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I also have pesty planorbids and physids and i've recently put some blue ramshorns eggs in there. :lol: I used to have loads of pest snails and would spend ages picking them out or crushing them. Now I don't feed my fish and snails every day I don't have as many. So botias don't go well with shrimp?...

That photo is adorable....look how he's really concentrating and waiting.

Nothing to worry about. Just youthful exuberance. After being rolled up in an egg for a month you would have a hard time swimming straight too. :D Just keep the water quality high, do your weekly water changes, don't overfeed, and keep the phosphates and nitrates down. Soon you'll be overrun with C...

Are babies able to thrive in a filter? Doesn't the flow/suction/pressure affect them in any way?

I'm kinda worried about my filter now.

My lfs has only stocked amano and ghost shrimp for years so I brought up the different types of shrimp you can get to the owner. He wasn't aware of any other type of shrimp (they mainly do fish) and looked through his order book with me and found them....said he wasn't sure about ordering them in ca...

I bought four cherry shrimp yesterday and found out one was pregnant. She's had the babies earlier today and some seemed to swim really odd...round & round and upsidedown. :? I just saw a baby now and it was swimming fine....the others must be hiding. Why were they swimming like that? Is it poss...

The PH in my snail tanks has been 7.5 for around a year and a half now so my snail tanks i'm not so worried about. If I see a rise towards 8 i'll change to the quartz because a PH higher than 8 can erode snail's shells similar to a low PH. Snail keepers I know keep crushed coral sand in their filter...

Make sure the water is fairly soft, or you'll have a hard time maintaining an acid pH. Seachem Acid Buffer works for me. I think is is better to lower the pH rapidly rather than slowly. I also don't think it will hurt to just transfer him directly to the proper pH as long as the temperature is clos...

Ok i'm just going to go ahead and catch him whenever I next see him and add him as carefully as I can to my lower PH tank. I'll keep an eye on this thread while i'm looking out for him.

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Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum so please be gentle with me.....i've been a bit irresponsible :( but want to correct things.....any advice will be appreciated. I bought a tiger shrimp yesterday. My lfs never gets any shrimp in (except ghost and amanos) and he/she was the last one. I love shrimp (I...