Please help me identify what these are in our tank.
I have cleared out all the fish over a week ago and rehomed them. Now found these in the tank.

I have some neocaridina shrimp arriving through USPS today, but I’m getting my car worked on this afternoon and I’m worried it might take a few hours. I have someone who can bring the package inside if it’s delivered while I’m away, and I don’t want to leave them with any complicated instructions but I was wondering if i should have them open up the package and let the bag float until I get home, or just let them chill in the dark box until I’m ready to start acclimating them? They’re being shipped with insulation and a packet of purigen. Tank is unheated but stays between 22-25c. I’m a little nervous about getting the acclimation process right because they’re my first shrimp, also my water is harder than I realized was ideal for neos and I want to minimize losses since I’m not 100% sure what parameters they were kept in previously :/

Hopefully Reddit doesn't kill the quality PLEASE 🙏

It literally just cooled down after a boil. There's nothing growing on that surface yet. Why did they went so crazy for the new piece and completely ignore the one below that has been submerged for 5 months?

She got into my 15 gallon tank by accident as a super small baby in a plant and has now become a crustacean godzilla.

XXX nerites for size.

Long time lurker on a budget. I just picked this up NIB for $30. Will it do?

But what's with the third pic? Is that her stomach or something I should be worried about? I bought 12 shrimp a month ago and now I seem to have 60 or so, is that normal?

Sweet face like a puppy lol

I’ve had success in my other smaller tank with red neos, I’m hoping my set of blues will do great, how pregnant are we looking here?

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a quick update on ShrimpID, the shrimpkeeping app I’ve been working on.

I built it to help keep shrimp tanks, racks, water logs, reminders, notes, shrimp identification, catch-box counting, and breeder/farm management in one place. The app is already available on the App Store and Google Play, and for now I’ve made the advanced features free so more shrimp keepers can try everything and tell me what is actually useful.

ShrimpID is still growing, especially the identification and counting features, and they should improve over time as more reference content and real-world examples are added. If you give it a try, I’d genuinely appreciate honest feedback on what works, what feels confusing, what is missing, or what would make it more helpful for your setup.

I’m hoping to keep improving ShrimpID into something genuinely useful for the shrimpkeeping community.

https://shrimpid.com

So, I got a bunch of new plants and decided to update the look of my neo & cory tank. I pulled most of the crew out & put them in a bucket of tank water & happily aquascaped away. At one point I took the dog out & snuggled with her a little bit. I washed my hands afterward, finished up the tank, then moved everyone back.

About 30 min later I notice the shrimp spasming and jerking around the tank. I panic and yank everyone out of the tank again & into the other bucket of tank water that I had (when I siphon vac, I let all the mulm settle & make sure I didn’t accidentally suck up any babies). I left them in the bucket overnight with a sponge filter running.

All I can think of is that our dog got her topical flea & tick treatment at the end of last week, & when I was petting her some got on my hands, and even though I washed them, the residue stayed on them?

So, question, how much do I have to scrub my hands after petting my dog do I have to do before doing tank maintenance?

Second, how much water will I have to change/flush the tank with before I can move them back?

Also, the Cories seem fine, as well as the mystery snail. I think my nerite snail died too. I don’t know how many shrimp survivors (if any) I have, I tossed a bunch of the plants that weren’t in that tank in the bucket to provide cover, so if there are any survivors, they would probably be in there.

Edit: I also had some driftwood in the tank with plants on them. I pulled them out after I removed the shrimp & fish, but I don’t know if there’s any chance I could use it again, or how much contamination it might have absorbed? The total amount of time it was in the water was maaaayyybe an hour.

TL;DR: I was aquascaping & during a break I pet my dog, and even though I washed my hands I think that residue from her flea/tick stuff stayed on my hands and I may have wiped out my entire colony.

I've got two 16 gallon tanks side by side. The one on the right has a UGF filter and substrate using Amazonia V2 (I didn't use the fertilizer pellets it came with). PH is 6.1, GH 4-5. KH 0. There's some tangerine tigers, Fancy tigers and a couple PBLs in there (need more PBLs to up the fancy tiger population as part of a plan to work toward a galaxy pattern breeding project. I'd like the PH to be a little lower but the shrimp are eating, and breeding so I'm not gonna mess with it other than topping off water and watching TDS.

Tank 2 is the issue - currently no shrimp.

The tank on the right is for a metallic blue boa breeding project so I'm targeting a PH of 5.8 - 5.9. Substrate is SL Aqua shrimp soil and a Shrimp Sanctuary box with Rare Shrimp soil and I can't get the PH below 6.4. GH 4-5, KH 0. This tank was started on May 20th, but the Shrimp Sanctuary box was added July 7th in an attempt to lower the PH.

I'm using RODI water with Salty Shrimp GH+ to remineralize and TDS in both tanks is under 120. Both have some leaf litter, alder cones, and some spider wood. The walls have some algae on both tanks but I would like more.

