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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?

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...

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...

have a tank that is about 16 to 17 gallons, although the back half is blocked as it is a paludarium and will have a false bottom, so no animals are living back there. I have 10 shrimp in there although abt half of them are juvenile. They wont eat anything that I put in. I have only tried algae...

Just tried to post this and it didnt work so i will try again. In a brand new tank, about 5 days old, I have 8 neon tetras and 10 neocaridina shrimp. last night when I went to check on the before bed, the tetras were all breathing very fast, some were breathing at the very top of the tank, and...