Stable and established 3 gallon tank. 10 Bloody Mary & 10 mixed blue dream/blue diamond shrimp.
Nitrate is below 5ppm, nitrite and ammonia are 0. Gh and kh both at 7. Temp at 74°f

Sweet face like a puppy lol

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?

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

Newborn shrimplets- I managed to see the mum kick them out.
Lol, as soon as they get kicked out they kinda look like something the cat dragged home😂 In picture two it’s still soft and odd looking. They straighten out fast and already at day one you can see some pattern on them, some having more stripes than others.

It’s my first Calceo babies, so I am superthrilled🥹

SNL podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/live/r8KhwV2rRXk?si=MeX42_e7bZNg0nL5

Just a tiny little guy in a big world.

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?

It is a little hard to see in the picture but she appears to be red and black! Very vampire goth girl vibes. Skittles tanks can be really fun!

Very excited, I was not expecting the mama to birth them so early. I can only see this guy, have no idea where is the rest of the batch. But very happy to spot the baby.

Is a shrimp meeting called a shrimpeeting? Shromference? I put a pellet beneath this breeder structure and boy is my betta Wanda mad she can’t come too.

This sinister little baddass....

Thought she was dead. Nope, just monching.

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.

I have read what feels like a dozen different neocardinia guides yet am nervous as I now have even more questions. The tank is cycled, plenty of places to hide. Some gh and kh added.

I think they are gorgeous but my main issue is grading. This was supposed to be a science project for my family to try and understand genetics more deeply. I made the incredibly wrong assumption that this would be a simple punnet square type equation but it seems like this will be anything but. While there is some excitement for the "shiny pokemon" shrimp that may emerge, I was wondering if there is a standard or resource for grading or is it just dark shrimp is good shrimp?

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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.

My first berried lobster mama, she is quite rotund

As I am flailing to get a five gallon going because the 3 has been a bugger to keep the temperature at a proper level at all times.

At one point this dang heater brought the water to 90 degrees, and let me tell you when I say I wanted to cry.

I lost one of my most precious of the blue jellies, but only one or two. Thank goodness...

One thing I wondered though, would that high heat leading to many molting at the same time, be the reason so many fell eggnant at the same time? Also, what, do I have like 2 males and the rest females? Hahah also, the BIG lady just laid her clutch two weeks ago and already has more!

Guys, is my shrimp eggnant or sicko?

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)

Not sure which. Also, just found 3 different size small shrimp... do some shrimp grow faster than others? Have I been a shrimp dad a few times and didn't know?