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...algae and other flora and fauna. They will accept all types of high quality meaty foods including mysis shrimp, brine shrimp and shellfish but their diet should be mainly based on vegetable matter. ...
... have been reading up on the use of live rock, and the pesky critters that can come with it (i.e., Mantis Shrimp, etc.). How likely is it for such things to come with the live rock? I will be buying m...
...enos Aries Tetra x2 Neon Tetra x5 Spotted Pictus Cat Dwarf African Frog x2 Molly x2 Betta (female) Bamboo Shrimp Freshwater Clams x4 Thanks for your help, - Glen Dady...
...innow. i change 6 litres of water every friday. they are all quite happy. but last week i introduced 20 shrimp. the shrimp have been steadily dying off one by one; and now i only have one left. sugg...
...gh w/c's. At free-swimming stage ( day 5 -7) you begin feeding them the BBS (newly hatched baby brine shrimp). You'll have to either hatch these yourself..or use frozen BBS...personally hatching i...
Question. I am diving into raising an anemone now and I am feeding it brine shrimp which is fine. But its hard to feed the anemone the shrimp because by the time I get it down to him, it melts and bre
I read on so many websites that ghost shrimp (aka glass shrimp, grass shrimp, et cetera) don't eat the 'waste products' of other fish but I have personally seen mine do so (although I have the worst l
I was reading everywhere that live Baby Brime Shrimp (BBS) is best food for fry, due to it being small enough for fry and still having the york sac. It also says adult Brime Shrimps are not as nutr
Hi, Whil at my Not So LFS I was looking in the female betta tanks and they have amoured shrimp in them, I was just curious about any information anyone could supply. Such as: what do they eat? wha
...aquarium 11 cardinal tetras, 2 clown loaches, 4 octoclinus catfish and recently I put in 4 Japonica Amano shrimp. Two of the shrimp have died and I don't know why. My water parameters are as follows...
...o Zebra fish (To Cycle the tank) Eventual additional population: 10 White Clouds, 20 Neon Tetras, 5 Ghost Shrimp, 1 Male Beta and 2 alga eaters (I am still studying the alga eaters at this time) Tha...
...months new). I already knew that, but he was very helpful none the less. He pointed me to some peppermint shrimp and some snails. I already had some in my tank, figured they could help. It isn't like ...
...k are as follows... One single polyp (came with LR), a cluster (?) of green mushroom corals, a peppermint shrimp, about 5 blue leg crabs (small) and a larger one that looks like the blue leg crabs, bu...
...out 2 to 3 months. Ive had normal growths of green algae in the other two, but maintenence and snails and shrimps keep it all under control. However, in our tank upstairs there was a small (2cm) spo...
...I saw him mouthing at a thermometer once or twice, but mainly he just prefers to beg for flakes, or brine shrimp. My question is, wtf are the turbo snails dying so easily, and should I perhaps try aga...
A while back, I discovered a way to hatch brine shrimp without a bunch of used pop bottles turned upside down. For a hobbyist, raising a batch or two of egg laying fry doesn't require a large hatchery
...Black Shark 2 pristella tetras 1 otocinclus catfish 2 long finned serpae tetras 6 cardinal tetras 3 ghost shrimp I the past two weeks 3 cardinal tetras and 2 ghost shrimp have disappeared? Any ideas...
... list of compatible fishes. If any includes Tomato Clown, Anemone, Sea Apple, Cucumber, fire & boxing shrimps which I've been told all are compatible (if one of each acquired)...
...get FAT every night and I meen big buldging belly. I don't think I'm overfeeding I give them some sinking shrimp pellets every 2-3 days and flake 2x a day for other fish, The flake I put just enoughf ...
...rs to hide under one of the cave structures to do so. I've begun allowing his betta bits and frozen brine shrimp to soak till they will stay on the bottom, and depositing them under his favorite cave ...
...s at the LFS doing figure-eights, the tank FULL of cardinal tetras (what a beautiful sight), or the amano shrimp sitting on the edge of a piece of drift wood, catching bits of food with it's 'hands' a...
I had a tank set up for quite a while with only a cleaner shrimp and a small percula clown fish. I got a yellow tang the other day, and now the cleaner shrimp is gone. I didnt see any sign that he g
... in the tank with the live rock, and in short order, it will find and eat a lot of unwanted stuff, mantis shrimp, etc. Since I've never seen an Octopus in my city, are there any other creatures, i.e. ...
...ts again. I am certain he will come out at feeeding time again. Diet is peas 1 to 2 times a week, brine shrimp 2 to 3 times a week, tubifex worms 1 - 2 times a week, and the standard goldfish food t...