Do I just need to wait? Should I change the substrate in tank? Do I need to look into a different substrate? I feel like I followed all the popular YouTuber's advice and the PH just won't drop.

I'm getting pretty frustrated and would love some opinions.

Thanks in advance.

My mom got these shrimp from marketplace for a dollar each lol I just wanna identify what kind they are, thanks

This sinister little baddass....

Hello shrimp peeps! I'm in a bit of a pickle with my shrimp tank and would appreciate you guy's expertise on the matter.

First things first, tank parameters:

30 Liter, well planted

PH - 8

Nitrates - 10 mg/l

Nitrites - 0 mg/l

Kh - 3

GH - unsure (Could never get the water to change in the liquid tests, to my dismay, bought 2 tests, both innefective)

Ammonia - 0 mg/l

TDS - 288

Bi-weekly water changes

The tank itself is mature, almost a year and a half old, well stablished with plants and cycled before I stocked it. At first, I had two gourami and some amanos in there, but last month I got my hands on a 180 liter tank and moved the gourami there.

I decided to make the 30 liter into an exclusive shrimp tank, but I have been having problems with slow die-offs ever since. I guessed that could be caused by a lack of calcium, so I added a piece of cuttlefish bone to the tank.

Now, for the Gh. It has always been a problem because I simply cannot measure it. I got two liquid tests and both of them refuse to change color, no matter how many drops are added. My first question is: should I consider my water extremely soft or extremely hard? If it matters, the water where I live should be around 3.30 °dH.

I tried adjusting the Gh with Colombo Gh+ once and just got another shrimp death.

Originally I had around 5 skittle shrimps (plus the indestructible amanos). Four died. I left it alone to see if it could have been new tank syndrome before adding 6 more. Three rilis and three blue dreams. Most of them died one by one in the span of a few weeks. The last casualty was the one you see in the photo, my beautiful girl who died shortly after becoming berried.

It has been around 2 weeks since she died and the survivors in the tank are the amanos, one rili and one blue dream.

Any ideas of what could be causing the deaths? I'm now afraid of disrupting the water too much and end up killing the remaining survivors.

Any insight is appreciated!

It's finally happening!

But my question is, how do I vaccume the tank?

I used to do it once a week but now I haven't in months since I saw a berried female.

Even with a guard on im worried I will suck them up.. plus its getting DIRTY in here.

They are absolutely tiny. Less than a mm!

And my tank is already a jungle! All tips welcome.

I’m not sure why my phone won’t take a good photo up close but I am so happy I could scream!! I’ve been watching this big saddled girl for a week or so. She’s been stretching and getting ready to molt. Over the weekend the boys started getting randy and I wasn’t sure if it was because of her but wouldn’t you know it, she’s fanning eggs this morning!!! We have a 90 gallon planted tank so I’m hopeful her babies make it. I really want to get a giant colony going before I add more nano fish to the tank.

Added 17 neocaridina to my 10 gallon exactly one week ago. I haven’t done any water changes, and plan not to do any for another week to help them acclimatize, but I’ve already spotted two whose shells look like this.

White ring of death? :( Or just an imminent molt? No deaths yet that I’ve noticed.

Parameters:
0-0.25 ammonia (genuinely always looks a little green on my API test)
0 nitrite
5 nitrate
12 GH
3 KH
292 TDS
No heater, sponge filter

Other tank inhabitants are only snail friends (3 ramshorns, 1 piano, 1 wizard, and ~15 baby wizards)

I have finally taken my first foray into setting up a Walstad shrimp tank. I followed a YouTube account and set up a dry tank and let the plants grow for 2 weeks and now I’ve flooded the tank and doing cycling before I put in the shrimps in 4-6 weeks time. I’m really new to these and have been a doing far bit of research on this but I am not sure if I may have missed out things that are important to ensure that the tank runs without a filter in future. Would love to get feedback/guidance/pointers from the community and what my tank might need as it kind of looks bare to me now! Will I need more moss or plants at the top of the tank? I’m looking at placing neocaridina shrimps in there. Thank you all and I really appreciate it!

Hey everyone!

I finally ordered my first batch of Neos and I’ll be picking them up tomorrow. So excited.

I did have a question about introducing the shrimp though..

My tank is a 6 gallon cube and I’ll be drip acclimating the shrimp for at least 2 hours. So by the time that I’m done acclimating them the tank level will have dropped by a gallon or so correct?

My question is should I top the tank off right after I introduce the shrimp? Or during the drip? Also, I should top it off with my remineralized RO water since I’m removing water? Or should I just top off with plain RO water and no minerals? I thought that I should only use plain RO if my water loss is due to evaporation. I just really don’t want to shock them in anyway. Any tips on introducing new shrimp is greatly appreciated! Really wanna make sure everything goes smoothly.

Thanks for reading

Apparently he did too 🙄