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a-deed-without-a-name · 1 month

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can you tell us about your aquarium

This is the best ask I have ever received. I hope you know the gates of Heaven have opened for you and only you, Anon.

Short answer: this is it.

Long answer under the cut. Very long, 'cause it's my birthday weekend and my gift to myself is I'm gonna gush about my stupid tank.

This is the smallest tank I've had in years - a 3.6 gallon Fluval. It absolutely counts as a nano tank, which has been both a challenge and a relief.

(My last tank - which I had to get rid of years ago, the last time I moved - was a 40-gallon that mainly featured very dumb dojo loaches and destructively horny oranda goldfish. I miss them every single day but when I surrendered them to my local fish store, the 90-year-old proprietor told me very approvingly that it's very rare for orandas to breed and dojo loaches usually don't get as big as mine did, so that helped soothe the sting a little.)

This one's technically a betta tank, but I'm still split on if I'm ever gonna put a betta in it. The literature on how much room is humane is split and it's really the luck of the draw if your fish will tolerate the inverts or harass them to death.

For now, it's just neocaridina shrimp (mostly red rilis, although a lovely orange lad and a blue juvenile snuck in there and I'm looking to get a few more color morphs), bladder snails, a ramshorn named Guts, and plants. I did not actually buy any of the snails, which is a quintessential aquarium-owner experience.

I've been working on this tank for a few months now. It's my first heavily-planted one, and it went through a few stages.

First off: I fell for a carpet seed scam.

Yeah. I know. I should've done more research. On the plus side, I got very, very lucky and wound up with something that can actually grow immersed (some kind of hygrophila, I'm 99% sure). For now, at least, it's eating all my ammonia, so yay, and I'm watching it and my water parameters like a hawk to make sure I can go full teardown at the first sign of melting.

(If I were smart and hard-working, I'd've taken everything out and redone it all soon as I figured out what a colossal fuck-up I'd committed, but I am me, so we're waiting, watching, and taking baby steps towards un-FUBARing the tank.)

But the java moss and tiger lotus, at least, are real plants, and they're doing great.

Had a few issues with the neos, but they've stabilized.

And I just recently rescaped the entire tank! Including adding in some more plant variety and tearing out ~60% of the hygrophila (yes, I disposed of it safely, I'm not going to be the reason that shit winds up in the Colorado River).

The goal is eventually to remove all of it, but for now, what's left can stay; the animals like it and I don't want to stress them out anymore.

They seem to be doing great since the rescape; much more active now that the tank has some different environments for them to explore. They love their cobblestone path.

I've got a good male/female ratio on the neos, lots of wee baby bugs swimming around, and my girls keep getting knocked up!

Harlot.

(Ignore the tweezers. Long story. And the discoloration on the hygrophila; after rigorous water testing and pinching and poking the leaves a whole bunch, seems like its ugly ass just Looks Like That. So glad my dad bought those stupid seeds.)

And that's my aquarium. I've got a little bit of duckweed in there that's not growing as fast as I'd like, and my tiger lotus does not seem inclined to make lilypads any time soon, so I'm planning on getting some water spangles for aesthetics and also shrimp thrills.

I might post some more photos once the spangles are here and I've picked up a few more shrimp colors from my LFS - I don't want everyone to be brown in a few generations, but. Some more diversity would be cool, I think.

#aquarium #fish tank #shrimp #neocaridina #neo shrimp #planted tank

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miraviglioso · 9 days

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Giving the people what they want and by that I mean sharing a photo of one of the shrimps cleaning its little butt

#shrimps #shrimp #key speaks #neocaridina #neo shrimp #listen ive had shrimp for over a year now and this is the 1st time ive seen one exhibit grooming behaviors

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chipped-chimera · 3 months

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Finally got a fancy(tm) pic of my aquarium - think I figured out the solution to awful photos is just I have to do them at night because the hugeass window in my room directly adjacent ruins everything. Going to try and take a pic like this weekly to track growth!

Anyway it's looking close? Closeish? to being cycled so the question is: WHAT COLOUR SHRIMP

#kerytalk #fish nonsense #planted tank #aquablr #fishblr #cherry shrimp or neocaridina is what I'm looking for #I just don't think I'd like reds. Or yellow #also rip I found the underground shrimp trading groups (complicated) and went from not finding any Caridina to so many #DO NOT TEMPT ME! I KNOW THEY'RE MORE SENSITIVE #they look bomb af tho rip #I do prefer them over Neos #idk how close is close but ammonia is 0.2 nitrites 0.0 and nitrates 20ppm #been sitting at that for a hot minute tho so not sure what's happening #dosing with bacteria and a fertiliser (both seachem) daily #things I've read saying as long as I have nitrates it means something is being converted so yay? it's def not in our tap water I tested

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natalie-inkx · 1 year

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Decided to create my own addition to the Shrimps Is Bugs meme circling at the moment. I decided to go with a mantis shrimp! This design is also up on my Redbubble store! 🛍️🖤 https://www.redbubble.com/people/natalieinkxshop/shop

