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Hello, I am Bryan. I am a Bay Area native and I enjoy fish keeping as a hobby. I want to share and educate people about my hobby. In my tank, I am raising and breeding neocaridina and caridina shrimp. These shrimp are kept with a few other peaceful tank mates. The neocaridina species color… Read more

Live plants are not only good for the organisms in the tank, but are also a key part of shrimp keeping. The plants in your aquarium serve more than just decorative purposes in a shrimp keeper’s tank. Many times plants provide cover for baby shrimp or shrimplets during the first few days after they are… Read more

http://www.tfhmagazine.com/freshwater/feature-articles/fantastic-freshwater-inverts.htm This feature article is from Tropical Fish Magazine and is about invertebrates in your fresh water fish tanks. The article covers inverts raging from crabs to shrimp and to crayfish. The article not only includes information about these creatures but also information about setting up tanks for them. The article includes subsections about the… Read more

Cull shrimp is as important as keeping them alive. Culling is a term we use in the aquarist world in which we get rid of by either killing off or moving unwanted traits from the gene pools of the organisms we breed. For shrimp and snails we cull for mostly for color. I cull my… Read more