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Muffin is my Atya gabonensis (vampire shrimp) as cute and peaceful as she is, She is boss but she swears like a little trooper. When I say she swears it's usually clicking and chasing off a smaller less dominant shrimp that has blunders into her tunnel or tries to impress her. She doesn't...

My tank has really recovered from it's hard prune and added a new floating plant Phyllanthus Fluitans which is great as the leaves are small roundish and tinted red with feathery roots that hang down a inch or so but not as tiny or rapid spreading as duckweed. Goldfish are a no-no with cherries...

Loads of different food (my occupants have up to 6 different high quality foods provided so all bellies are full but not too much over feeding). It sometimes happens the culprit was removed for a few days and all is well the other assassins don't bother. Assassins will on rare occasions go for...

Hi Cebalrai, Nice to hear from you. it is possible they might cannibalise their own species. Most species tend not to but sometimes it can happen. The options you have is to feed them so that means trail and error with certain sinking wafers designed for bottom dwelling catfish with a high...

I had a bit of a snail graveyard of shells thanks to my two assasins, However when I was tidying the tank up a bit to my delight I found the cutest surprise, see if you can spot my new assassin sqwee...

Duckweed can be a pain as if the water perms are to it's liking it will rapidly take over the surface of your aquarium and clog up your intake. There are surface plants that are a lot slower at multiplying. Shrimp do love to explore mine have shinned up and down my Tiger lotus and wandered on...

Don't trust is with any smaller species of shrimp it will hunt them down. In the right conditions these things breed like roaches.

I've pruned mine and the skull has been taken out so I may add a new image shortly but here it was pre-prune.

I give a mix of different foods including spirilina, Hikari first bites and trying a specialist powder food meant for baby shrimp which they love and a green water mature tank is important and vamps like a little den unlike bamboos who will sit in the open, fine substrate as they will sift even...