I’ve finally got my tank into a stable condition with my shrimp and haven’t noticed any dead ones in months now, which is great news, but my pH is slowly starting to rise. have a 5 gallon tank with nothing but plants, snails and neocaridinas. before I continue here are my current tank parameters:

ammonia 0 nitrate 20 ppm nitrite 0 ppm GH ~150-200 ppm chlorine 0 ppm KH ~180 ppm pH ~8-8.2 pH

Which is pretty good but what I noticed is the pH level is starting to get quite alkaline. I know neo’s prefer slightly alkaline water but it’s gradually increasing, I think my last test a few months ago was closer to 7.9-8ish, which isn’t a very rapid increase but still an increase. My question is what should I do about this? I don’t want to very rapidly change the pH levels because I know that shrimp prefer stable, non fluctuating water parameters more than anything, but I’d like to nip the problem in the bud. What can I use to stable it out around the 7.8-8 pH level?

I got a berried shrimp late January. By late February 20 of these now juveniles were born. She got eggo again in mid March or so and gave birth earlier this week. She had around 50 children in 2 months!!

1, 2, and 3: pics of the juveniles ( on 3 there is a newborn barelt in focus). 4: mom with juveniles.

5, 6: newborns.

Grateful for our wholesale partners 🙏🏻

They're not fully grown but I need to know. They might be my only male.

I noticed a few expecting mothers at feeding time this morning.

Just bought a small sponge filter for my 12L shrimp tank. Can't find a suitably small pump online (preferably something like an air pump I can hang outside the tank). Any recommendations please??

My mum accidentally took home a baby shrimp from the beach(in UK). Does anyone know what type of shrimp this is and what to feed it and how to keep it alive?

It looks soo good but idk where to put the sponge filter 😭😭

Finally cycled my tank again after having to restart following a copper plant fertiliser incident... New occupants have just been added 🥰

Just got this guy a few days ago, today I noticed some white around his nose and I turned away for a second and most of it was gone. However there are some white dots on his side, is this scut or something, or just harmless coloration I hadn’t noticed before?

Hi everyone ! This is my very first message on Reddit and first tank ever (10 gallon) ! Inside I’m got 6 green neon, 2 snails (clithon) and 5 yellow shrimps, next week will get a Betta 🫡 (hope he will not eat everyone…)

So, I wanna ask y’all, is my shrimp pregnant or just eat to much 😂? Thank you y’all.

A lil brekky ft. Mozzarella the snail 🐌

The other day Big Momma refused Harold's advances and smacked him right in the face. Today I was trying to record her so I could zoom in and see if she had some eggs, not noticing Harold creeping up in the background. He kicked her in the rear and swam away! Shomp Opera in full effect.

Over the last three days I’ve lost 4 shrimp, 2 cherries and 1 amano. I’ve done a water test and everything looks perfect. I have about 40 baby shrimp in there too and they seem unaffected up to now. I haven’t done anything to the tank at all, apart from a water top up, which I’ve been doing the same way for months and had no problems! It’s a shrimp only tank, 36l, live plants and natural substrate. I have noticed a slight increase in algae since we’ve been having sunnier weather but have since been closing the blinds so that the tank isn’t in direct sunlight at all. I’ve turned the heater down to 24C incase it was a temperature thing but I’m still losing shrimp! Anyone have any ideas about what could be going on? I’m fairly new to keeping shrimp.

some quick snaps of my shrimp

quick snaps of some of my shrimp

I know, I know.. people ask this often and the search bar is great.. but the ones I’ve seen already have a start somewhere.

I recently discovered how cute shrimp are as pets and would love to start a tank. Looking at cherry or neo as I have axies and in the future would love to get a very laaaarge tank to give the shrimp enough hiding space. I’ve heard a few make it work. But for now, looking to tank them on their own and maybe just toss a few in for snacks at times (since I know living temps are different) ): mean, I know… life cycle man.

Was wondering if anyone has a moment if they could give me a basic run down of what I need, best size tank, filter? Air? What plants do they like? Substrate? Should I give them any tank mates? Can you put more than one kind of shrimp together? Anything I should know before starting out?

I’ve seen some amazing shrimp homes here so I feel this is better than conflicting info on Google without anyone to chime in.

Thanks in advance! (:

I have my Amanos, two to be exact one female as it seems and one male, for less than 24 hours in and now I see what people said about these little God beasts!

How can I keep them satisfied, entertained so they don't plot an arise and an escape?

Saw 2 berried shrimp, I just hope they doesn’t end up being clear coloured, since I got a few lower grade males