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success! just finished my 5 day maracyn treatment with no shrimp loss. in fact, i've got a female holding eggs now! everyone has colored out now and i officially have 4 females and 1 male. that lucky little dude. only problem is if something happens to him, breeding halts.

Oqsy

my cherries refuse everything i try to feed them, including softened spinach, hikari algae, multiple types of flake food, softened green pea, & marineland bottom feeder tablets. after a few hours i remove the food since i'm already dealing with enough bga and nematodes, and spoiling food would ...

replied to wrong post... doh!

http://img83.exs.cx/img83/8197/cherries1.th.jpg
http://img83.exs.cx/img83/4452/cherries2.th.jpg

3 little cherries sitting in a tree... K-I-S-S-I-N-G

i moved things around a bit in the tank and what were some very introverted cherries have decided to come out to play. I'm seeing them more and ...

i'm lightened... after i read that back i realized that it sounded more confrontational than i intended... i don't really know why i put it quite like that, but it wasn't quite the way i meant it. hmm.. i guess i just meant to say, first had experience is appreciated. i'd just spent the morning ...

AH-HA I caught you! holding out on me witht he x mas moss LOL do you shrimps seem to love it as much as I do?

say what? holding out on you? i suppose i was :roll:

the only meds I would get near my shrimp, snail or crayfish tanks would be Melafix....

any elaboration on that? i'm looking for ...

if that's the case, my shrimp must be on a hunger strike. they haven't touched the stuff, and seem to be preferring a fungus that is growing on my driftwood. the only reason i'm interested in using a med. to get rid of it is that it's smothering my christmas moss, which i'm quite fond of. i guess i ...

the consensus so far (forums and websites)is that maracyn and similar antibiotics are shrimp safe if dosed appropriately. i have some cyanobacteria that is getting out of control, and i will probably try this method as long as no one knows or has read of side effects on shrimp.

Oqsy

amanda_h,
i agree, your pics are fantastic! what do you feed your shrimp, specifically asking because of the outstanding color on the cherry in the group pic... ideally mine will color up more as they mature, but man... that has to be the most "cherry" colored cherry i've ever seen. great pics and ...

Is this correct? Is the natural sex ratio in shrimp 1:1?

In a species that is not pair-bond-forming and shows no parental care, it is not uncommon for the ratio to be skewed towards females. Further, in may species, enviornment factors can have a great effect on the ratio of males to females ...

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here is my 10 gallon with cherries, java ferns and christmas moss... no shrimp visible in the picture... using a $20 webcam for now :( maybe one day I'll be able to get some better pics of the shrimp playing on the moss.

Oqsy

p.s. here's a link ...

your chances of getting a "male or female" out of 3 shrimp is 100%

:)

each shrimp has a 50/50 chance of being male, and the same for female... it's like tossing a coin... trying to predict the sex with percentages is pretty much useless at such a small number. it's quite possible that you have 3 ...