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So ... I visited my LFS after it reopened from lockdown due to a particular reason we all know about. Initial intention was to go in there to pick up some frozen foods, as I had used it all up since lockdown. And maybe a Mystery snail to help eat up algae in one of my tanks. But then I saw this fella and could not resist buying the pair. (cropped the picture to hide the mess in my quarantine tank) Have not been able to take a picture of the female. It's hiding and won't come out when I'm around. However I am concern it's a not really a female but a sleeper male. ? Hope I'm wrong.

He sure is. Maybe why I couldn't resist buy them. And I've always liked the Agassizii fin shape. The female is still hiding. I have added some Neon Tetras as dither fish. Let' see if that will give the female more confidence.

I have only ever put Amano and RCS shrimp in my tank, but this thing looks kind of like a dragonfly nymph with a wide head and a weird tri-split tail

You're welcome. I have never heard it described as "like a shark in the tank", but that is so apt. Dragonfly and damselfly nymphs are nasty creatures. Good luck with catching it.

Wow! Just looked it up. Apparently its like having a shark in my shrimp tank. Hope I can catch it. I guess it must have hitched a ride on some plants I bought. Thanks so much for letting me know what it was!!

That is a Damselfly nymph. Get rid of it.

He’s a cutie! Gotta love apistos. Hopefully the ‘female’ really is a female, looking forward to seeing a photo.

Thank you so much. This is my first shrimp tank. They are amazing.

Glass shrimp has a more pronounced hump on this back. Glass shrimp has larger eggs, Amano have thousands of smaller eggs. The spotted stripes on that shrimp's side gives it away as an Amano. Glass shrimp do not have those spotted/dotted lines. That's how you tell them apart.

Hello. You've probably traveled by now. The only thing I did when I move was I bought a 5-gallon cooler and place my fish there for over 3 hours of land travel and they were all okay.

I can only speak to the short moves i have done...which I think would apply to anything up to a day's travel. I just drained the tanks down to about 20% of capacity....more if needed to lower the weight so I could carry them....then just unhook...move...hook back up at destination and that's about it. I mean it all depends on specifics....so long as them temps are allowed to stay in what a human would typically be comfortable at....good to go. Good luck! Oh...and just try and minimize agitation of the tank and water as much as possible when carrying.