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hi again - and on another topic! Limpets, or at least I fairly sure thats what I have. What info I can find says they are harmless, but could be a nuisance as they can get out of hand easily. I have started sliding them out of the glass whenever I see them I did put them under the microscope when I first found them and they were fascinating but not really great to look at! In reality they are just tiny white specks inside the glass - but could they be an issue? I have a pretty cool video of two of them almost sparring in a petrie dish lol - but not sure if I can/or how to go about uploading videos on here. But then you've probably seen it all before anyway. TIA

Hi - I'm wondering what you peeps think about this black patch in the photo below. The shrimp population seems to have exploded and I would say it is a healthy tank. They are very active and out and about much of the time. I have seen one or two with this kind of thing - very few and far apart, and of the couple of dead shrimp i've had so far, none showed this. I'm pretty sure the other one I noticed like this was also berried. I'm adding 2 photos - on of the issue I'm asking about, and another of the shrimp in general so you can see their conditions etc. And also one more of another berried girl with no darkness. Thanks🙂

All shrimp molts are clear, sometimes called ghosts (I think that is a great description, not to be confused with ghost shrimp though) so you can't really tell by that (even caridina shrimp molts are clear as well) and very high quality Red cherry do look very similar to bloody mary shrimp. People thnk the last lot of shrimp I bought were bloody mary, but they were just very good grade red cherry (bloody mary were out of stock at the time).

That is the first I have heard of Bloody Mary's, but just did some quick research from which I understand they have red pigmented flesh rather than shells. All the molts I see are definitely clear or white in colour - does that support the Bloody Mary theory? Or are CRS molts the same? Thanks for the input 😊

Ok, great advice thankyou!

I would just carry on manually removing them as and when you see them. They will be harmless enough to the shrimp and, like snails, may even help with keeping the tank generally cleaner. Any treatments you could try would almost certainly affect the shrimps negatively anyway. As you indicate, they are interesting in their own way and add another dimension, but you need to just keep on top of them, before they do become a bigger issue though! Great photos.

Hi and thanks for your response. One thing I thought to add afterwards is that she has the same patch both sides of her head - making it seem less "disease like" to me. I think her colour is just the photo at a bad angle perhaps. What do you think of the colour of the the girl in the other pics?

Personally I don't think there is a problem, the black is beneath the shell and in an area that is usually not visible where there are organs etc. This shrimp has very poor quality colouring unless maybe it was supposed to be a 'red rili', but is still interesting, and early berried (the eggs are still yellow, the yolks)!