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Thanks for the advice. Started with 6 in a 10 gallon tank. When you drip in for the h2o change what is your approx rate of drip. I will be using ro water. Crabby, New to the shrimp world. I may have become a little impatient but seeded it on day 1 with bacteria.

Let the tank cycle for 18 days and got the water parameters to where I wanted them. Added some new residents 5 days ago. Already had 2 molt!

Crabby, Its all good. That second tank discussion is already happening!

Yeah I wasn't bagging you for it or anything, many people make the same mistake. Just wanted to let you know, in the case that you get hooked and set another tank up in the future. I personally don't keep track of drops per second, but I want it to take about an hour or two for my nano tanks. So maybe 45-60 minutes for every gallon of water changed. No idea how to convert that to drips though, that's up to you, or anyone who does measure that. By the way, I just looked at your shrimp photo again and those are some beautiful shrimp! What I can see of the tank looks great!

Those are lovely shrimps! Tehm being in different water probably brought the molts on, it also happens more when you change water. When you do change water make sure you drip the new water in slowly. As crabby says, there may not be a lot of biofilm, I see you have Indian almond leaf in the tank, though I assume from the picture you didn't get too many shrimp in a small tank. If you can get some 'bacter AE' that will help with increasing the biofilm, which even if not needed at this point, will probably help when they have shrimplets so worth tracking some down if you can. Smon

Oh that’s much better. Just keep in mind with shrimp you don’t cycle purely for the nitrogen cycle, but to increase algae, biofilm and microlife for the shrimp to eat. Generally speaking, shrimp keepers tend to cycle 2 months to account for this.