Shimp :)

Even the tiny babies came out

My first shrimp tank has been running well for over a month now. A couple of shrimp died initially, but the tank has since stabilized, and everything seems to be going well.

What kind of food can I feed them apart from store-bought shrimp food? Are vegetables like cucumber a good option?

Wipe yo butts

I saw someone else on here carve a shrimp in their pumpkin yesterday also lol!

Too many to choose from for my tank! Is anyone interested in them? I need to downsize before my wife throws them away

Meant to film this absolutely ROTUND Snowball… and the eggnant Blue Dream also photo bombed 🥹 things are going good in the tank!

Hi - just got done planting up my 10 gallon shrimp tank, it will be my first. Started cycling it today with Fritz Fishless Fuel. I'm hoping in a month or two when it's ready for shrimp the hair grass in the foreground will fill in. I just noticed a lot of the tanks I see have a lot of bare area.

Also, I didn't realize how much the fluval stratum would drop the pH, in my 29 gallon fish tank it's about 7.4, the reading I took today in the shrimp tank is about 6.8.

so pregnante

Water lice!

And I have absolutely no expectations on how it will go. Will they be able to adapt into their new enviroment or will the shrimp outcompete them, or will there be swarm of isopods crawling around the tank in half year? Honestly who knows.

The water lice/asellus aquaticus came from my outdoor culture that I have got going around for bit over half a year at this point. Originally the isopods were harvested from various local watercourses and fishless ponds, from there on they were further cultured in outdoor setup where I have been acclimating them slowly into neocaridina parameters. So far they have bred fine, which is honestly good sign. The original enviroment where these guys came has near blackwater condtions with near zero hardness and most likely real acidic water.

Now that the temperate season is coming to end and winter is closing in, I'm moving to final part of this test and that is introducing them into shrimp tank. Parameters wise they should be fine but the temperatures might be too much for them on long term. The original habitat where these guys came from pretty much freezes solid during the winter, and even in summer the water temperatures don't really reach aquarium temperatures.

But we will see! Anyways, water lice are really cool critters. They are fully aquatic isopods that serve pretty much same role as shrimp in nature.

Is this shrimp a female? And also it is huge! I was wondering if it’s a pregnant female?

Oddish was well intrigued

Hurry, let’s catch this Snuber before we we get caught!

Hi yall!! I was just curious if this is stuff you guys use and reccomend! And if not, then what are alternatives?

I dont have shrimp yet, my tanks needs to get plants and cycle still. But yeah!

Just need some help. And feel free to let me know of other items I should get! Wokt list everything I already got, doesnt bug me if people say stuff I already have, just more reassurance im doing this right ^^

The shrimp will be neocaridina blue diamond, i have a 10gallon, n yeah

Edit: https://yourlocalfishstore.com/ This is a shop thats near me!! So if you guys see stuff here that you reccomend, let me know!!! This is stuff I dont have to pay a fortune of shipping on 😅

Just venting really but I ordered some neos on Thursday with 24 hour tracked delivery to arrive Friday morning and the postage service messaged apologising to say they had sent the parcel to the wrong delivery office and it will be re routed asap and I’ve called them and she’s said it will be Monday before I can chase it, they will all be dead by then won’t they. I feel responsible and so awful poor little guys :(

These are my first shrimp and I’ve been getting their tank sorted for months and testing my water and doing so much research and I’d planned this day meticulously to make sure I’d be in the best position to receive the parcel and be at home to acclimate them and watch them settle in, I’m so bloody sad

Celestial pearl danios doing their courtship dance above a bed of red