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Today I noticed my berried shrimp had no eggs. ITs been maybe 2 or 3 weeks. I read an article that hatched shrimp egg casings will float and I see some circular things floating at the top but that could be wrong. I dont see any shrimplets. Will shrimps egg casings float? should i be worried that...

Hey, sorry this is actually a terrarium question. in my paludarium I recently added some isopods, a snail, and some new moss, nothing big. Came back to check on them today and saw this worm. I believe it to be a land planaria. Are they dangerous? will they go into the water at all?

I am 99 percent sure that they are copepods. Do we need to find out what species they are? also, Im happy to do it with a bigger tank if necessary. Thanks

I looked them up, and they dont look super similar. the ones in my tank have a long skinny tail which it doesnt look like the scuds have. Also, it said scuds were generally 5 to 20 milimeters in length, which seem a lot bigger than mine. Mine are way smaller than that. They are probably between...

probably nothing bigger than 5 gallons. I am not sure what kind of copepods they are, they hitched along on the plants or something else. They mainly stay on the substrate but sometimes they will swim up for a bit. They have fairly long antenae and their tail isn't split, which from my research...

Trying to see if I could have a small tank with just 1 or 2 small fish that could live off of a self sustaining copepod population, so basically no maintenance. Would this be a viable option, and if so, what fish would be the best options? also, the copepods i have spend a lot more time on the...

dont have exact parameters right now but nitrites and ammonia 0, a little bit of nitrates, 300-350 gh, 80-120 gh, and ph 7.5-8 I have 4 neocaridinas. 2 of them recently got berried. Today I found one of them dead. It still has its eggs. It has a bit of lost color around its abdomen around its...

I am wondering if it is possible to start a copepod culture that is self sustaining. I was thinking maybe there could be two separate tanks with one above the other. The bottom one would have copepods or daphnia or some phytoplankton eater like that and the top one would be where all the...

hopefull these are better the first was very blurry. It might be hard to find as I only got one worm in the sucker thing but look around in the tube and you will see a squiggly white line

its the little white strand

one sec ill figure out a way to get a picture. I haven't added anything new in the past while. It is a planted tank. The pants came from petsmart. They were the ones that are kept in the gel stuff at the bottom so they werent in water, but maybe the worms could still survive on them. As of right...

I was vacuuming my sand today and say some white thread looking things floating around. They were kind of wiggling around, but I thought it was just from the swishes of water i was making by lifting the vacuum thingy up. However when the water stopped moving it kept wiggling and then when it...

Recently I tried to start a fish tank but was new to the hobby and all the neon tetras and some of the shrimp died from ammonia. You can find all the information for that in my thread titled new neon tetra breathing fast. I had to cycle the tank. For the past four days there has been around 0...

I am using API pond water dechorinator and heavy metal neutralizer. There are currently 1 tetra and 5 shrimp left and ammonia levels have been consistently under 0.25 ppm for 2 or 3 days.

thanks i think I understand now.

have a tank that is about 16 to 17 gallons, although the back half is blocked as it is a paludarium and will have a false bottom, so no animals are living back there. I have 10 shrimp in there although abt half of them are juvenile. They wont eat anything that I put in. I have only tried algae...

also, the one tetra that is likely going to die soon was still gasping at the top even though the waterfall has been functioning just fine. Im still not sure whats really goin on.

Update: 2 tetras dead, one almost dead, 2 missing. I got the water testing kit and tested it. It looks like its between 0.25 and 0.50 ppm of ammonia, which is very high, although is it really bad enough to kill 5 fish in 1 day? from what ive seen im in the danger zone but not so bad that it will...

just got the tetra safe start and put it in. Will give an update tomorrow. Also thinking about adding some floating plants to suck extra ammonia and other stuff from the water while also making the shrimp and fish more comfortable with the shade. Is that a good idea?

Thanks so much! The water from the tank was from the guy at the aquarium store. He said it would help. I dont have any other tanks so I guess ill go for the bottled bacteria. Thanks again!

Also, it looked like the fish that died lost a bit of its red color. Is there any chance this is a disease?

Thanks for responding aiken. Tank is 5 or 6 days old. have done one 15-20 percent water change. It is about 16-17 gallons total, but this is going to be a paludarium, so the back area will have a false bottom filled with leca(expanded clay balls) so about fifty percent of the tank actually holds...

Just tried to post this and it didnt work so i will try again. In a brand new tank, about 5 days old, I have 8 neon tetras and 10 neocaridina shrimp. last night when I went to check on the before bed, the tetras were all breathing very fast, some were breathing at the very top of the tank, and...