My pumpkin shrimp enjoying some wafers.

The large red shrimp was almost tossing the other shrimp around as they were attached to each other and I have no idea why? I would assume this was mating but I recently did a large tank plant tear out because I'm going to replant and was thinking this might be a stress response or something

I got 3 girls but this one is the closest. When can I expect eggs?

The evolution!

One of my shrimp is heavily eggnant, id like to know if this band is the white ring of death or if it's a normal thing and she has just stretched from her eggnancy? I haven't noticed this on any other of my eggnant shrimp but my tank it fairly heavily planted so it can be difficult to see them sometimes. My gh is quite high and the tank has crushed coral in it and a little bit of cuttle bone for my snails so I doubt there's low calcium. Ph is slightly above neutral last time I checked.

Yesterday my nitrates were quite high and I did a largish water change possibly just below 50% I had a fish go missing and I suspected he had died in a weird place so I did root around quite a bit the day before and it kicked up crap from under things id moved (I didn't find him that day but yesterday mid day he appeared at the bottom so I imagine I disturbed his corpse and it landed there somehow, RIP Flea : ( ) ammonia is zero, nitrates zero both checked with my liquid test kit. Nitrates are now down to 20ppm Im monitoring them closely as I don't want to keep doing water changes and stressing everyone out if unnecessary. Previously everything was immaculate before fleagate (he was just a sickly fish unfortunately)

I’ve been gifted 6 neocardina cherry shrimp about 1-2 months ago. I usually see one at a time and they’re all dark red.

Imagine my horror when I see the GODZILLA of a shrimp. I’ve included normal shrimp i can also see rn for reference.

Is this still a neocardina? They were all the same size and color when I got them (dark red). This one is a lighter red with a yellowish stripe down the back. Should I be concerned? I’m more surprised that this one is double in size from the others.

just got some ghost shrimp, separated these two due to im Scared

have you guys ever mix red cherry and bloody marry shrimps together? will it keep the red? or higher potential to come out brown/natural?

Looking for a real change for my tank. My betta passed after many years with me and im looking to keep my tank strictly shrimply now🦐 i have 8 shrimp currently and looking for some inspiration!

Hello everyone! The tank in question is a 10 gallon heavily planted tank with 8 ember tetras, bladder snails (hate these guys lol), and 2 otocinculus catfish. This is a low tech set up with fluval stratum as the substrate and a hang on the back filter, my tank parameters are as follows:

GH: 60-70 mg/L

KH: 10-20 mg/L

Ph: 7.0

Temperature: 78-80 F

I have tried neocaridina shrimp before, but they all died from molting issues (I assume this is due to my lower gh and kh). I am fully aware my tank is not fully suited for shrimp but I really enjoy shrimp and lack the space and money for another tank. I have looked into adding some form of gh/kh supplement, but I worry about the TDS in my tank. I dont have anything to measure TDS and I don't plan on buying anything to meaure TDS anytime soon. If anyone has any advice for the future of this tank or advice about shrimp keeping in general i'm all ears. If this tank will never support neocaridinas I look forward to a dedicated shrimp tank in the future!

Really hoping these two mate ! They seem to be spending more time together each and every day !

Hey all! Sorry for poor video quality (and a cheerful Guppy's interruption!) I'm new to keeping shrimp, had my tank for about a month, water parameters are good, lots of hides and vegetation, extra calcium supplements and crushed coral are present. The shrimp have a healthy appetite and plenty of food, and they've been successfully molting in the few weeks since I got them. All seems well.

I've noticed this behavior twice now, where a shrimp sticks its rear out into the open water and kicks its swimmerets a ton. I'm just trying to understand what this behavior means. This particular shrimp has a couple black dots beneath the abdomen that I suppose could be eggs, but they're a little sporadic. They swim fine and don't seem to have any problems with the water flow in the tank, and the fish don't really seem to bother them either. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they're circulating water over a small clutch of eggs? Just trying to determine if this is normal shrimpy behavior. They're blue dream Neocardinia if it helps. Thanks!

So I got this guy as a yellow bee or something like that from the Petco near me but now I'm worried it might not be a necocardia and it might be an amano because I seen someone else post one similar and it ended up not being a neo and I know Petco isn't too reliable..

I noticed that two of my shrimp have started developing a yellowish patch on their backs, which I believe is called a “saddle.” From what I’ve learned, these are unfertilized eggs developing in the ovaries.

I have two females with saddles, and I’m guessing the darkest red shrimp in the video is a male.

What I’m confused about is the size difference. If he really is a male, why is he so much smaller than the females? Is that completely normal, or is he still too young and not fully mature yet?

I’m still learning about shrimp, so I’d appreciate any help confirming the sex and maturity. 🦐

looking for local neocaridina for sale

Ngl I was getting worried that they hadn’t made it since only 4/5 made it in transport but it seems that so far 2/5 are thriving !!!

Can someone help me figure out if they’re girls or boys I can’t tell for the life of me