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Afternoon all, got a question that I have no idea about: is it in anyway possible for a single assassin snail to have babies?

I have had my 2 shrimp tanks up and running since september/october of last year. All the plants I received were from members here, none of the tanks they came from had assassins. I got the 2 snails I have from my LFS, only 2 were in the bag and I just plucked them out and dropped them into the tank so no water or hitchhikers were included. One went into one tank, the other into the second. Just the other day, I saw a baby assassin snail in one of the tanks and found another after doing a thorough search. The original snail is doing fine other than a small piece of his body is missing on a side. The other tank still has just the one.

I've done some looking after finding the babies and have asked in a couple other places, but everyone is stumped. Every place I've looked says that they need to mate for babies. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this before? I'm at a complete loss.

Don't lose hope, if you have a few plants and some moss, the babies love to hide in there. First berried shrimps I had (3 at once) all Lost their eggs at the same time. Thought they dropped since I couldn't find any babies at all. 2 weeks later, there were shrimplets all over the place. So I'd say be patient and wait. If they hatched, they'll be out and about soon

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Thank you all. It hitched along with the first batch of plants I got almost a year ago. Now I know what it is!

kinda up close one. was closer than I thought when I took it. 

I can try for a better picture if needed

Is this wave moss? Center on the driftwood.

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Link to one I got, not sure of the difference to yours:

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Thought this would be a good share. Couple day old shrimplet getting a tour of the tank

Welcome! Where about are you? There's a couple of us from Boise/Meridian here

My orange pumpkin shrimp ball, now with shrimplets!

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Those purple zebras are really cool

If you're looking for cheap and can DIY, here's Joey's vid about making an LED one.

Don't know about this, but being a current-usa product, I'd imagine that lights would be decent. 

Very nice and clean. Make me want to try it. But I'm pretty sure my wife would kill me...

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Ok, they should be fine. Just skip feeding for today so they can work out all the extra food and there shouldn't be any problems.

How often do you feed and how much? I feed my fish once a day and only what they eat in about 3 minutes. Skip a day or two a week also for fasting days.

Might be good to skip a day or two for yours to let them clear out.

Sealing is very easy. As for the glass cutting, look around for local custom glass shops. They'll be able to make the panes to what you need

I'm in IT also, and bowl a lot...

Main hobby outside of computer games is bowling (have it in my mind to try going pro at some point). Fishkeeping is 3rd, started with mixed cichlids almost 5 years ago. Last year I changed to African cichlids after some issues. Also started a community tank last year and this year, starting shrimp.

So there's my short story.

Welcome! Lots of great information around here for us newbies

I use flourish, blue velvets are breeding just fine. Pumpkins are still too new though but haven't seen any problems. Only dose once a week

Should just be able to transfer the filter and shrimp at the same time one the substrate settles. Filter is already cycled so there shouldn't be any problems