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I hope they manage to shed succesfully soon! Must be quite a high-light setup.

Slow reply but just in case anyone is wondering in the future...that's nerite poop! 🙃 It's just stuck to the shell with the snails slime lol, lovely!

Poor thing! As others have said, next time she moults it should get better. It's just a bad moult, it happens occasionally, don't worry :). Just be aware the next moult might be more difficult, so keep an eye on her. If your not already feeding a specialist invertabrate food containing a...

Yes, those are deffo daphnia cysts, not sure which species though sorry! I used to seperate them out from fairy shrimp and triops eggs you can buy mixed toether in dried pond detritus and hatch them in pure water with no minerals (like rain or RO). I'm not sure what would trigger these ones to...

Just wanted to say thanks for this recommendation, and that Vetark Fluke-Solve worked brilliantly for clearing the scutariella from my "wild" Neocaridina that arrived with this parasite! I was super worried about adding artifical chemical treatment to my invert tank, but noticed no issues with...

Your rasboras are deffo in for a treat! Nice to see a big happy Amano shrimp too ☺️.

I've fed frozen daphnia and Amano/cherry shrimp gobble it up fine, the same as any other frozen food. Not particuialry beneficial for shrimp, not bad either. It's a natural food higher in protein than many dedicated shrimp foods, so not ideal as a main diet but the extra protein is maybe good...

Would deffo reccomend oyster shells! I'm sure the cherries would be fine without it, but with those stats, both cherries and tigers would appreciate some extra minerals from the oyster grit anyway, so why not? :) You could even just hide a few shells from the beach in the tank and test the...

Old topic, but thought I would note for future readers - those look like nerite eggs on it's shell to me! If the snails have been kept with nerites at any point in time, like in a dealers tank, that could be where they came from.

Can't really tell without a video, there's no actual breeding shown in the pictures, but the big one is a female and the small one on top is deffo a male (the one behind very much looks like a male too, but without knowing how large they are now I wouldent want to make a more definite judgement...

Just keep a relatively clean aquarium with little organic debris lying around and they won't breed out of control, if you have soft water they wont breed and grow as fast either. Also, with a large population of cherry shrimp, the shrimp will always out compete the snails (and sometimes eat the...

The same happens to my ramshorns if I keep them in any tank/jar that gets direct sunlight. Right now I just have a bumblebee nerite in my goldfish tank with BBA on her shell, doesn't look as stylish lol but I'll try snap a quick pic next time she's out out at the front .

No baits, too lazy for that. Clea helena They reproduce very slowly via sexual reproduction. You can add just one to a small tank to control a population of MTS, if you add a few they will breed (slowly) so would eventually totally wipe out a population of MTS. Depending on the size of tank...

Yes, that M.lanchesteri from Pets@Home will eat all of your ember tetras and many of your cherry shrimp over the next few months if not removed from the tank IMO. The Amano shrimp and any fish bigger than an adult neon be fine, your friends community tank would definitely be a better home for it...

I would recommend any specific crustacean food that contains extra iodine, algae and are lower in protein. I like Hikari Shrimp/Crab Cuisine as they are super cheap on eBay, even Pets@Home's "Shrimp and Snail Pellets" are very good (actually made by New Era, who make very good fish food)...

Lucky to still have one, making me miss my apple snails! :( Being air-breathers, I always found it funny when they extended their siphon to the surface, then sort of "pumped" their head in and out of their shell to take in air :lol:. I may set up a tank for them next month lol...I know where I...

As far as I'm aware, there is no issue with selling apple snails in Europe, they just cant be imported into EU countries. I think it's somewhat of a grey area of legislation, there's loads of listings for apple snails on Ebay anyway!* I haven't seen them in shops in recent years though, so I...

I've only seen these on eBay recently, used to get them for ponds at the LFS but I never kept them at home as they seemed to hate the tropical temperatures of the shop (even the "coldwater" tanks would be about 25*C, the whole shop was tropical lol). I think of them as our native apple snails...

Simply cover one of the tubes or part of a tube? I know people used to use reflectors turned upside down. Some tinfoil and tape should do the trick too. Also...floating plants. Are we actually trying to reduce algae growth here though? If so, maybe rehome that nerite ;).

They will only really eat it from the glass and smooth surfaces like those rocks. The stuff on the bottom of glass looks good for them, though I can't see if there's a lot of it, are the back/sides covered in this too? Do you see the snail that's active in your tank eating? You should be able to...

