my fingers in front of it to keep everyone away. I don't seem to be any worse off for it. And it doesn't really look that bad either. I just can't think of a way to safely do a gravel vac with shrimplets. I've tried putting fine mesh in front of the hose, but the fry or shrimplets get sucked into the mesh and it can injure them, and really stress them out. Interested to hear if there are any good suggestions though. Good question!

This is professional quality & beautiful thus far!! I would buy it!! I'm sure by the time you're finished it will be a magazine. ? Please continue!! ?

Yes! I was able to find a retailer here in the US who sells it. Sorry I didn't include it!! I was researching galaxy breeders when I came across Vin in Taiwan. He has 15+ years of experience and a ton of high level awards from shows for his offspring. Link to product line sold at BuyPetShrimp.com: https://buypetshrimp.com/complete-vin-line-to-cycle-and-maintain-your-shrimp-tank/ Link to Mr. Vin's website: https://www.vinshrimp.com/ I know it can be ehhh buying products from a tutorial because the tutorial was made by someone who stands to financially gain from the purchase, but there are also veteran hobbyists out there in every facet of keeping domesticated animals with kickass products they created bc they couldn't find anything good enough to fill the gap. $100 sounds fairly reasonable and not too big of a risk to me.

Did you check out the Disease and Diagnosis thread? A salt bath should help remove those parasites.

Are you able to purchase those products? Got a link?

Absolutely!! Thank you so much for the tip. We actually have a RO system, just haven't set it up yet. But with this RO bottled water being so costly it's definitely getting set up asap. I also have been researching like crazy, and found the Vin system for setting up tanks for crystals. It's a whole nitrification system that takes about $100 for the full product line and 2 months to cycle. It's super intricate and I have pages and pages of notes from the tutorial, but I think it's by far the best way to go. He keeps the galaxies using this method so I know it's tried & true. He uses a 15 gallon for this video, which I think I'm going to upgrade to just to save myself from dilution calculations. Although I noticed his breeder tanks are 10 gallon. Most people recommend 15-30 gallons for the ease of controlling the water quality. That's reason enough. I saw one video a while ago on YouTube from a US breeder I think using this system, wish I could remember the name. I remember thinking this is ridiculously unnecessary, but I wasn't thinking about taking on any caridina back then. ? Here is the video tutorial on the Vin method:

Thanks for your experiments with Zerowater, Simon! It appears to be working for me also. My tank completed its cycle shortly after my previous messages so I bought some GH+ and Fulvic liquid and I gradually reduced the TDS to about 145ppm with Zerowater. I managed to buy 5 juvenile blue bolts and by Christmas I had a couple of berried females. Yesterday I saw about 3 babies so things are going well so far, thanks again! ?

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Discussion around the logemanni poster can be made in this thread: OK, so for the next 3 posters, these are the ones with actual photos from cull to high grade and drawn image for championship. Focus is on colours rather than pattern as with previous chart. Caridina logemanni Shrimp Crystal Red Crystal Black Snow White Golden Bee Caridina mariae Shrimp Orange Eyed Blue Tiger Tangerine Tigers Red Tigers Others? Taiwan Bee Shrimp Blue Bolts Ruby Red Red Wine King Kong Panda Shadow Panda Hulk What have we missed?

"Cull" shouldn't be confused with low quality. Cull really should be removed from the breeding cycle due to defects. And as such should not be sold or even given away. Giving away a cull specimen to someone who thinks it's a treasure will mean that the defect is bred and allowed to propagate. It has the potential of ruining many generations of line breeding shrimp in this country. Low quality on the other hand, doesn't exhibit defects. It's just not as bright or colourful or whatever. It doesn't pose any danger in the gene pool by introducing defects. Breeders can sell low quality shrimp at a reduced price or even give them away without any risk. Assuming the seller labels them appropriately as low quality and prices them accordingly, and the buyer is aware of it.

Comments on this chart? We fill the blanks with photos of the actual graded shrimp.

Work has started on the poster, any comments appreciated. The article that the poster will be attached to will include real photos of the various graded shrimp as well.

The shrimp must appear perfect and under magnification show no imperfections or blemishes. The perfect example with full body coverage of colour and pattern for the given variant.

I like the idea of the 'perfect' shrimp level too, even if I'd never achieve it. I would classify it as anything better than 'High' :) I'd be happy to take some pics of the shrimp in my tanks to help illustrate the levels, but as I've discovered this evening taking pictures of specific shrimp is HARD! They move too fast dammit. I've got a few previous photos online, have a look and if any of them would be useful let me know and I'll dig out the originals: https://www.flickr.com/photos/10013620@N05/sets/72157656753508963

Cmon Shrimpmaster, you can do it !

That's true but we need to start somewhere and by having this documented, we can then work on replacing subjectivity with consistency.