Ignore the clown killi fish, she likes to photobomb.
Yes I know some shrimp keepers cull the duller ones, but I refuse, I love all my skrimps. I don't care if their 'grade' goes down over time, they're my babies.
Like I said to Melina, Shrimp are easy if you know what you're doing, but make sure you understand the nitrogen cycle and acclimate them SLOWLY to a WELL ESTABLISHED tank and don't mess with parameters once they're happy because they hate big changes.
Thank you! I do not have anything except an empty, dry aquarium as yet, so maybe this is more of a future project than a current one for me.
I like your skrimps thank you for sharing
Good place to start, this place is legit: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/cherry-shrimp-care
They've got a great YouTube channel as well
I used to have fish but I got tired of having to drink all the tank water everytime i cleaned it out. Its a lot of water
You don't need to drink it. You can also make soup or cook pasta with it...
I keep zooming in on each individual one and noticing the silly eyeballs and am loving them. They are cute lil guys
So cute!!! I love fish and shrimp tanks. I have a betta fish and guppies. One day I'd like to have shrimp too.
The most important thing about cherry shrimp is that they HATE CHANGE. So once they're happy, don't fuck with the tank. Also, make sure your tank has gone through a nitrogen cycle before adding them. They are very hardy once established but that stability is an important hurdle that can fuck you over.
Good place to start, this place is legit: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/cherry-shrimp-care
They've got a great YouTube channel as well
I'm passionate about glass boxes filled with water and beautiful friends, and this is a good one.
I love my neocardina! If you have a suitable tank you should get some immediately because you'll be cleaning it much less often. Unfortunately tank mates are hard, most fish will eat the fry and probably at least attempt to go for the adults, although I have successfully had them thriving and even breeding in a 15 gallon with a betta who once, with a full stomach, devoured 4 the moment they were added and before I had a chance to intervene. Trick was to add the betta to an already established group, although people report mixed results with this method. Really interesting behavior, basically the perfect aquatic pet
Yeah the only tankmates I've had any luck with are clown killifish and even then I suspect they're snacking on the odd baby skrimp.
If I ever catch them doing it I'll be making it a shrimp only tank for sure. I only have the killis because I needed something to eat the copepods and detritus worms that kept moving in.
I have dwarf barbs in one of my tanks for the exact same reason, unfortunately despite supposedly having some of the smallest mouths they are nimble af and suspiciously this is the only tank in which the shrimp have not taken off. I never caught them in the act, but same with my betta and when they passed (fuck dropsy) the population exploded. Fwiw, in my limited experience the detritus worm and copepod community has always calmed to what I consider an acceptable level with time and without predators, I'm not sure why this is
Oh and snails are good friends for shrimp, but they eat like crazy and produce a lot of waste
I've had good luck so far by pairing them with 5 Zoogoneticus Tequilas in a 40 gallon breeder. The fish definitely can eat the baby shrimp, but having plenty of plant/algae masses to hide in should mitigate that. They are great fish in need of conservation and not much harder to care for than your more traditional live-bearers, like guppies and swordtails.
Side note, one of the female Tequilas just gave birth yesterday and the other two appear to be pregnant!
I wasn't familiar, what a cool fish, congrats on being a tequila grandparent!
Also, holy shit you weren't kidding:
Zoogoneticus tequila is endemic to the Ameca River basin in west-central Mexico. Its current distribution is restricted to a single spring pool in Teuchitlán, only 4 metres (13 ft) in diameter, where a population consisting of less than 50 adult fish live
Is it hard/expensive to get started with an aquarium? I love the idea with it but it’s scary to get started :c
Depends what you want to keep lol. Just keep in mind that aquariums involve annoying water chemistry and definately have a learning curve. But if you do enough research you should be fine.
you can find a lot of used aquarium and equipment in your local adverts. I still have a lot of aquarium stuff I need to get rid of since I stopped running my tanks. Learn the nitrogen cycle, and keep things simple. Aquarium shops will try to sell you a bunch of expensive stuff that you don't need. Get good filter media (porous rocks with a lot of surface area to allow beneficial bacterial to grow for the nitrogen cycle), you never need to replace filter media. If the flow of your filter slows down, just rinse the media with tank water.
