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Welcome Anja. Nice tank. Don't forget to cover up the filter inlet with a prefilter sponge or floss before you put shrimps in there. Good on ya for researching before jumping to getting shrimp. As with a fish tank, the most important start is to understand the Nitrogen cycle and make sure you cycle your new tank properly before adding any shrimp or fish. Just letting a tank run for 1 month, doesn't mean it is cycled. ?

Wow, thank you. I’ve received great info here. So much reading to do, the diseases section is a little frightening, didn’t I here neocaridina were supposed to be “easy”. I will take a picture of white nose shrimp if he emerges. Found what I hope is a molt, and not a death, this morning. If someone can please confirm. Here is a picture of the tiny shrimp.

The cherry shrimp are a good place to start and the easiest to keep. All shrimp are a bit more difficult to keep than fish. Full marks for doing your research in advance and hopefully that way we can guide you through the process successfully? If you have the usual test kits, PH, GH, KH, TDS can you test your tap water so we can see whether you can use that or not? Simon

Thank you! It's so nice to see an active forum these days. I have one empty small tank, will measure it later, I'm not sure how big it is. I'm thinking red cherry (it's the only species I can buy here, and based on my recent research, it should be good species to start with). I'll start a new topic here when I measure that tank, because I have so many questions about setup and everything needed for shrimps to thrive.

Hi guys Suppose that I got 2 Red Cherry Shrimp, the best ones. I put them separately and they will have babies, and those babies will have more babies...and so on, until the colony reach 100 shrimps. I wonder how the new shrimp would be, Are they smaller? Weaker? Or less color? Or still the same?

If breeders cull their shrimp, they will sell them as high grade shrimp, and charge more for it. But you still have to cull if you start off with good quality starting shrimp. You'll generally get a mix - some higher, and some lower grade shrimp, no matter what the parents are. Obviously with higher grade parents, the offspring will be much more likely to have high grade colouration. The reason we cull is to increase the quality of the genetics, so a bad quality one doesn't breed with a high quality and bring down the general quality. Does that answer your question?

I was going to use tap water, as I already use it with my other tank. Unfortunately, I don't have RO system, but perhaps I could use some distilled water to bring down KH? I'll check the internet for TDS and GH test.

That KH is a bit high, were you hoping to use tap water, or do you use RO water with the other tanks? Might you be able to get test kits through the post? I also put sponges in an established tank to start some bacteria on them. The gravel is a good idea as well with cherry shrimps! Simon

Phew

Thats definitely a molt, and a great photo of one at that! A dead shrimps flesh usually goes pink (as when cooked) when it dies Simon

Thank you! That's a good point, I would never think of that. So, that's a must, even if I don't have a strong filter? Filter I plan to use in this new tank is Atman HF-0100 (water flow is 150l/h and it has a valve, so it can be reduced). I do understand the Nytrogen cycle and it's importance, so couple months ago (when the idea of keeping shrimps came to my head) I added that filter to my main tank. I thought, since I already have a healthy running tank, why wouldn't I cycle new filter material in it, before I set up the new one. (I hope you understand what I mean, English is not my native language). And I'm thinking to use some of the water from my tank (and maybe even some of the gravel) when I set up the new one, to speed things a bit, if that's okay for the shrimps That's what I was hoping for, thank you I have pH and KH test by JBL (unfortunately I can't buy any tests here, and with COVID situation, I can't travel to get them somewhere else either). So here's the parameters of my tap water: pH=7,5 and carbonate hardness is °dKH=6. I hope that information is helpful.

To an extent this is how many peoples colonies evolve! In order to keep good colour etc you will need to keep culling inferior colour shrimps, preferably before they can reach breeding age/size! It is a never ending process and if you don't do it from the start it soon gets out of hand and the majority end up wild/brown colour, mine have done this. I think this answers the question, but let me know if not or you want further advice? Simon

Welcome to the forum! What size of shrimp aquarium are you planning? The most important thing is what kind of shrimp you plan on keeping, neocaridina (cherry) are simpler than the Caridina, both have different water requirements so that will be your starting point? Simon

Hi everyone! My name is Anja, and I live in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I'm not new in fishkeeping, although I've never had shrimps. I want to set up a tank for them in March, so I've signed up here to lean about their needs before that. Right now, I have a 40l tank with Gymnocorymbus Ternetzi, and one 250l tank that is unfortunately still empty (don't have enough money right now for equipment, but I plan to make it a Southamerican biotope with Pterophyllum Scalare once I collect enough money for that). Here's the picture of my 40l tank :) edit - picture is taken before I put fish in it, so that's why they can't be seen