My yellows had one clutch, mama passed away. I'm excited about this! I love my blues and she's the prettiest one! Full mama!

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?

No September photo because I had a poopy month

Didn’t know they were so hard to photograph

I got blues as my first shrimps.. I had them for a couple weeks now, I see the saddle on some then they molt and nothing happens.. are these 5 females!?

PS: I’ll add the picture of the 5th in comments

I have been battling against aquatic leeches for the last month or so. I'm located in Australia so finding Fenbenazole has been very difficult. I have been treat the aquarium with horse dewormer that contains Fenbenazole as that is all that I have been able to get my hands on.

Today I found another small leeches after treating the tank three times with the dewormer. Does anyone have any advice on where to go from here? Should I just import Panacur C and dose with that?

These are golden bee caridina. She is my biggest lady, and we are around 3.5 weeks since I noticed the eggs.

They were completely dark to start, but now they have noticeable orange with some darker bits.

I keep saying we'll have babies soon, but all my family is like, "You've been saying that for weeks!" I know, but soon!

First molt I caught on camera

For context, I had a near empty fish tank while I was on a roadtrip and my friend who was looking after the house spontaneously got me a cherry shrimp. I was not prepared and I still don’t have all the resources I think a shrimp owner might need, but I have no idea whether Petco or wherever my friend picked her up from takes returns on live creatures and I don’t know anyone I could give her to, so I ended up keeping her. I don’t know if this was the right thing to do, but we’re here now.

She is the only creature in this tank other than a Nerite snail who was there before she arrived and she’s been really happy and energetic for the past two or so months (my friend got her for me in the tail end of July). About a week ago she molted and has been acting normal since then until yesterday in which I noticed she wasn’t moving around as much. She’s had days before where she lazes around more and has been perfectly fine, so I didn’t think anything of it. Today, I noticed her molt (which had been left by the filters where it had been shed) was gone and she was really bloated and moving around exclusively on the bottom of the tank.

There is no male shrimp for her to make eggs with, but I heard cherry shrimps can lay infertile eggs without a partner. Nothing about the tank has changed over the past week or so, so I don’t know what could be bothering her. I did see her strain to push something white out from between her tail and legs and tail, which I think is concerning but I really don’t know. She’s still moving around and foraging, but very slowly. I know cherry shrimps don’t live long and I don’t know how old she is. Can anyone help me figure out what is happening?

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

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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?

I swear.

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

Theyre always together lol

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

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.

Have had a tank for about 3 months now, stocked for 2. Shrimp are molting fairly often, had 1 mom give birth and 2 others are eggnant right now. Feeding Bacter AE 1/4 to 1/3 of a scoop every 2-3 days.

Still leaning but I’m really enjoying these little dudes and dudettes!