Nah, your nitrate levels and ferts are fine. I personally don't like using Excel with invertebrates, I've seen shrimp react badly to normal doses in the past and adding a biocide to kill algae doesn't fit with my personal fish keeping ethos. Having said this, I can say with certainty that it...

Another snail ally here. I purposely put snails in all my aquariums as I find them interesting and useful scavengers. Snails cause no harm, if you have a lot of algae or organic waste in your tank, they will multiply by consuming it. So then you will have less algae/rotting waste, but more...

In my experience they will thrive in soft water.

Not sure why you got rid of one, but they are hermaphrodite so if you got rid of it to stop them breeding... ....look forward to more snails soon :woot:.

Up to you. If your tank is healthy with frequent maintenance and not overfeeding the fish, they are great at eating diatoms plus general organic waste and wont multiply much. If you overfeed or let a lot of organic waste accumulate then they can multiply very fast, which isn't a bad thing, but...

"Ghost shrimp" are usually the American species Palaemonetes paludosus. They look like the related British native P.varians but can live in freshwater. I'm not sure what you mean by "somebody needs to get there facts right", but I do agree it would be much better if Kesgrave Tropicals included...

Not an actual shrimp ;). Gammarus spp. are amphipods - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipoda True shrimp are decapods - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapoda Granted the term "shrimp" and "prawn" have different/loose definitions depending on where you come from, lots of things have...

This happened to me years ago as well. I saw what I thought were ghost shrimp labeled as "freshwater shrimp". Turned out to be Macrobrachium lanchesteri and ate some of my cherry shrimp. These guys are sold at Pets@Home all the time, so watch out. Here is an old picture of one finishing off a...

The feeder shrimp you buy in the UK are a native coldwater marine/brackish species. Being a euryhaline species, they are very robust to changes in water conditions, but will just slowly die in freshwater tropical aquarium. In the US, different species are sold as feeder shrimp, sometimes...

CRS and Amano shrimp Caridina multidentata are of the same genus (Caridina) but won't cross breed as their reproductive methods are different. Being much bigger and stronger, the Amano shrimp can use this strength and size to outcompete the CRS for the best food sources, and I've seen mine grab...

Fluval Shrimp safe is just an extremely watered-down version of regular dechlorinators, nothing shrimp specific about it besides marketing. I use Seachem Safe, I would use Seachem Prime if I had less/smaller aquariums though. By far the best value for money out of the aquarium branded...

Not sure on what type of wormy-critters those are, but nice clear pics! You could try add some assasin snails, they seem to eat worms in the substrate. Used to have lots of MTS and tubifex worms in my substrate, now I just have assassins :). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Beautiful crabs, some sort of fiddler crab, but don't know what species so wouldn't be sure what salinity, tank size etc. would be suitable sorry.

I'd just leave them in :). I find larger shrimp like Amano's and fish will eat them to at least control the population, gouramis are particularly recommended for this, but larger WCMMs can eat them too. My population of Neocaridina davidi is thriving and I've had Hydra in that tank forever (I...

Looks like the back-end of an Asellus water louse to me too.

I have loads of these guys now lol, started with a large colony of "sakura" red cherry shrimp and then added about 12 of these wild brown shrimp in 2008 thinking they were Caridina babaulti "Malaya". Now I mostly get brown but with a few bright red, dull blue, dull yellow and some almost black...

Indeed, off to do a proper trawl of the net now I'm at the PC! :)

Still not much luck really! One of the first results is just this thread lol. There's also a London Fish Keeping Club forum thread from 2010 discussing this species, with a few members names I recognise, but still no real info. Will be interesting to see if more info on this species becomes...

Do they look just like normal Amano shrimp but smaller? Do the baby shrimp hatch out as miniature versions of the adults like with cherry shrimp, or do the young have a larval stage? I'm intrigued as I can't find much on "mini Amano shrimp" on the web! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Where are you getting them from?

Ooh, what species are mini Amano shrimp? If it isn't just young Amano shrimp your talking about, I've not heard of them before! :D Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

YEAH! I saw one 3 days ago, out of 6. On average I'd say I see one twice a week in my 30" tank. Thinking about getting some more though, they are pretty cool. The fact I see them less makes it nicer when I do see them.