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its 6 legs. It seems to be an outside insect that somehow managed to get in my tank?

There is no set time frame. It depends on your water chemistry. Aquarium Cycling

Found this thing in my tank today. Its a 15g planted tank with cherry shrimp and badis badis. Been set up for over a year and i havent added plants in over a month. It was just clinging to a leaf. Any ideas what it is, and how it got into my tank?

Simple!? ahh

obviously anything that would eat scuds would also eat small baby shrimp, but is there something i could house which would eat the scuds and leave the larger shrimp alone?

10 gallon shrimp tank with a recent find of scuds in the water ( see here) I really dont like/want them in the tank. Alot of people seem to enjoy them, or at least are indifferent to them but i hate them and want them gone. i have been diligently removing the ones i can see, but i know theyre...

oh thats it! thanks for quick response. So, i dont like these scuds in my tank and want them gone, how can i go about doing this? can i feed them to my cichlid tank?

** look to the bottom right corner where the gravel line begins, blown up 2X above. Tank is 10 gallon, planted w/ only cherry and amano shrimp. These do not look the same as similar sized baby shrimp, they seem to want to burry int he gravel, are always on the moss ball, and swim wildly. Have a...

??? if my light levels are within 6000-7000K its all good to go?

what is a colour rating. the 15 w says Aqua-glo and the other i cant see any writing,. What should i dofor the hairgrass?

How much light should my tank be receiving daily for solid plant growth and limited algae growth. It is a 10 gallon tank with anubias, hygrophila kompact, hairgrass, javafern, vals, and a moss ball. The tank has no fish, just amano and cherry shrimp. The tank is young, just a few weeks old...

Yes i do want to get some pics going. I got a DSLR not too long ago and am itching to play around with tank pics.

Well ive been sucked back into the world of fish keeping which i never wanted to leave. After keeping fish for most of my life and building my way up to 5 well established tanks i had to bail on the fish as i went to school out of town and couldnt care for them with all the transport. Well after...

i havent seen them show any interest in the plecos AT ALL, but they did hammer 2 guppys i had int he tank, ate them whole