Soothing Shrimp

"I do a 10 gallon(40%+-) water change 2-3 times a month." Why such a large water change?

Unfortunately it will only get worse. I'm an oldish guy, so when I was growing up neighbors looked out for the kids and called each other if something was going on. Now, nobody looks out, parents expect the schools to teach ethics/morals- the schools expect parents to teach it and so nobody gets taught anything about that. The kids of those "ignorant" kids are now being raised and...as said...it will only get worse...

elevianne, do you have any test kits?

And of course that screenshot is shrimpspot.com. What is your job, moss?

LOL It took me a while to see that, too. Since I did yesterday, I've been using it constantly.

I'm guessing either BP, blue rili or BV.

Sounds fair to me.

LOL I love it! Berries!

LOL I think tolerate is teh correct word on my end, too. heh

You'll get it figured out, dude!

Unfortunately, getting neo shrimp from overseas is not that uncommon to have this parasite. They have massive breeding tanks and just net as they need them. For crystals, they are much more picky about slective breeding, etc. It's too bad really, because I really have a love for neos and wish they would work more on health and selectively breeding those for different vars. Unfortunately, it's up to hobbiests like us to make up for the lack of interest there with neos.

Yep. No reason to do the whole tank.

Sounds like Vorticella- a parasite. Sometimes it does go away with molts, but the challenge you have is that you have to remove that molt ASAP or it will reinfect shrimp. Try a strong salt dip: 2 tablespoons of aquarium salt in a cup of water. 30 seconds in the dip, rinse in fresh water Often this does the trick. Sometimes a 2nd dip is needed, but the dip seems to work pretty well.

Welcome to shrimpland! heh

Well, names of shrimp shuld be avoided because nto everyone keeps the same thing. I like the idea of the 'shrimplets, juvies, subadults' thang, Of course it's the only thing suggested so far.

As mentioned, there is a free Plug-in for vBulletin called Tapatalk that could be installed and then you would have to buy the Tapatalk App. I'm not sure about IPS community.

Looks great, dude. What's your ph at? What temp? What TDS? I really dig the bi-level!

That is a huge pic in the post. The click part is working- it opens it up full size, but the pic is posted in full size as well instead of 400 x 400

Glad to have you here Mark.

Mark has a point. When my tanks have been filled with shrimp past a certain point, they stop breeding. It's almost like they know when population is too much.

I used to feed my mystery snails lots and lots of spinach when I was breeding them.

That would be coolish.

People have already mentioned CO2 and fert dangers. Some people are able to handle it pretty well, most people do not find a good balance. It seems that you made up your mind on that, so I hope you are one of the few that do. Cherries are one of the hardiest of the shrimp world. They can handle pretty drastic changes. I only water change between 10-20% at a time because shrimp in general like stable params and not too much stress. But, everyone has their own routine. TDS meter is not needed for cherries, but recommended. It is helpful sometimes for troubleshooting. Do you have other tests for water params?

What are the dots beneath our names? I'm guessing it has to do with so many posts, no? I was part of another forum where X number of posts gave a rank. In that case a Christmas forum: Reindeer Stable Attendant (0-9 Posts) Elf (after 10 posts) Senior Elf (after 30 Posts) Christmas Master (after 150 posts) Custom Title / Member's Choice * (after 300 posts) Do we want to do the same?

Cool it worked! Thanks folks!