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Could have been something in the water you poured in with the new shrimp that the amano's didn't like, half a litre of slightly iffy water in a 10 litre is a significant percentage to upset things. Cherry shrimp I believe have a 1 to 2 year life span and as with fish, sometimes the shock of...

Hi, Sorry I've been massively busy with work and going away and guess you've already been & gone. Shrimp wise, I'm yet to find a place with a good selection locally. In Devizes we have Old Forge Tropicals that normally had what they label as "Algae Shrimp" - not 100% sure what species as some...

I've got 4 in my tank and a number of RCS of various sizes and haven't seen any problems so far (been in there a month or so). I'm finding the sparkling gourami are really interesting fish, quite small and largely keep themselves to themselves but completely different to anything else I've got...

I'd not necessarily take the water report at face value, it's not going to be redone regularly and isn't reflective of what's out of your tap. It's possible there's a seepage of industrial fertiliser or something between the reservoir and your house. @Lemsip: That report has a range of...

Yes, get your local water supplier to check that out! Legal limit is 50 out of the tap.

Tropic Re-Mineral (both the regular and discus versions) contains everything you need to re-mineralise RO water including getting the KH level to a specific amount. I believe (and somebody will correct me if I'm talking tripe) that pH buffer just increase the KH of the water. If I were doing...

Really annoys me when shops keep fish in poor conditions. There was one pet shop in south wales that did (although the last time I went in there they clearly had been reported as they no longer had tropicals). I need to check my bank balance but might treat myself to some CRS's or RCS this...

Red cherry and crystal reds should be fine in the same GH, red cherry are very resilient little things and quite happy at a range of water qualities. If you've not done already, check out the post Mitchell posted. The water hardness (BOTH GH and KH) are only part of the puzzle, the TDS level...

If you can tell me if you're planning on putting other shrimp into the tank in future I'll tell you how I'd go about it. You need to get the correct GH and KH and this varies depending upon what stock you want now and in the future.

Are you intending to put in different shrimp in time? If so as mentioned red cherries are one of the least fussy! If you're going to put in others what are you thinking of?

Wish I could find a lfs near me that does! There's one that has a tiny tank of A's for £18.99 for two and that's it. In fact the only easily available shrimps are Amano, Bamboo and Mountain :s

Call me a heathen but I really like grade A & S, I think they have a more pleasing balance of white & red on them - but that's just me :D

I've got RCS and Amano in my smaller tank. New tank is 6.4pH & 4dKh (a touch under) so should be pretty ideal for CRS's - if I can find them at a decent price (£19 for two is the best I've found locally)

Just to say this is brilliant! I'm a huge shrimp fan and trying to find local suppliers to start the population in my newly setup 190... Other half wants CRS's and I'm looking for something that'll show up on the cat litter substrate.

I've been doing similar research but the other way round - looking for fish that work OK with shrimp for my new tank ;) Dwarf Gourami's apparently hassle and eat fully grown dwarf shrimp so make sure you have plenty of cover for any you get. If you've not looked at it, check out Planet Inverts...

I'm hoping to try breeding Amano's at some point as I now have a female who fairly regularly berries. Just need to find some cash to buy the marine salt to set up the growing "tank" :) I've various articles bookmarked at home if you're looking to do the same

Would be interested to know where you found some too, really want some when the new tank is up and running!

What gravel have you found out of curiosity? I'm after some and AE is currently out of the Unipac stuff I've used before.

I rescaped my little 37 litre tank a few months back, the biggest problem I found was locating all of my fish & shrimp... However it wasn't too horrific to get it running although I don't have anything quite as sensitive as CRS (just red cherries and amanos). I went from regular aquarium...

After a bit of a advice. My current tank is a small 37 litre tank which has some valis corkscrew, amazon sword, indian fern and a bit of java moss on my bogwood (tiny). Not particularly heavily loaded with plants. Fish wish I've some neon tetra's white cloud mountain minow, guppies, dwarf...

Does that mean that you're using tap water straight from the tap? If so then this is most likely the issue as the chlorine/chloramine will be killing off the bacteria in the tank, which means that your tank is actually uncycled. All shrimp are quite fragile and won't be happy with high ammonia...

I've discovered there is a big difference between them not eating and not seeing them eat! The time to worry is when you only ever see them sat there stone still. If they're sat there and their arms are "scrabbling" then they're actually munching down on algae and there's nothing to worry...

Thanks for the replies - bizzarely I didn't look on that page on Plant Inverts (did check the species page). Just sounds like it's down to inexperience then! I have seen all 4 RCS's over the weekend and none of them are berried so know she's not hiding.

Hi All, Got a strange question. I currently have 4 Red Cherries in my tank. Two I 'aquired' as babies when I bought my neon tetra and have both grown to quite healthy female adults. The other two (much more red) my better half bought. They've not grown anywhere near as large as the original...

One thing I've read is that all leaves release tannin's when you add them to water, so a lot of people seem to boil them to release the tannin's before adding them to the tank :) pete.