Ok...I'm new. Got a fire shrimp..red and white...got a couple of clowns...spike boys..(2 cm spikes coming out of their backs, orange & beige) got some crabs, small and two...well one... well 3/5 of on
...rdinal Tetras (6) Gold Tetras (6) German Blue Rams (3) - is 3 a bad number? Would 4 be better? Or 2? Ghostshrimp (15) - is that an ok number for a 40g tank?? More?? Less?? Wouldn't turn into lunch for...
... simple. I have a two month old 29G tank with about 30 lbs. of live rock. I have two damsels, a cleaner shrimp, a scooter blenny, five small snails, and two feather dusters. They all seem to be doin...
...want to give it a 'boost' of needed). I have bee considering adding either a dwarf crayfish, some glass shrimp, and even fresh water clams (but I have been talked out of that in my previous posts). ...
I think Cherry Shrimp are really neat, and have tried keeping three of them in my tank over the past couple of months or so. Every time, however, they've simply vanished after several days. I've had a
...g). They're doing quite well, though the betta will still only eat frozen 'carnivore foods' such as brine shrimp, etc. I need something that'll eat all this flake and dehydrated stuff I bought while t...
...e a lot of them. I can't try butterfly fish because I have multiple corals. I was going to try peppermint shrimp. But I have a hawkfish I heard they eat the shrimp. I heard of joe's juice not sure of ...
...ess cycle, so it's all a bit of an experiment because I couldn't find ammonia, so I popped in a couple of shrimp from the local deli counter. I've got ammonia readings of 0.5 today. I figured safe for...
...t Starfish 1 Pink Tip Condy Anenome 2 Feather Dusters 1 Bi Color Pseudochromis 1 Yellow Tang 1 Fire/Blood Shrimp And of course the 2 Chromis that are left. Anyone have any thoughts as to who's grabb...
I bought several vials of BS Eggs about 6 months ago. I occassionally mix a small batch. The last 3 batches have had little/no yield. I'm using the same recipe for the water (thanks Marc). Is ther
My daughter has a small tank with just a Betta and a few neons in it. Recently she bought 2 crabs and 3 shrimp like things. the fish shop said the shrimps came from Thailand. They are a sort of blue/g
... the other side. Once they are in the tank the barbs largely ignore them. I'm gonna try to add some ghost shrimp soon. I hope my new trick works....
...d placed it in another 30 gallon tank inside a floating guppy breeding box.... As I took a close look she shrimp is in a way reddish than others and it is now standing ok in the floating chamber.... N...
I have 2 pairs of Amano shrimp. The females (AFAIK) periodically get a bunch of 'stuff' under their flaps in the back of their body. I assume these to be eggs. I have had them about 2 years and have
I have a 10 gallon tank with two clown fish, several snails, 5 hermit crabs, and a cleaner shrimp. One of the fish has started lying motionless on the bottom in the corner. If someone comes near the t
...eauty (small) 1 bi-color angel (small) 12 Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crab 15 Banded Trochus Snail 3 Peppermint Shrimp...
I am the proud father of some (only 2 spit out so far) baby bangii - have fed them baby brine shrimp, seem in good health - my question - how long before I can put them in the main tank - their tank m
Anyone have any plans for an 'in tank' brine shrimp hatchery? Can it be done or is the salinity of our reefs too low for these critters to hatch? If so, any online diagrams?
.... He is still swimming around ok, no clamped fins and no fading color. He actually did eat a little brine shrimp tonight (I just came back from a week vacation and he was fine before I left). The symt...
Just got a butterfly and I am looking for a flake food equivalent for butterfly fish. I hate making brine shrimp. Any help is appreciated
...e tank inhabited with a pair of anemonefishes like maroon clownfish - is there a room for an anemone crab/shrimp there ? Will the fish treat crab/shrimp as a competition for the anemone and cause conf...
...) Whiptail catfish (Rineloricaria lanceolata) yo yo /pakistani loach (Botia lohachata) 3 Non-fish Ghost Shrimp African Dwarf Frogs Red Ramshorn snails Mystery Snails Any comments on the compatibil...
I have a cleaner ship that molts once a month is that normal? The thing is getting hugh. The antenna? (not sure what it is called)is almost 11'-12' across. Will this thing be like the fish out of wate
...kled and red-striped goby fish, found in Guam's waters, that somehow lives in partnership with a snapping shrimp at its tail. While the goby stands sentinel, the shrimps digs a burrow that both use fo...
Is this type of shrimp suitable for a reef tank? The book says 'yes' but many comments on the Web say 'no'. Comments from experience appreciated.
... took to the anemone pretty much straight away. Other than these, we have a few other fish, three cleaner shrimp and a few hardy soft corels (from the 'good for beginners' list). Anemone looks healt...

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