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@Lennie Okay! I will be patient and try to gauge their interest in a couple of weeks.

@JettsPapa Thanks! I am going to put one or two in my tank today. I hope the shrimp love them.

That looks really cool! I may do that with another tank one day when I have room. 🙂 I have always wanted a tank like that.

What do Tannins do for the water??

@Lennie @Guppysnail I won't need to remove the decayed parts? I can just leave them in there until gone then add another one? Thank you for your advice! I have some hydrogen peroxide I can spray them with.

Hey, fellow aquarist friends! My 29 Gallon Shrimp tank is stabilizing finally. I wanted to add some Catappa leaves I have 10 large ones. What is the best way to use these? I have them soaking right now (for about 5 hours now).

Day 2 of no Shrimp deaths! The Bamboo shrimp was out all night helping eat the food in their dish. This morning it was gone. I got to propagate my plants today and replant the trimmings I can’t wait to have a forest in the left corner. My Java Ferns are growing but I’m not sure how to propagate them so research must be done. The water is so clear today I can see everything and was able to do some turkey baster clean up. I just have to add a cup of water back into the tank and it should be good to go. I’m so excited I’m hoping my shrimp will get pregnant soon. After all the deaths I only have blue and red now. I know if they mix they will turn brown ish eventually and I’m okay with this for now. Because I love shrimp for being Shrimp the colors are just a bonus to me. I do have plants to eventually set up a 2nd tank but right now it will have to wait. The attached photo is from today.

Thanks @Guppysnail he’s been all over the tank today!

I’ve had my shrimp in this big tank for almost a week. Today is the first morning I woke up with no deaths and I found molts that looked healthy. Yesterday I changed the food I was feeding and added 2 new ACO filters. The water is looking better and my shrimp seem to be happier. My Mystery snail was very active and today he’s just been resting. My shrimp absolutely love the Xtreme shrimpee pellets they even threw some bladder snails off the pellets. I have seen 3 baby blue shrimps and saw tiny molt float by this morning when I was doing my checks.

@nabokovfan87 I just went looking through my tank and I have hundreds of bladder snails! And a lot of egg sacks! How do I get rid of them or some of them? 🤔 Update 6-1-2023: lost 3 more shrimp overnight the water parameters are going back up to where they were. Did a small water change today. Got the new filters in and changed the food I was feeding. The shrimp are devouring the Xtreme Shrimp pellets I got from ACO whereas they barely touched the omega one pellets. Turns out I was feeding the snails since the shrimp didn't care for that food. I have had the new filters in with the old filter for about 2 hours and I fed them the new food this morning I have seen much better activity. The 3 I lost last night I could see were directly connected to Ring of Death or they were only half out of their molts. I am going to keep an eye on the tank for a while and hopefully manage it and not need to do any more drastic changes.

Okay, so I have about 30 or fewer Neocardinia shrimp in the tank now. I have 1 mystery snail and some bladder snails. I have 3 kinds of stem plants and Java ferns. I have 2 Mobani driftwood pieces that the java is tied to, one challa wood, and one cluster of alder cones. I got in the new shrimp food from Aquarium Co-op so I added 1 of the nano blocks and I have had the wondershell in there the whole time. I have two pieces of "dragon" stone. (quotation marks because Idk what that is just what I was told my stone is from the Fish Store guy), I have 40 lbs of the sand substrate. I use a shrimp feeding dish so I clean up the leftovers every morning with my turkey baster. I feed Omega One Shrimp and lobster pellets and I use Bacter AE 2x a week. I did have 3-5 babies haven't seen them in a while figured they are hiding or possibly didn't make it. I got new shrimp food from Aquarium Co-op but I wasn't sure if I should mix up what I feed them like GirlTalksFish does or not. I have no fish in it. The only filter is the old sponge filter from their old tank and the aerator. The temp stays right around 77 from the heater. Cory says in some of his videos to add Crushed Coral have you found that helps? MY tap water naturally keeps KH around 80. GH is naturally 150 and PH is naturally 7.2 what should I do next? I ordered the GH and KH test kit, and I am not sure if I should just buy the API master test kit or get the ammonia test from the aquarium co-op as well. And 1 Bamboo shrimp

@nabokovfan87 I lost 2 shrimp overnight and one of them went from yellow to having like a dark spot on its head. I tested my water this morning and my KH has dropped to 0, my GH went up to over 150, and my ph dropped from 7.2 to 6.4 I haven't done any water changes, since I have been trying to let my shrimp not freak out. My 2 new filters should be in today or tomorrow so I can add them to the tank along with the old one for a few weeks. I have been cleaning their food out every day and feeding them once a day. I had been adding 3 pumps of easy green a day this week since I had just gotten it in for the plants. so the Nitrates are at 50, and the Nitrites are at 1. I have a wonder shell in there would that have caused this?

