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    "Hitchhiker" Shrimp

    Don't know why the pic didn't post...
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    "Hitchhiker" Shrimp

    Hmmmm... well then, THAT'S really curious then... Any ideas what type of shrimp this little buddy might be then? I didn't think to add an object for size perspective, but the substrate is basic Fluval Stratum... this little guy isn't a CM in length, by estimate. I just looked right now, and...
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    "Hitchhiker" Shrimp

    It's been about four weeks since the first appearance.... and I've seen quite a few more since then.. seems I have a bit of a thriving colony on my hands... of brine shrimp, I'm pretty sure of. None of them have gotten more than a centimeter in length, and they are, apparently, thriving, since...
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    Cycling new tank with filters from existing tank

    So I am starting a new tank. I have an existing tank, but it isn't really practical for me to take substrate or used filter media from this tank, as it is much larger than my new tank, and I'm using sponge filters in it. What I did do, however, is I put the two (I always use two sponge filters...
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    Greetings from Balmy Darien Illinois!

    I'm new to the forum, and just getting back into keeping fish. I kept a 10g aquarium through most of the childhood and early teen years... Goldfish, with what I think now were nerite snails. When I went to college a kept a red betta (Sgt. Pepper)but after college, I went many years without...
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    "Hitchhiker" Shrimp

    Okay.. So I've heard of hitchhiker snails... sometimes called pest snails, or pond snails, or bladder snails, that hitchhike home from the LFS on plants and what-not, but I've never heard of hitchhiker shrimp. Long story, short... I have about a 1/2 dozen or so baby shrimp in my newly-started...
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