Greetings from Auburn

I am new to this. I have tons of questions, and hopefully sometimes answers to yours.

Learning so much already.

 

Glad to have you here.

Welcome!

 Shrimp has been a huge topic on here lately, its seems to be the next big thing.

Welcome!  We've got a few peeps on here that hopped on the shrimp wagon, glad to have you aboard

madness wrote:Shrimp has been a huge topic on here lately, its seems to be the next big thing.

Hop on that wagon Madness!!!

Thank you all for the warm welcomes...this should be a fun adventure...LOL

 

LJ, that's the best pic posted yet!!

Thank you all again...such nice ppl here.

Looking forward to starting shrimp tanks...and if I have questions I hope you all will chime in...

I know I will be looking for RCS to start, and possibly some blue pearl and such...I want to get into the exotic looking colors, so I am reading all I can about everything...even the brackish water for larvae too...still working on that...

I do plan on setting up a nice shrimp area in my garage temperarily, so hope things work there...

Also planning a trip to Seattle to check out the stores there...crossing fingers I find some shrimp that HAVE to come home with me...

I got the shrimp bug on here also. My 2.5 gal shrimp tank is about 4 months old now. Just added 2 cherry to it yesterday.

 

welcome aboard

Welcome....

madness wrote: Shrimp has been a huge topic on here lately, its seems to be the next big thing.

I've tried raising shrimp & found out my Cichlids love them too!

Welcome, I am really pretty new too, so we will be learning a lot together

LuminousAphid wrote:Welcome, I am really pretty new too, so we will be learning a lot together

Welcome...I am so excited to start with the shrimp...they are so cool...

WAshrimp wrote:

LuminousAphid wrote:Welcome, I am really pretty new too, so we will be learning a lot together

Welcome...I am so excited to start with the shrimp...they are so cool...

Yeah, I agree. Right now I only have Amano shrimp in my 20 gallon, for cleaning up algae and other waste (and they are super good at it), and then about 7 RCS in my 10 gallon tank, hopefully soon to have more of those.

Once you are able to (I think you're supposed to be a member for 10 days first), you should post on the "for sale" section and see if anyone has some good starter shrimp. RCS have been easy so far, I had a couple amano die but I think that was due to low PH issues

That's one good bit of advice, if you are planning on keeping shrimp, make sure your PH is at least above 7. If it's acidic, the water will literally eat away at their shells until they die. I think that's what happened to the first 2 amano which died

LuminousAphid wrote:
That's one good bit of advice, if you are planning on keeping shrimp, make sure your PH is at least above 7. If it's acidic, the water will literally eat away at their shells until they die. I think that's what happened to the first 2 amano which died

That's not exactly the case. Certain species of shrimp, especially caridina cf. cantonensis (CRS, CBS, etc.), prefer slightly acidic water (above 6, below 7). Neocaridina can live in water in the mid to upper 6 PH range as well. I have a healthy, breeding population of RCS in a 3g tank with amazonia 2 substrate and a PH of 6.5. The important thing is to make sure your PH is stable. Keeping PH stable below 7 is a bit trickier than keeping it stable above 7 since it usually means keeping the buffering capacity of your water (KH - carbonate hardness) fairly low. This makes a tank more susceptible to PH crashing and/or swinging. PH swings are very stressful to aquaria, but a low PH in and of itself is not necessarily a problem as long as it's stable.

That said, RCS (neocaridina heteropoda) thrive in water with a PH above 7, in my experience. I like to keep the PH of most of my tanks in the mid 7s to avoid swings. The 3g is low because I got lazy and quit supplementing it. Thankfully the shrimp don't seem to mind.

Welcome aboard!