This was fun and a bit silly 😜 🦐🍤 Hope everyone has a good bank holiday weekend! Reel to come soon! 👀

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red-eft · 5 months

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just got authorized to put a shrimp tank in the science building lab. im so excited

#txt #college stuff #going to study shrimp behaviors. project for my animal behavior class #not 100% certain abt how it's gonna go tho bc i need to get things set up ASAP and it's a little hard to find neo shrimp around here #might have to settle for ghost/glass shrimp or a different animal entirely :/#if i can get neos though my sneaky secret plan is to take them all home and put them in my 20gal at the end of the year. unlimited shrimp #by that time i'll have it even more heavily planted so i won't have to worry abt any fish-shrimp predation 👍#also completely unrelated but i'm going to do research on spotted salamanders this semester as well :D

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somekindafairy · 25 days

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i really am just like that 4chan shrimp guy irl btw. like literally i have shrimp and i love them.

#i don't just have shrimp i have a 55 gallon tank with fish #but i do have shrimp (yellow neos) and i love them so much #i had a whole group of babies recently #theyre up in a moss patch protected from the fish #and they were so so tiny #and watching them get bigger and slowly explore farther and farther 😭#makes me so emotional #love is real and its stored in the shrimp

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goleb · 1 year

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C. barnesi

#DHMIS #DHMIS Roy #Roy Gribbleston #Don't Hug Me I'm Scared #Dont Hug Me Im Scared #Roy #Mermay #mermaid #The Arts Parable #Roy Gribbleston 🤝 australian box jellyfish (me bringing them up in every conversation regardless of actual topic)#What can I say I like my men like I like my jellyfish... lethal <3 #The annual contribution to my DHMIS Mermaid AU <3 #it's funnier when you're aware jellyfish Roy has actually been around for years I just never drew anything postable with him :P #I need everyone to know I take my mermaid AU very seriously and handpick the fish-half for everyone involved through proper research #I did heavily consider the Gribblestons being C. capillata but those are just not deadly enough... 😎#they do have the ability to disguise / shapeshift into other fish though so I can draw whatever I want!!#Also fun fact because I don't plan on drawing them anytime soon - the neo-DHMIS twins of this AU are brine shrimp

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endawn · 1 month

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got distracted by my scrimpies

#❪ ⋅ ✹ ⋆ —┊ ❛ ooc. ❜ ❫#ask to tag //#( my shrimp + chili rasbora tank in my room ahhh )#( have red and yellow neo shrimp )#( kind of interested if them breeding would make Green )#( wait no that’s orange )#( hsjshd my ketchup and mustard shrimp )

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shinkaishoujo103 · 3 months

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eats you

damn....gets eaten i guess......

#i am but fried shrimp now. i cannot resist #are you sure though. what if i give you a stomach ache #saku mail #from neo #/ocean

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mod2amaryllis · 1 year

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my planaria treatment order is LATE

#tank stuff is kind of on hold until i can start it....#i have so much stuff I'm planning tho!!#rescapes on the yellow neo shrimp tank cuz i suspect maybe planaria in there too.... the adults are healthy but there's no #babies after months #rescape on bug's tank which I'm crazy excited for!!! making a very dark scape so she'll stick out #but all that requires a lot of music chairs so i need the planaria infected tank to be cleared #what i could maybe do.... is put the shrimp in that tank.... since no planaria is shrimp safe....hmmmmmmmm #m2a #fish tag

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flattest-twewy-character · 1 year

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#shrimp twewy #lord tomonami #round 1b #poll #neo twewy #neo the world ends with you #twewy #the world ends with you

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dryshr1mp · 1 year

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I haven’t posted in a bajillion years but i finally drew the neo 3 from this post :^)

Still don’t have a name for him but he is 100% one of those teammates that tries to use a support weapon like a slayer

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #shrimp originals #neo 3 #neo 3 oc #art #splatoon oc #his colours r the super famicon thats why his takaroka vintage is a diff colour #this took me like 3 days bc i NEVER do rendered art #btw can you tell i straight up just put my docs on my table when i was drawing the feets

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natalie-inkx · 1 year

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Process TikTok

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marimojo · 1 year

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Thought I had vaguely figured out the basics of my shrimps genetics: a red rili + blue velvet resulted in wild color shrimp with some form of recessive genes, so the offspring from that group would probably be a mix of wild colors and slightly blue/red guys.

Was in the process of moving this second generation from the 10g to the shrimp tank and things seemed to go along with my predictions. Then lo and behold, I had this surprise! Not sure what this coloration is called but I really love it.

#their grandma(red rili) was from petco where they had a lot of different neos together #so I’m sure there’s quite a lot of different genetics up that line #fishblr #cherry shrimp #neocaridina davidi #my tanks #5g #photo

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claw00 · 1 year

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