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I have a 10g with 7 Crystal Red Shrimp and 5 Blue Bolts. The CRS have been thriving for about 4 months now in the tank and even gave birth to some shrimplets. The BBs have also been doing ok, although no shrimplets yet. However, recently (about a week ago) almost overnight I stopped finding...

I'm currently attempting to cycle a shrimp tank (not working at all) and read on multiple occasions that bacteria supplements are almost a requirement. What's the best BB in a bottle to buy? I've heard of multiple kinds working. I already tried Seachem Stability (basically an expensive water...

About two weeks ago, I set up a tank for Crystal Red shrimp, with some plants, moss, and buffering soil. After setting it up, I added a bit of ammonia to get the cycle going. After two weeks, I'm still not getting any nitrite readings. Any thing I can do to help the cycle? My other tank took...

I've been having some bad problems with cherry shrimp randomly dying, and I wanted to know if anyone has experienced this. Only my female cherries die (males doing fine). Amano shrimp also do well. This isn't related to changing parameters because I don't do big water changes and I have a...

I have this chronic issue with all of my shrimps dropping their eggs. After dealing with this for a year now, I decided to buy a cheap egg tumbler from Amazon (highly doubted it would work, but might as well try). Right around that time two shrimps dropped their eggs. I had around 80 eggs to...

I've lately been having trouble with this green algae. It got so bad at one point that I had to do a rescape. It has come back in my new scape with a vengeance :banghead:. This algae is green and hairy. It covers all of my plants (Dwarf Hairgrass, various anubias) with a short, green fuzz...

I bought two Blue Velvet shrimp (among other things) from my lfs this week. When I opened the fish bag, I was surprised to see that one of the "Blue Velvets" was black. Like completely black. The back had a chocolate-colored striped and the same colored legs. Is this a black rose shrimp? I will...

I feed my shrimp a combination of fish flakes, spinach crisps (made at home), and sinking pellets. The problem is every time I try to feed my shrimp, my neon tetras eat the food before the shrimp can. The tetras come and bully the shrimp until they leave. Then they consume whatever I put in. The...

I have a fully cycled 20g tank. Recently, my ammonia readings have shown 0.25 ppm for the tank. However, the nitrites are at 0 ppm and the nitrates are at 10 ppm which is normal for my tank, so I have no idea what's going on. If the readings are true, I'd like to know because the shrimp in the...

I just got some Seiryu stone (or at least I think it's Seiryu) from Petco to put into my tank. As I was learning how to use it, I came across a few articles saying it was very alkalizing. My water is already quite hard (kH and gH are high). Is there anything I can do? I keep neon tetras and...

I need a hood or lid for my fish tank, but I have no idea what to get. I am moving my fish tank to a new location, which is problematic since I have no lids or anything (cats). Does anyone have any recommendations for what to get?

My tank had a bit of evaporation so I drained out some water and did a drip WC with some new water. Everything was fine for ~24 hours, then every day for the past 6 days a FEMALE ADULT cherry shrimp has died of the White Ring of Death. Not a single male or shrimplet has died, even though...

I used to have a colony of 20-25 shrimp, with a male ratio of 1:4. When I received the shrimp, one was berried and closing to hatching her eggs, and those eggs hatched. Ever since that shrimp, I have not successfully been able to breed any shrimp. My shrimp are always saddled, and I do see eggs...

https://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=318336&stc=1&d=1602529498 https://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=318337&stc=1&d=1602529498 Please help! I checked on my fish tank to find one of my shrimp laying on its back twitching. Its not showing...

A few days ago I found a shrimp swimming strangely. Thinking it was trying to molt, I tried to help it out. It died within the hour. I found another dead a few days later. Then, I noticed that some of the shrimp had missing limbs. I didn't really think it was a problem because sometimes it...

The first few months after setting up my tank, I was battling an infestation of brown algae, which completely disappeared after a bit. Then, a few bits of string algae popped up. After that was gone, my tank was pristine for a number of weeks. Then, a huge infestation of this weird green tuft...

I have a 20-gallon tank that's been running amazingly for the past half-year. Recently, I have been spotting these white worms on my glass and on the moss and decor. I only spot them on the glass at night or when the fish tank lights are off. They look like flatworms, but I can't tell if they...

So I just bought 20 RCS from an online supplier and everything was going fine. Today, I noticed a shrimp curled up under an almond leaf and I lifted it up to see if it was ok. It tried to swim away but it just flipped over and started swimming really weirdly. When I looked closer, I saw its...

I have a berried cherry shrimp that I separated from the main tank into a container so that the neon tetras in the tank don't eat the shrimplets. Recently, the shrimplets in the eggs have developed eyes. Is there any way to know when they will hatch?

I've got a pretty big algae problem in my 18.75 gal tank. I think I've got 3 types of algae. Brown algae, string algae, and little green tufts which seem to be the beginnings of brush algae. I've already started to limit the light. Anyone else has any solutions? This is a tank with 27 RCS, 14...

I used to have 6 neon tetras in a 20 long for a few weeks, and I just added 8 more. Now, I need to head out for a weeklong trip. Is there any chance that an ammonia spike will occur while I'm gone? There are some shrimp in the tank and a spike would harm them.

I just bought a piece of driftwood from my lfs and when I search up how to prepare it for an aquarium, I get mixed results. I guess the reason why is because most of those articles are for cleaning driftwood that was collected. What should I do with the driftwood to prepare it for tank use?

Quick question: Do Bloodfin Tetras do well with RCS?

I had 2 shrimp in a tank and they were doing fine for a week. Then, a day ago I noticed one of them was gone. When I was wiping my tank glass, I noticed a shrimp head floating around. The other shrimp is doing completely fine. Does anyone know what to do? I don't want the other shrimp to die a...

So I've been cycling my tank for 2 weeks and a half at least (probably not a long time) and I've been using Seachem stability to hopefully speed along the process. When I add ammonia, it always fully disappears the next day. There's always 0-5 ppm of nitrates in the water, but I'm pretty sure...