need help with shrimps (new member and newbie)

[toshinobu]

I put in 2 amano shrimps into my tank. I thought that they should've been hardy. One is gone 2 days later and the other 2 more days later....
My parameters were ok.... Its a bit hard to keep them

[genki89]

Everything seems good after 2weeks. The oil film is lesser, or i should say i hardly see any... thanks to the top water plant.

The shrimplets are doing fine but the adults not so, 50% gone. The leafs are melting, chipping and new leaf sprouts. So i guess its normal?

I also found a nest of unknown eggs which i removed. However, i noticed there are 2 baby snails (those round shell found commonly on plants). Do you guys think i should remove them or just leave it in the tanks since they are not causing problems to my shrimps as of now

[Urban Aquaria]

If you spot snail egg sacs, it would be better to manually remove them if possible, otherwise you may face an increasing population of pond snails in the tank.

Pond snails are harmless to shrimps, but they do compete for food and resources, and if the snail population becomes too large it can look quite unsightly to some people... unless you like keeping snails too.

[genki89]

After much tries, finally i see this mamma berried (i hope that what i see is right. Seems to have alot of circles stuff. Slightly yellow under the light)

I saw it constantly flapping water underneath. But i was confused, do they eat their own eggs? I saw this shrimp taking out its eggs and putting it back.

[Urban Aquaria]

Berried shrimps will constantly fan the eggs to create circulation around them, they will also re-position the existing eggs in the process of creating new ones, its a normal activity.

[genki89]

Wah heng ah. Thanks.

There was a few time position of the shrimp, lighting and location was good, but my camera really chui all the photos blurred

[genki89]

Today i changed the tank water and observed for about 10min.. the berried shrimp no longer carry eggs nor there are any new baby shrimplets. What happen? Miscarriage or she eat her own egg? Please help.. thanks

[Urban Aquaria]

Could be the eggs all hatched and the shrimplets are hiding.

[genki89]

When i 1st bought this pack of shrimps it also have berried shrimps. After i release the bag, more shrimplets was seen.

But this time round i cannot even see a single shrimplets. Did some online research, some say need to wait 4 days to 7 days to actually see the shrimplets. Hope it will really happen.

[Urban Aquaria]

Sometimes its possible the bag of shrimps already contain lots of newborn shrimplets, if you can see them then they are usually already a few days old, very common for shrimplets to get netted in during packing.

Newborn shrimplets are very tiny and transparent... like a spec of dust, usually you'll only see them after a few days after they molt a few times and grow larger.

If you really don't see any shrimplets or none that at least survive to juvenile size, then could it be the water conditions are not so conducive for their development, shrimplets tend to be alot more sensitive than adult shrimps. They molt very often, so any molting issues will affect them much more.

[alanchow76]

Usually the larger tanks (bigger than 2, 3 ft) are more stable and the shrimps will breed like nobody business.
Perhaps the water parameters are more stabilized due to less changes in parameters.
It happened in my 3 feet planted tanks.
I also saw this in a 4 feet tank that succesufuly bred PBL.
Ada soil and simple setup

[genki89]

Need help to identify the snail. Its not what i thought to be garden snail

[Urban Aquaria]

Need help to identify the snail. Its not what i thought to be garden snail

Thats just a common pond snail (aka bladder snail).

http://www.planetinverts.com/pond_snail.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physidae

[genki89]

Ua really freshwater excoppdia

[Urban Aquaria]

Ua really freshwater excoppdia

Well, i've spent enough time dealing with those critters before, so quite familiar with them.

[Vincentwangzx]

Hello! I'm so glad I found this forum! I live in Punggol and I have been following Fishlore for a year or so! Didn't know we had a local forum sia! Anyway, I just want to say that I keep a 5 litre tank at work too, and face similar issues of temperature as you! I keep a planted tank, with a fast growing plant and I used spiderwood to make a tree with Java moss. Here's a pic of my shrimp on a Marimo moss. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1423497282.273101.jpg
I keep 8 RCS some are fire reds. I have an oto in there to manage algae too. His name is MJ cos sometimes he moves backwards like moonwalking. Haha. Nice to know a fellow shrimp keeper!


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[genki89]

Hahaha welcome. Everything in my tank is stable. Now just left the breeding part. Im also thinking of getting some wood to add my big moss ball at the top so it looked like a rain tree.

But have to wait till it breed and after cny. Where u got urs? Seaview or c328?

[Vincentwangzx]

Why does everyone talk about Seaview here? Where is it ah? I buy my stuff at Serangoon North Petsmart, and a few other shops along the pet walk


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[genki89]

Seaview is at seletar. Lfs where i get almost everything there. I am not sure about the price but it is somewhat cheaper compare to those void deck shop. More variety and give u "idea" on ur scaping

[Vincentwangzx]

I see! And c328? Paiseh new here so not sure of the terms


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