No, I am not. It was a few weeks ago I watched a video on Aquarium Co-op and I could have misunderstood him. I have no personal experience with it.

Thank you for this post! I was about to post this same question about my blue snail and his snail is starting to go back to the lighter blue so I was like oh no did I break him?! He seems healthy very active and eating well. It is nice to know he is just growing like he is supposed to! 🙂

Do they seem to have the white ring of death? I am not an expert by any means, however, I have seen that amano shrimp can sometimes kill and eat neo shrimp. I have no experience with this so I am unsure if that is true. When you added the shrimp how did you acclimate them? Hopefully, you can get it all healthy soon!

@TeeJay I am thinking the same thing. I am starting with 2 stacked on the right corner and 1 small on the left corner and then see how that goes. @nabokovfan87 I will let you know. This whole thing makes me want to start a Shrimp Tank journal lol

@nabokovfan87 Yeah this pump is very strong. I wasn't expecting it since the last one wasn't this strong, to begin with. I moved the air stone up towards the top of the surface so it moves the surface not the whole tank. They seem to be enjoying that much more. When I get paid next I guess I will have to invest in the liquid test kit. It will help me be more accurate for sure. @Lennie I do not have an ammonia test kit. My tap water comes out with no Nitrates or Nitrites, so I have had a harder time getting the Nitrates up at all with the easy-green and I don't want to overdose so I have been using those 3 pumps a day as it says to and I use BacterAE once or twice a week. The tank has been set up for 10 months. Yeah I didn't know the sponge filters came in different sizes I had just gotten the top seller off Amazon. When I learned about bigger sponge sizes I went for it.

Yeah, I didn't know about the colors until after I got them... I got one of those assorted colors batches. I have been testing my water it is 0 nitrates, 0 nitrites, 80 KH, 150-300 GH, and around 7.0PH according to the Aquarium co-op test strips. I used the bio-clear packets that came with the sand like the local fish store guy said to do but it is still cloudy. I am unsure what else to do to clear it up.

Hey everyone! I recently transported my shrimp over to my 29-gallon planted tank. I had their old filter in there and an aerator. But the red root floaters were being blown all over the tank and at first, the shrimp were fine but this morning they seem like they are wayyyy active and have been holding onto the red root floaters. I removed the aerator keeping the filter and the water is still well oxygenated some of the shrimp went to the bottom of the tank and started scavaging and some of the others stays on the floaters. I have 1 casualty. I googled this for hours this morning and I can't find anything on current or flow for any kind of shrimp. I have less than 40 Neocaridina Davidi I am trying to start a nice size colony. I ordered 2 bigger sponge filters from Aquarium Co-Op. Any suggestions? I don't want them to be super stressed out. Thanks for all the help! The picture below is of my 29-gallon with just the sponge filter from their old tank and all their plants and lighting and rocks and wood and Carib Sea for the substrate.

That was helpful thanks! They swim like snakes almost identically so I will let them be for a while i guess. lol

@Mary W. @Biotope Biologist so I just saw one swimming freely across the tank does this mean it’s a leech? My bladder snail eggs are still on the leaves, and my shrimp are all still healthy and a couple are pregnant. Do I just let everything live it’s life for a while? Where did they come from?

@Mary W. they don’t inch and they seem to only be able to move on the glass itself.

I turned on my light to my shrimp and snail tank and found this funky red worm in their food dish. When looking around my tank I found clear/white worms on the inside of the glass. Is this bad? Are they gonna eat my shrimp?

Thanks, @xXInkedPhoenixX and @Patrick_G! I have had no more deaths and no more molts since last night. I am hoping it was the stress. I will go look up the Wondershell instructions!

Thanks for the response! I just put a new wondershell in the tank today as the other one had finished dissolving. The shrimp haven’t been in my tank for 24 hours and only one of them had the ring of death over night. I acclimated them slowly over 3 hours yesterday before I caught them and put them in the tank. All of my other shrimp are doing great they’re active and eating and having so much fun in my tank. I got my new aquarium co-op test strips in today and the ph is around 7.0 the GH is over 150 but under 300, the KH is 40, no chlorine and no dechlorinator, 25 nitrates, and 1 nitrite. I am glad to be here and been loving the community so far!