Soothing Shrimp

They start clear and then get color as they start getting a little older.

Welcome to the forum. Hopefully someone will chime in on the type of nerite that is.

I think he is selling them as well. Contact him.

Congrats! I was going to look at the pics, but the photos are not working.

Always good to have experiments repeated by different people to compare conclusions. Thank you Mayphly for experimenting, and thank you Shrimpfan to bringing it to our attention.

+1 Littlebirdie, that happened to me before. Once it starts, it is very hard to stop for some reason.

Takes a longer period of time, but yeah. Lots of people first notice it by feeding yellows too much spinach as an only option. That's when I first became curious. When I started shrimping, I fed only spinach. My yellows started turning weird colors after a while, and I pm'ed Mord. He told me to get some food for them quick. I have an idea he had never heard or seen it before, so he tried to help the best he could. I switched foods to another shrimp only food, and they got their color back after awhile. That's when I knew there was something that caused color problems and I set out to find it. heh

Sounds like something with params are off. Possible water change will do it, too.

Are you able to get a pic? I'd love to see it.

How much for brackets?

I'd be wary about using melafix. I tried it with my crays to remove some harmless fungus and they died. shrimp are inverts too and even more sensitive than crays...

What kind of snail? I've heard of snail leeches, but only on some exotic ones.

Here's an interesting article dealing with Marble crays on Production of different phenotypes from the same genotype in the same environment by developmental variation. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/211/4/510.full

How horrible! I'm glad you saved some though. Thanks for the reminder to everyone who owns animals.

Majones got it in from Japan from an importer. Contact him.

Mostly comes from a special type of algae. Actually healthy for most animals,however for neos it works on the brownish spectrum and muddies colors.

The directions do say to place in front of the color card...

Only way to find out is to take a sample of each and cross them. If no wilds, and phenotype is constant- you're good.

Hi Sarah. Sounds like your biofilm is good. Some foods the shrimp just wander over to, and others they attack. Just depends on your colony. As far as swimming, usually shrimp only go crazy swimming after a water change or when a female molts.

Great looking fish. Welcome to the forum!

As you said, doesn't hurt to ask. Good luck with your project!

yeah, there's some confusion because certain shrimp colors can look like other colors. I personally think dream blue rilis and blue carbon rilis look the same.

yep. That's why competitors are stating now. Oblong, I still have a preference for the Kordons. I know what you are talking about with the floppiness though on the larger. I'm dog earing and taping the corners of the bag starting next shipping run, and I think that will make a difference.

I just tried it. 2/3 of my crystal/TB tanks flocked to it, and the last tank casually ate it. Winnah winnah chicken dinnah.

I've heard conflicting reports on that. Some say it stays in the substrate and silicone for awhile.