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Today I noticed my berried shrimp had no eggs. ITs been maybe 2 or 3 weeks. I read an article that hatched shrimp egg casings will float and I see some circular things floating at the top but that could be wrong. I dont see any shrimplets. Will shrimps egg casings float? should i be worried that...

Hey, sorry this is actually a terrarium question. in my paludarium I recently added some isopods, a snail, and some new moss, nothing big. Came back to check on them today and saw this worm. I believe it to be a land planaria. Are they dangerous? will they go into the water at all?

I am 99 percent sure that they are copepods. Do we need to find out what species they are? also, Im happy to do it with a bigger tank if necessary. Thanks

I looked them up, and they dont look super similar. the ones in my tank have a long skinny tail which it doesnt look like the scuds have. Also, it said scuds were generally 5 to 20 milimeters in length, which seem a lot bigger than mine. Mine are way smaller than that. They are probably between...

probably nothing bigger than 5 gallons. I am not sure what kind of copepods they are, they hitched along on the plants or something else. They mainly stay on the substrate but sometimes they will swim up for a bit. They have fairly long antenae and their tail isn't split, which from my research...

Trying to see if I could have a small tank with just 1 or 2 small fish that could live off of a self sustaining copepod population, so basically no maintenance. Would this be a viable option, and if so, what fish would be the best options? also, the copepods i have spend a lot more time on the...

dont have exact parameters right now but nitrites and ammonia 0, a little bit of nitrates, 300-350 gh, 80-120 gh, and ph 7.5-8 I have 4 neocaridinas. 2 of them recently got berried. Today I found one of them dead. It still has its eggs. It has a bit of lost color around its abdomen around its...

I am wondering if it is possible to start a copepod culture that is self sustaining. I was thinking maybe there could be two separate tanks with one above the other. The bottom one would have copepods or daphnia or some phytoplankton eater like that and the top one would be where all the...

hopefull these are better the first was very blurry. It might be hard to find as I only got one worm in the sucker thing but look around in the tube and you will see a squiggly white line

its the little white strand

one sec ill figure out a way to get a picture. I haven't added anything new in the past while. It is a planted tank. The pants came from petsmart. They were the ones that are kept in the gel stuff at the bottom so they werent in water, but maybe the worms could still survive on them. As of right...

I was vacuuming my sand today and say some white thread looking things floating around. They were kind of wiggling around, but I thought it was just from the swishes of water i was making by lifting the vacuum thingy up. However when the water stopped moving it kept wiggling and then when it...

Recently I tried to start a fish tank but was new to the hobby and all the neon tetras and some of the shrimp died from ammonia. You can find all the information for that in my thread titled new neon tetra breathing fast. I had to cycle the tank. For the past four days there has been around 0...

I am using API pond water dechorinator and heavy metal neutralizer. There are currently 1 tetra and 5 shrimp left and ammonia levels have been consistently under 0.25 ppm for 2 or 3 days.

thanks i think I understand now.