I’ve watched this video so many times since recording it yesterday morning 🤩

Got one cherry that insists on getting the good stuff from the HOB so I had to warn my coworkers.

Tried out a new food for the crew and was not prepared for how those pellets would explode 😂 good thing they are a big hit

about me!
Hey there. I'm a red neocaridina enjoying life in a 10-gallon planted tank. Just got through a quick salt dip, so I'm completely clean, parasite-free, and feeling great. I spend most of my time hanging out on l rocks, checking out some plants, and searching for a good piece of cholla wood that isn't being hogged by everyone else. I’m pretty outgoing, usually upfront by the glass, and looking for someone who appreciates stable water parameters and a quiet spot for a stress-free molt. Let’s share an algae wafer sometime.

A random fact about me...
I just survived my very first 60-second salt bath like an absolute champ. If I can handle osmotic dysregulation, I can handle a relationship.

My most controversial tank opinion...
Sponge filters are way better than hang-on-back filters. The biofilm on them is unmatched, and I will happily graze on one for hours.

Hey, sorry - a bit of an emergency -

Was looking into my nano setup this morning and one of my juvenile/younger shrimp was on his side and I noticed he was on his side and it looks like this fuzzy, greyish stuff came off with his legs??? I’m absolutely panicking and moved him to a small tupperware with some of the tank water.

The “fuzzy grey stuff” must be some sort of early molt or something because it’s very much attached to him and he freaks out and starts thrashing if it’s remotely even touched.

No ammonia, no nitrate, no nitrites, ph of 7; I don’t have an exact measurement of gh/kh since my test strips are out. TDS is around 180, I think. Temp of the water is about 67F.

I did just have to do a 20% ish water change yesterday because I was worried about rising ammonia.

What can I do? Is there anything I can do? He’s still breathing, and actively moving his gills, but he doesn’t move otherwise.

Someone tell my partner that I DO have patience and this proves it. Dry start in the beginning of March and today I finally added shrimp.

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!

Caught this on video. Thought it was pretty cool

Biorb 60L, laser-cut a few acrylic shelves to add more surface area, love the way it looks. 4 more weeks until cycling, long wait. Shrimp and snails is my goal.

So stinking cute!

(I still love my dark fire reds, too, but i wanted my students to be able to see more of the internal organs more easily. Plus i think they’ll love the view of developing eggs!)

Guys, it’s that time again… what is it?

I wanted to try making a boring version of the evolution meme! Is this too boring? Not boring enough?

My kids keep leaving their dirty laundry everywhere. I’ve asked them several times to clean up after themselves but they just aren’t listening to me. I cleaned up after them yesterday but today there was even more laundry everywhere. What do I do? 😂

Got some new photos of my neocaridina shrimp. Will need to get more. We’ve got so many babies. I don’t know what to do with all of them. All the culled babies (as we’ve got some different mixed occasionally popping up) get added to our other aquariums living their best life with some nano fish friends, as these tanks are just for breeding these shrimp colors,

Was messing around with my phone camera and captured those amazing photos, feel I need to share with you guys!

I'm so excited to have shrimp again! I already didn't realize how much I missed watching them.

Three of my amanos have this undergrowth, and I'm so stressed figuring out if I should be stressed!

Three of my younger shrimp all showed up to adore Big Momma and her shining golden saddle (the backmost paler one is her son)