Panacur and Flubenol are medicaments used for de-worming cats, dogs and other pets. Due to the lack of missing drugs for fish tanks, shrimp keepers use them to get rid of planaria. Planaria are limped worms with triangular heading and can harm shrimp and their offspring. If your shrimplets always disappear ...

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

Lucky you if you are getting new shrimp! Anything new is always exciting! But we’ve all been bitten by the shrimp bug, and that is great. It doesn’t mean that we should be too hasty about putting our new shrimp in their new tanks though. Shrimp bought at the store or sent via (express) courier service need to be acclimated slowly and carefully to their new environment. The transport is stressful to them even if they are well packed in a styrofoam box and breathing bags.

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If your shrimp has white stuff growing on the rostrum, head or legs this might be parasites or fungal. It is important that you are sure about the diagnosis because the cure differs. Have a closer look ...

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

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 ...

The variety and manifestation of Dwarf shrimp diseases remain unexplored. Most of the information we have on shrimp maladies comes from research on aquacultured crustaceens, such as freshwater shrimp macrobrachium rosenbergii, crayfish, lobster and others. Another source of knowledge is gathered from studies on fish and especially the keeping of Koi.

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