I initially thought vorticella because I saw a white speck, but this thing has some worm-like movement where it kinda bobs in and out?

What could this be?? And is a salt dip the move or is there a different way to treat whatever this is?

Please help!!

Edit: still not sure what that was, didn’t look much like vorticella OR any other parasite I could find online. A quick salt dip did get rid of it though! :)

I have been finding one dead shrimps every week now (picture in comments). This is the latest one today.

Could it be because of temperature? I opened my windows yesterday and thermometer near tank showed 24.5°c. Usually its 26°c.

I've been out of the hobby for a while and I am going to work toward having another shrimp tank soon. I do have some supplies still - test kit, ferts, gh and kh powder, etc. What is the shelf life for some of these things? It's been a few years now since I bought them, maybe 3-4, and would love to not have to drop a ton of money again at the start.

Basically the title, I have a shrimp tank but for some reason I only seem to get female shrimp from my local store, and I really want to get some breeding going. They don’t stock shrimp regularly and they sell out really fast. I was wondering if anyone had recs for good online places to buy shrimp.

Just noticed this little gal has lots of little white dots in her abdomen and is fanning them. None of the others ever had this before, does it look like she has some babies in there?

Note, this is freshwater tank so I'm a bit confused 🤣

Long and short of it, I went back and forth with an aquarium owner to get some shrimp with the goal of breeding and selling them back to him. We agreed on blue bolts and I waited weeks for them to get in. Before I was allowed to pick them up I was told he let his employee buy all but 9 of them.

He assured me they weren’t picked over and very high quality. I bought the remaining ones and have had them for 3 weeks with no color change.

Additionally I believe I was sold only one female, she’s been berried for two weeks now. No others have berried, and when she molted the other 8 went crazy.

Have I been scammed? Are these high quality blue bolts? What are the odds that I got 8 males? Any recommendations?

New to the hobby! Got a 1.6 gal tank next to my desk I been maintaining. Plants melted. Algae keeps growing. Forgot about changing my filter.

But nobody works harder than this lil guy who loves to be upside-down and cleaning cuttings I forgot about.

Could you guys help me figure out the gender of this shrimp, I'm usually pretty good about it but this one I'm not sure. I'm leaning male but

My shrimp are arriving tomorrow, but I bought shrimp from two different sellers and now I'm facing the consequences.

Currently I have the skittles I introduced incorrectly, one had clado, which I have removed and put in the hospital tank.

Herein lies my dilemma. Shrimp are dying in my main community tank, I had a clado infested shrimp in the tank for about 15 minutes. Parameters are 0.5/0/0 and GH 7 and KH 3. My community tank is 6 or 7 months old I don't remember exactly. Spotted Blue Eyed Rainbowfish and sparkling gourami. My neos, a Japanese trapdoor snail and a mystery snail.

I have added hydrogen peroxide twice in the two days I've had the shrimp. I dosed based on the clado treatment link on the pinned article. I treat their water with prime and equilibrium dosed according to the instructions.

I have also dosed the hospital tank with hydrogen peroxide according to those instructions. I have also done salt dips according to instructions I found on here. Doing daily water changes. (Do want to ask how I sanitize my acrylic hospital tank.)

My "whalefall" tank. 2 months old, had it fully cycled then had a recent reading of 0.25/0/5 GH 8 KH 3, added prime and stability every day since (I'm disabled some days I just don't have the energy to test each tank individually). Currently has 10 blue dreams. Ordered 10 more meant to arrive tomorrow, but I don't have an open tank to quarantine them in. I'm also completely wiped of my filter and heater supply, and I don't have the funds to go buy more right now.

What do I do?

tldr: don't have an open tank to quarantine shrimp in, or enough filters/heaters. What should I do/how can I fix this?

Edit: currently doing a 25% water change on the community tank. Should I do more? I'll also do a water change for the shrimp tank

I know the pictures are blurry but my shrimp has something stuck on her legs and it’s been a couple of days

Came home from work and my orange amano is gone :((( white ring of death? is it the kh/gh? I’ve had her for months

Hello all this is my first time having shrimp, but I have had other small fish tanks and snail tanks before. This is my first experience with a planted tank however, as well as first time using sand with bio substrate. I did a two month cycle with just plants before adding any critters, nitrite, nitrate, chlorine, ammonia, and copper were all zero. GH of 250, TA of 120, and pH of 7.6. About a month ago I added two small nerites, 5 nano fish, and 20 blue jellies. The first week went great, but then I started having deaths. Did small water changes more frequently, raked the sand, retested the parameters, nothing had changed. Temperature has been stable around 76F. Seems to have stabilized mostly, but still experiencing intermittent shrimp deaths. I probably only have 5 left of the original 20. Does anyone have some advice? Considering not getting anymore shrimp even though I had really wanted them.

Shrimp is still acting normally and I haven’t seen any others with this. It’s in an established, planted community tank with several types of fish and snails.

I've had these ghost shrimp for about 2 weeks, I lost one at the start but the others were fine, one is even berried. Then I noticed today 2 of them have started going pale and I'm a little concerned. I don't think it's muscle necrosis as they seem less white than the one I had die so I'm leaning more towards molting but you can never be too careful. I just did a water change,(it's how I noticed them) and everything is normal, nitrites were present but now after the change they have lowered back down. I came here because people tend to not keep ghosts as pets and was hoping someone somewhere has any experience with them. Including some great pics of them too : )

I don’t even know how they got here, Its on a separate system and nothing has ever been in here

Im supposed to be getting new fish in this tank tomorrow. Is it safe to, and how would I move them into my main tank?

Got my shrimp tank prepped. Waiting for some more biofilm and algae to show up.

How does it look?
Yes, there is a heater, sponge filter and air stone.

I swear.

Terrible pics but we are throwing a baby shower right now!

Theyre always together lol

We are one month in with my 10gal nano tank! I just got in my 20ct shipment from Mark Shelly Aquatics, and somehow ended up with 41, and one DOA. Indiana to Florida!! I ended up getting so many pretty colors!! I now have if I had to guess, around 52 little buggers of all ages and colors. 2 from what I’ve seen are berried and quite large!