Who or where do I ask this shrimp question?
July 1, 2022 8:24 PM Subscribe
My Amano shrimp lady has been carrying a huge load of black sad sort-of-gross eggs around for months. I'm pretty sure they're not going to hatch and she's not going to drop them. Where do I even start to find out what to do?
All I can find are articles on removing shrimp eggs from dead shrimp -- definitely not the problem here. I mean, she's swimming, eating, etc., and I figured I could just wait and ... somehow ... the eggs would go away, but that's not happening.
She's just carrying around this mass of very black eggs and has been since, I don't know, March? February? It's disturbing, and surely it's not healthy for her.
The eggs are only supposed to be carried for 5-7 weeks before hatching. I don't expect (or really want) a bunch of baby shrimp; the whole reason I got Amanos was to avoid that.
There are no other fish in the tank. Lots of plants. Fresh water.
I don't know where to look for answers, even. Help?
All I can find are articles on removing shrimp eggs from dead shrimp -- definitely not the problem here. I mean, she's swimming, eating, etc., and I figured I could just wait and ... somehow ... the eggs would go away, but that's not happening.
She's just carrying around this mass of very black eggs and has been since, I don't know, March? February? It's disturbing, and surely it's not healthy for her.
The eggs are only supposed to be carried for 5-7 weeks before hatching. I don't expect (or really want) a bunch of baby shrimp; the whole reason I got Amanos was to avoid that.
There are no other fish in the tank. Lots of plants. Fresh water.
I don't know where to look for answers, even. Help?
I’m now very invested in what happens with your shrimp, please keep us posted!
posted by cakelite at 11:49 PM on July 1, 2022 [14 favorites]
posted by cakelite at 11:49 PM on July 1, 2022 [14 favorites]
Response by poster: Well, so far I've been rejected/banned from joining The Planted Tank's shrimp forum as "spam".
The Reddit group is lovely to look at, but so far I'm just seeing a lot of pictures of peoples' shrimp tanks -- will probably try posting there if things don't otherwise work out.
I also, why not, left a message on the fish store's voice mail.
posted by amtho at 9:21 AM on July 2, 2022
The Reddit group is lovely to look at, but so far I'm just seeing a lot of pictures of peoples' shrimp tanks -- will probably try posting there if things don't otherwise work out.
I also, why not, left a message on the fish store's voice mail.
posted by amtho at 9:21 AM on July 2, 2022
Best answer: You aren’t going to get baby shrimp, or at least not ones that live and grow. You may know this already, but Amano shrimp hatchlings require very specific salinity to survive.
And yeah, I’d post to r/shrimptank with the best photos you can manage. For this kind of stuff, they tend to be much better and have more traffic (and sometimes more accurate, up to date info) than the oldschool forums like Planted Tank. The shrimp diagnoses posts just never get popular enough to show up if you cruise into the forum and end up seeing, forex, top posts over the past month. The pictures of pretty tanks do. I say this as somebody who spent hours a week going through that subreddit during pandemic.
posted by joyceanmachine at 2:16 PM on July 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
And yeah, I’d post to r/shrimptank with the best photos you can manage. For this kind of stuff, they tend to be much better and have more traffic (and sometimes more accurate, up to date info) than the oldschool forums like Planted Tank. The shrimp diagnoses posts just never get popular enough to show up if you cruise into the forum and end up seeing, forex, top posts over the past month. The pictures of pretty tanks do. I say this as somebody who spent hours a week going through that subreddit during pandemic.
posted by joyceanmachine at 2:16 PM on July 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
Best answer: R/aquariums might be a better place to query; I'm a lurker there, but do frequently see questions about shrimps. Hope you'd get a better reception there!
posted by seapig at 1:04 AM on July 3, 2022
posted by seapig at 1:04 AM on July 3, 2022
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posted by lesser weasel at 9:05 PM on July 1, 2022 [5 favorites]