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Dwarf shrimp are fragile creatures. After spending time either in shipping or traveling home from a fish shop your shrimp ...

In nature Amano’s live in coastal area in freshwater lakes. The lakes where they live have a connection with the sea trough ...

Hi guys I have recently successfully raised Amanos cheaply and on my windowsil and so as so many people ask I thought I ...

Overview:

During the course of my experience keeping inverts, there was a time when i used to keep dwarf ...

• Treat shrimp as other animals with love and respect.
• Gather as much knowledge as possible on shrimp and share it with

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In this article I will cover the basic principles of how to use a Hamburger Mattenfilter (HMF). HMF filters are essentially ...

Overview:

In this article i will cover the Different Types of Filtration and their purpose and some most ...

The original grading guide for Black Tiger Shrimp was done by George Morzinek (Germany). Here is the ranking for Black Tiger ...

This article is written in order to help easy indentify some of the common bugs and worms in our shrimp/fish tanks with ...

How can you prevent introducing snails, bugs, worms and algae in your tank?

Method 1: The Importance of ...

Breeding Caridina multidentata / Caridina japonica

by Dmitriy Migay (Ukraine), used by kind of permission ...

In 1821, J. T. Seebeck (1770-1831) discovered that different metals junctions will develop a small voltage potential when ...

This is a Crystal Red Shrimp Grading Guide.

Grade SSS (body is white and/or has special head features) ...

Sexing of crystal red shrimps (CRS) can be done only at least three months old with confidence. At small, both sexes look ...

This table shows the most important Crystal Red Features with photos; in detail: colorations and patterns of head, chin, ...

I just went through a bacterial infection a couple of weeks ago with Orange Eye Blue Tigers (OEBTs). I was able to knock ...

It was many years ago when I had my last tank and by today’s standards many forum member would recoil in horror at first ...

For this follow on piece rather than take a day by day approach, I thought I would go by significant events or activities ...

This is the first installment of The Making of Mini Chiller, yes, a chiller, not a cooler. The purpose of this chiller ...

Water from tank will go into the reservoir, brush through Cold Fin and mix with colder water inside there, then go out ...

This article should show you how to build an effective and safe sponge filter for your shrimp tank. It's relatively cheap and easy to build in approximately 20 minutes. You need these things to build the filter:

• a sharp knife and a small scissors
• a piece of plastic

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Just want to share something I had posted sometime ago on my home country's forum.

Had been sorting shrimps ...

I have been keeping CRS for almost a year now and because I live in Malaysia, the weather here is very warm. Many of us ...

This article should show a list of easy to keep plants for a low maintenance shrimp tank. So these plants do not need artificial CO2 to grow, although most of them would of ...

This arcticle explains how to breed Red Nose Shrimp larvae in brackish water.

Equipment List:

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Overview
Most shrimp breeders (especially new ones) are afraid to ship their shrimps to other states or places. And ...

Please note, this article refers to shrimps of the genuses Caridina and Neocaridina. I don’t know if this technique works for all high order shrimps of these genuses but it will work at least for ...

This guide is for dwarf shrimps like Caridina or Neocaridina species, not for agressive species like bigger Macrobrachium. It´s just a short listing of important things to know for beginners of shrimp keeping.

Origin:
Shrimps can be found all over the world. The available species in your local fish shop are often from Southeast Asia.

Size:
Most dwarf shrimps are between 2-5 cm or 0.8-2 inches long.

Behavior:
Caridina, Neocaridina and similar species are generally peaceful. ...

Tank Size

- 1ft and above sized tanks are recommended. Of course, the larger your tank, the more shrimps ...

Remarks:
Water paramter for the first tank fillment are: pH- 7.4, 245 ppm, GH ~10, KH ~ 5.

Discussion: ...

Cycling a tank refers to the build up of essential beneficial bacteria in filter and tank, which break down wastes to non-toxics. ...

For about close to 4 years now I have been into Nature Style Aquariums and during the course of my learning I came across ...

Water chemistry is one of the most misunderstood areas of shrimp-keeping, especially when it comes the pH, GH/KH, and ...