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Can you post pictures? I'd love to see your tank!

Thanks! I'm so happy to have a shrimp tank. These guys are lots of fun to watch, and they seem to be happy! I think I've given up on the assassin snail for now. The snails are so teeny, I just plan on squishing them.

I used Fluval shrimp substrate, because it was good for the babies (rounded, soft pellets that don't get mushy, and it's easy for them to hide in). The package said that it wouldn't change the pH or leach anything. I ran the tank with an old filter, filter squeezings, and borrowed decorations...

Thanks! I've been rescaping a bit so it looks a little different. However, I dropped a few algae wafers in the tank, and while the shrimp gathered for the feast (h/t Eagles) I counted all that I could. At that count, I had 42 shrimp. It was this past weekend. Yesterday, however, I saw about...

Found the baby ghost shrimp!! Its between the pink rock and the plant. Its about a half inch long. Definitely does NOT look like a cherry to me.

Very helpful! Thanks for putting this together!

The shrimp were in my community 20 gallon, and they bred prolifically. So I put them in their own 10 gallon. I cycled it and after three weeks, it was ready. I have java fern and moss, hornwort, some long stem grass plant (I forgot the name) and a large piece of driftwood and a shell and a...

Update: I set up and am running a 10 g red cherry shrimp tank. I've caught about 20 various sized shrimp from my 20 and they are flourishing in the 10. So now I noticed the cories are more active and playful, and the ghost shrimp are out and about more. I had more of them than I thought. At...

oh, yeah, you're right about that. I never thought about cutting the damaged leaves of a plant before I got into aquariums and planted tanks. I totally forgot about pruning. I'll do that tonight.

I use Seachem's root tabs. I probably do need to add another one or two in the substrate. I will try it tonight and see if the new leaves look better. On another (related note), the leaves on the amazon are also starting to look a little "see-though" - one or two looks a little lacy. Is it...

I actually have the moss growing on a large piece of driftwood. Several rocks are in there as well. That's what the big pink thing next to the driftwood. I have root tabs under the amazon, crypts, and the water sprite as well as under the ludwigia. I dose Seachem Excel every other day...

Thanks! I have cryptocoryne, water sprite, bacopa caroliniana, java fern, java moss, Christmas moss, amazon sword, hornwort, ad some reddish leafed plant that I don't remember the name of. I finally got a new bulb, a 10K one, and the plants look so much better. Can bacopa be a carpeting...

Thanks for your help. I didn't know that about parameters and different tanks. I realize they wouldn't be identical but didn't realize they would vary so much. Learn something new everyday, I guess! :) These are freshwater clam shells I think. I put them in and my rock, about 24-36 hours ago...

Thank you so much for your suggestions. I say that they are crazy low because my other tank's parameters are so different yet I'm using the same tap water. I plan on putting red cherry shrimp in my ten gallon, so would my parameters be okay for them? Re: the crushed coral. Would a...

Hi all, I started a 10 g cycling about 3 weeks ago and it seems that it's finally done (I seeded it with filter media from my 20 g). Yesterday, I tested the water, and ammonia was 0, nitrites were 0, and nitrates were 40 (this after I dosed the tank with ammonium the day before so as to see how...