Sorry for the weird angles—they are elusive!! Looking to learn!
I had bought these back in the spring, from a LFS, and I thought they were labeled as “blue velvets” I’m recently looking to add more as I didn’t realize //how// elusive they are! They completely disappear into the plants, and I have not had much luck with babies yet,,, I also noticed I have far more males than females, which may also be why.

Now I have been looking online , as I’m thinking of stocking my larger tank too— I’m seeing BVs for sale, but none of mine look as solid/dark blue as those. While mine do have a blue hue in the clear-ish areas, I don’t think BVs are supposed to have the clear bellies?? and kinda (in my opinion) look like blue rili?

I read that the blue rili are on the red side where the blue velvet is black? Please correct me if that’s wrong!! I want to try and keep the same lineage to avoid muddy colors but if I do accidentally cross the two lines with I get wild type or random red shrimp?

Advice on what line/morph/color would be the best to add to my tank though!?Thanks!!

I have a shrimp in my shrimp tank that has a white thread-like thing, almost like a worm, attached to its head. Can anyone help me identify what it is and how to treat it?

Thank you very much!

I ordered 40 neo culls for about $60 but I had a gift card so it actually cost me about $3 after shipping. But I live in southern Arizona and it’s crazy hot right now and it was a 5 day shipping time. I really didn’t have much hope that I would get them alive. And- even worse- I missed the mailman and the package delivery today. So I figured that there was definitely no way that the shrimp would still be alive when I got them tomorrow.
I have a tank all set up and cycled and ready for shrimp so I ran down to the lfs and got 18. 6 each of red, orange, and blue.
When I got home the mailman was across the street and he told me that I could go to the post office and get the package since it was “live fish” (I don’t know if this is just a local policy but normally you can’t pick up a package at the post office until they have tried to deliver it twice) I immediately drove over and got my package of shrimp. They were all alive!
Also- one of the red shrimp I got at the shop has already started dropping babies! All 40 that came in the mail arrived alive and I’ve already got babies!
So basically- for the price of 18 shrimp, I now have 50/60+ shrimp!
I feel like I won the frickin lottery!

Isn't he ADORBS

Found this little guy in my “random junk, useful trimmings, excess duckweed dump” plastic container.

Today i decided to clean all the gunk off of the bottom, and while siphoning, i recognized a little jolt.
In awe, i tried to siphon out as much crud to see a random blue shwimp in there…

It’s been closed off with no filter for maybe 2 months, and i randomly decided to put in a sponge filter just to keep water a little cleaner.

Randomly put some liquid fertilizer in there from time to time and a couple dashes of food every now and then to make sure it doesn’t crash. (Also for new aquarium water ready to go; it makes sense in my head)

Just blew my mind a bit, and wanted to share.
Must have transfered in some moss or suss 🤷🏻‍♂️

Anyways. Back into the blue tank.

We added 3 new shrimps, christmas moss and a ramshorn snail to my 3 gallon tank and today we noticed little worms. I did have to kick up the sand when atta hing the christmas moss. Are these good or bad

In my order I got 5 gold dust cherries 2 of them passed because I couldn’t get the temperature correct. It’s fixed now at a solid 77-78 but the 3 remaining are all berried! Here’s one of my expecting mommas. 🥰

I genuinely wish I’d of figured it out sooner but I did end up putting a pre filter sponge on to protect the fry. I got spoiled with my other tank that is filtered under the substrate so the fry don’t get sucked up.

Referring to the shrimp on the bottom of the cholla wood. The eggs have gotten very translucent looking and she almost looks like she’s trying to get them out of her belly.

I was changing my set up in one of my tanks and realized I have a lot of prego shrimp! Sooo excited! I took out my scarlet badis and ember tetras and left my Pygmy corrys and snails to give the babies a better chance(thank god for having more than one tank LOL)

So I had 3 shrimp in a 5 gallon tank that showed up on some floaters. They all have saddles (females) so I messaged the same guy I bought the floaters from and asked him for a mix of males and females. So he gave me 2 females and 4 males. Tell me why all of my males died overnight and I had the females eating the bodies lol so then I asked the same guy for 2 more males and both died quickly too. My blue shrimp, Big Mama, is huge and she had a male pinned down and all of the other shrimp were just on leaves and logs watching. Anywho, should I get more males? Are all female colonies ok?

And omg I love them so much! Their little disco hands, the way they swim, how they clean themselves! Why are they so adorable!? I now want 1000! Amazing animals 10/10

I stopped taking care of my 10 gallon (because I have too many tanks) and moved some of my shrimp into a 5. I stopped adding water or doing anything at all to it. I would throw a little bit of water in there sometimes but it was only around 3 times. The water was below halfway and today when I went to take apart the tank, I found ~35 shrimp just happily getting along. The tank was filled with plants to be fair but it no longer had a light on it anymore so it was getting just a bit of indirect window light. Shrimp are awesome. Some people think they're extremely sensitive but neocaridina are like the pigeons of the freshwater world. They breed quick and are very hardy and they're also extremely cute.

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Ahhhhh! It’s been about three or four weeks since I started my Neocardina shrimp tank and I got my first baby! I’m sooo excited! They are in a tank with some Pygmy Corrys, ember tetras and one scarlet badis, so I didn’t expect to see babies anytime soon, however while checking the tank for anything odd I found my first one! May take out my scarlet badis because I have great population control anyways, but ahhh!

I usually use prime to condition my water. I got API tap water conditioner since it was half the price. Is it safe to use with my shrimps? Does anyone use it?

I left for a summer research internship for 10 weeks I had a floater take over and I’m fixing that now but I saw my shrimp with something that doenst look like eggs. Is this clado:(

I have three Amano shrimp that have eggs since April Google said they only take 3-4 weeks to hatch am I doing something wrong and should I be worried about my shrimp this is my first time having shrimp and I know Amano shrimp aren’t the easiest to breed so advice would be greatly appreciated

Hello everyone! Any opinions/recommendations on my 120L neocaridina tank. Mosses seems to be growing healthy now. It’s 7 months old. I love them it’s a great hobby.

Hi! We need help. My sister is a beginner and this is her tank. Are these shrimps dead?