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That is a lot, they seem to boom and bust from what I have seen, I think they must compete with the baby shrimp for food but I don’t think they do any real harm. They seem to like cucumber so a slice will soon get covered in them, the shrimp jump off when its removed from the water but the...

I used to keep these Malaya shrimp, I never had much success with breeding them. The Sri Lankan dwarf shrimp are colourless but interesting little shrimp, they were easy to breed. The other pic is one of shrimp I have now they are ‘Australian Amano shrimp or Caridina typhus, they have the same...

Ramshorn snail I like them in a tank, wont harm the plants

They would eat dwarf shrimp when they are adults, even amano shrimp might not be safe.

Sorry I wasn't clear, I know they are not mosquitoes, but they end up in buckets that have been dry, I fill them with mucky water to attract the mosquitoes. That's why I expect that they are eggs of flying insects. I thought that they might be drone fly eggs but I can't find an image of the...

Eggs form outer space, :) I expect they may be eggs of a flying insect, I find those eggs in containers that I use for growing mosquitos, there are no snails in the buckets and the gel is a softer jelly than snail eggs.

I wouldn’t know what to suggest, a moult should take seconds, they usually take a minute or so from start to finish, dwarf shrimp and large amanos do it this way, large fan shrimp can take up to two minutes. To moult properly the old shell should be separated from the body before the actual...

Once the daphnia are in a pond they can survive drying out by laying resting eggs that have a protective shell like brine shrimp or annual killifish. They can colonise new ponds in times of flooding and it is thought likely that the resting eggs can be transported on the feet and legs of...

Re: CBS tds in low tech??? You can use ‘stability’ as opposed to a shrimp specific GH booster. It is what a lot of people used before all the shrimp specific additives were available. I use an African cichlid conditioner to get the tds to about 120 it just adds GH and lasts for ages. In...

I have kept them for years and the biggest I have seen had a shell a little over an inch long.

Malaysian trumpet snails are generally considered useful as they burrow and turn over the soil. They don’t eat live plants and eat leftover food. Ramshorns don’t eat live plants and do a bit of cleaning up so if you like them you could add them too. I don’t know what worms would survive with...

It may not be anything to worry about, sometimes some of the eggs don’t hatch and are left stuck to the shell and got rid of with the moult, if the shrimp does not moult soon after the eggs have hatched she will remove them herself. I have seen once or twice a shrimp moult with a full lot of...

You may have spotted them just after they were born, they tend to stay where they landed for a few hours they need to have one or two molts before they can start feeding then they spread out and it is very hard to see them so if the water is good they should be fine.

The plants look lovely and lush. As already said there were lots of reports some years ago of a species that look the same as amano that do breed in freshwater, it’s surprising that they have not been marketed as a separate species, I for one would buy them. They may breed like Sri Lankan dwarf...

This time of year I would not use any heat packs, amanos are fine with cooler temperatures.

The body shape is very cherry shrimp like, a cool looking shrimp whatever it is.

The shrimp in the pic is an amano, but the seller says they are green shrimp and as they have 200 I would check first, not many people are breeding amano.

Yes sounds like nematodes, they don’t do any harm, yes fish would control them but not get rid of them, you would have to treat the tank to be rid of them, don’t know how they get into tanks but they do. If the other worm is flat then it is likely to be planaria, a google image search should...

Lovely shrimp they are the yellow colour form of cherry shrimp so treat them the same and they will breed lots. Of course better not to keep them with red or orange cherry shrimp if you want to keep the colour.

Sounds like something is poisoning them, I would change half of the water. I don't think it is the ferts. If you have put the adults in brackish water then that is the problem. The adults are freshwater, it is only the larvae that can live in brackish water. Peter

I am pretty certain they are nematodes, about the width of a thread, they move like blood worm and only come above the substrate at night. They are totally harmless, nothing at all to worry about. They cannot cause you any harm at all. When your fish move in they will have a nice treat. I have...

They hold fertile eggs for up to a month, depends on the temperature how fast the eggs mature. As they are only holding them for a couple of days the eggs must not be fertile. Maybe you do not have males, they are much smaller with slimmer bodies and as you said less colour. The other critters...

It can be used on its own but it won't raise KH so some tap would do that, i.e. if the bottled water does not have enough KH

The consensus seems to be that crs like a little KH 1 or 2 and a GH of about 6, I use Hagen African Cichlid Conditioner to get enough GH, it will not raise the pH. You would need to do some testing to get the amounts right. The bottled water is likely not to have enough minerals in it on its...

The Amazonia 2 can be a real pain lots of people including me have had milky water and filter pads full of the broken soil. For a tank that small you could do bottled drinking water most of it has an almost neutral ph, a 5 litre supermarket own brand doesn't cost much, you could mix it with some...