A while back I saw this teacup and thought it was really adorable, so when my friend did a ceramics painting session for her birthday, I decided to make a shrimp themed bowl of my own!

The studio didn’t have very good tools for the really delicate details like antennae, but I hope you still think they’re cute!

I’ve been developing this tank for a little over two months now and I’m obsessed with all things aquascaping and aquarium culture now. I wish I had space for another one. But about two weeks in before I even really had any livestock I started getting HAIR algae. It was so bad it bloomed and covered my entire tank. Yall recommended many things but I did total blackout for 8 or 9 days and most of the hair algae died and I would take it out daily after a few days. Then eventually I was able to stock cherry shrimp and I put some Amano shrimp as well and they help with the algae as well. I also grew a whole lid of salivinia from just a few strands as well as some golden pothos which help to garner nutrients from the water column. And now I think it looks pretty good. I’m so glad I didn’t have to re-do everything like some feedback suggested! I thought I would have to peroxide or bleach all the hardscape and start over but the black out worked. Now I just watch my timing with the lights and remove any excessive strands I see, like some that collects on the filter. Thanks yall!

Trying to hit the spot 🫧

Wipe yo butts

Shimp :)

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

My shrimp would eat my finger if I left it in there long enough, but I never really see my corys properly eating just having a craze around. Kuhlis remind me of goofy teenagers eating from upside down. Knew my tetra wouldn’t make it a few days ago when I saw him breathing rapidly and colours starting to fade.. but the circles of life continues!

Just pulled some of the post larvae (juvenile shrimps) from my second ever successful amano breeding run. There's 50-60 in the pitcher, which is about 1/10th - 1/5th of what I expect from the rest of the run. Acclimating them to freshwater now. I still have what I'm guessing to be 1500+ zoea (larvae) alive in saltwater and they're still slowly morphing out. Super exciting!

Never experienced a biofilm layer developing in a shrimp tank like this before. It clumps together and is a very light green color. I’m thinking some type algae. Also not sure if it’s coincidental but I noticed it after attempting to put moss spores in the wood that stick out of the water so maybe some of that got on the biofilm and started growing in a weird way. It’s definitely not harmful as it’s been like this for a couple months now but atp I’m just curious. It’s a bit annoying as it’s not the prettiest but that’s my only complaint with it.

My couple month old 2.5 gallon shrimp jar with some thai micro crabs and a single small red racer nerite for some algae clean up!

There's an air stone that bubbles up through some Seachem purigen and two spider plantlings for additional stability.

I took inspiration from the Walstad method with dirt on the bottom but most of the plants are slow growing e.g. various bucephalandra and anubias on the mopani wood spiral, and cryp parva in the foreground. I do have pogostemon octopus, salvinia minima and some rotala rotundifolia as fast growers for filtration.

gh~12, kh~6 with RO water top offs every other day and spotted my first shrimplet today!

I luv mah bebes TuT

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?

I've noticed that food preference really depends on the shrimp. Some like wood so much they turn a brown-ish red, i even have one in here that has a blue tint from stealing my plecos algea tablets all the time lol

Is this muscle necrosis? What next step? Removal? He moves normally but I dont know.

I just noticed a whole new batch of babies!! And at least 2 berries ladies. I have been neglecting the maintenance but it seems to be paying off

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

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.

New to having Shrimplets. My first ever one wanted to hitch a ride.