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You can still turn it around with the 7 shrimp as long as you have male and female (likely with 7 shrimp) and everything is right for them in the tank. 1 batch can be up to 30 so you don't need many batches? Hopefully the one with the eggs mates with a male and you could be on your way! Simon

Yeah that’s right down to 7.☹️ Hopefully one of the two that I’m sure are producing eggs will replace the losses. Provided there’s no more problems. I have four or five hydra in the corner of the tank I noticed yesterday so instead of wiping them up I thought I’d leave them so I could get visual knowledge of what happens. Thanks I’m really interested myself weather it’s the colour or as you said the rubber. I’ll let you know the results ?

I hope the planaria zero works out, you should just see them slowly disappear as the days go by, as you have so few you probably won't see much happen other than the numbers decrease and hopefully vanish completely! That is intriguing about the blue rubber ring n the base of the jug and look forward to hearing more on that experiment! It may be the material (rubber) that attracts them rather than the colour, but will be interesting to see what happens? Sorry you lost the red shrimp, but it does solve the problem of having mixed colours/genes at least! Hope you donn't lose any more, I guess you are down to 7? Simon

Also do you know/think if shrimp are able to tell colour reason I ask is if I put a jug or something in the tank yes they will take a swim around ect but they have never stayed well I have a little jug with a blue rubber rim on the bottom after two minutes of sitting it in the tank three shrimp swam to it and just stayed holding it they aren’t feeding they are just resting and every little while they will go about the tank eating and then return to the blue rim. So I think I’ll try a little experiment with some different colour options and see what results I get to what colour they prefer.

Hey guys been a few days just thought I’d check in say hi and to let you know that I lost another shrimp the red one absolutely no indication of anything then yesterday morning it was not moving. On a happier note the zero planaria I had ordered arrived yesterday so I have added the recommended amount and now just waiting I can see a couple of hydra on a corner of the tank what should happen. ie die and fall off the glass or just die and then start to vanish/disappear. My ammonia test was 0 ppm yesterday so I’m going to check again just now