First time I’ve made solid eye contact with one of them! Thrilling!

My sweet momma shrimp is having her babies today, here is a short 20 second clip of one hatching!

Ive been told by people I should clean the glass and here is my counter argument the neos like it

I recently upgraded from a 3 gallon to a 5 gallon tank for my shrimp and I'm pretty happy with the final look as all the plants fully establish and grow in. Planted with pearlweed, repens, anubias, water onion, a dwarf lily, aponogeton, java moss, and dwarf hair grass with red root floaters, frogbit, and an emersed pothos on top. And seeing as how 3 of my females are now berried, I'd say the shrimp are pretty happy with their new home as well!

i’m a beginner in the hobby and my jar finished cycling so i drip acclimated my shrimp and added them in yesterday. it’s been less than 24 hours since they have been in here but i just wanted to know if this is normal behavior and make sure they aren’t stressed or uncomfortable! they’re kinda just racing around like this.

UPDATE: a couple have died including the pregnant one :( but i read that it’s very likely to have a couple deaths in the first day even if you’re doing everything right so hopefully no more die

Hello shrimp aficionados!

Took this video the other day and thought it was really neat how you could see the babies being whisked around in there given they’ve developed their eyes spots and that’s much more visually trackable than just yellow egg dots.

They hatched about 12 hours later.

🦐

I did nothing but sharpen the original RAW file from my phone (other than add my watermark). No color tweaks. No highlights/shadows adjustments. I figured out a new way to orient the exterior lights against my tank so that it throws both shadows and highlights on the surface of every internal structure from multiple directions. You may need your phone screen at full brightness. Zoom in slowly. Do you see all of that intricate detail on internal structure like I do? I think the easiest spot to start with is just a little ways behind the eye.

first pic is old, i no longer have blue-green algae in my tank.

my family consumes a lot of white rice, so i drop a few plain cooked grains in the tank every couple days, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I like trying the shrimp with new foods, so besides rice, i've tried inside of strawberry, bits of dried date, blueberry, peeled mango (one of their favorites I find), boiled carrot, blanched spinach, peeled apple, and peeled cucumber.

a lot of these foods are pretty high in sugar.

i feed pretty small amounts and the food is gone in a couple hours or so usually.

so besides water quality issues, which i haven't really had recently, would any of these foods be unhealthy for shrimp? too high in sugar or fat or starch or something?

do i need to offer more nutritious foods? the tank is 20 gallons and well-established so there's lots of biofilm, but i like feeding anyway.

I have a 5.5 gallon planted tank stocked with neocaridinia and a small army of ramshorn snails. In the past few weeks I have been seeing significantly fewer shrimp out and about in the tank and today I came home to a dead shrimp. I'm concerned this is a sign of an underlying issue or imbalance somewhere in the tank. Thanks in advance for the help!

Hopefully useful context:
-I set up the tank with plants (potting soil under black diamond blasting sand for substrate) in mid-late June and added 16 shrimp in late August.

-After adding shrimp initially I would commonly see 10-12 shrimp out and about in the tank, these days I usually see 4-6.

-I began fertilizing using PPS Pro dosing in early September (roughly 3 weeks after adding shrimp) after noticing signs of nutrient deficiency in the plants at the bottom of the tank. There are several houseplants growing out the top of the tank, and my assumption was that they were out competing the aquatic plants for nutrients due to access to atmospheric CO2 leading the the nutrient deficiencies I was seeing.

-As recommended by the PPS Pro method I have been using a digital TDS meter to determine when to water change. This has resulted in roughly weekly water changes of 30-50% of the water volume. I match the temperature of the water I am adding to the tank water when doing water changes and the pH of my tank water is consistent with my tap water. The only additives I use are water conditioner. I was planning on doing a water change this evening, but have stopped due to the dead shrimp. The shrimp I see out in the tank while changing water do not appear stressed by the experience.

-My parameters have generally held very steady over the life of the tank with the exception of nitrate and phosphate which have both risen slightly since beginning the fertilizer routine. Nitrite 0ppm, Nitrate 0-5ppm (5ppm today), Ammonia .25ppm, Phosphate 0-1ppm (.5ppm today), pH 7.5, GH 7, KH 6

-Some of the shrimp have grown visibly and significantly since being added to the tank.

-I usually feed about half of a Shrimp Envy Complete pellet every 2-3 days. I occasionally replace this with a tiny pinch of bacter ae. I also regularly crush small snails against the glass and the shrimp often eat the results. I was traveling this past weekend (Thurs-Sat) and left some Shrimp Envy Snow in the tank as a grazing food. I fed as normal on Sunday and have not fed since.

So I was sold ‘Bloody Mary’ shrimps by two different sellers. I’m pretty new to shrimp-keeping but I’m sure something’s off about one of them — the one with the yellow saddle looks more like a cherry red, while the other one looks more bloody-mary like 🧐

Could anyone confirm? Was I scammed?

He was like a very dark brown color the same Color as fluval substrate when I first got him. but now he’s bigger and black with a brown dry looking weird stripe on him , what’s this and is it normal?

Actually I am not sure If it is their dead brother or some unfortunate fish fry, both is fair game for them.

Sorry for the awful quality! I'm so excited if it is eggs!