Hydra sting baby shrimp. Planaria may hunt shrimp. Mosquito larvae compete for food. I cover removal methods: dewormers (with warnings), traps, and lowering pH to kill hydra without hurting your live stock.
Freshwater limpets (genus Acroluxus) are common visitors in our tanks. Some people absolutely hate these tiny critters with a huge passion while others do not mind having them as additional clean up crew or even live food. Freshwater limpets are harmless scavengers that help freshwater
Those tiny white threads wriggling in your substrate or on the glass? Detritus worms. They are 100% harmless to shrimp, fish, and snails — just ugly. They only explode in numbers when you overfeed, skip water changes, or let mulm pile up. Here’s what they
Scuds (or side-swimmers) are small shrimp-like invertebrates belonging to the family Gammaridae. The choice of keeping or eradicating them in shrimp, fish, or planted tanks has been a popular controversial topic on online forums, and Facebook groups over the years. On the one hand, these
Unfortunately, shrimp keeping hobby is not always sunshine and rainbows. So, today I am going to continue my series of articles on dwarf shrimp diseases and parasites. This time it is a relatively new problem that came to use from the Asia aquaculture ponds –
Bladder snails (Physa acuta) are arguably the most well-known example of invasive freshwater snails. The aquarium trade, and the increasing popularity of ornamental animals and plants is the main reason for the spread of this species in the hobby. Bladder snails are hermaphrodites, prolific breeders
Today I am going to talk about how to remove snails from a shrimp tank. If you have been reading my articles before (for example, “Benefits of Snails for a Shrimp Aquarium” or “Malaysian Trumpet Snails – Pros and Cons for Shrimp Tank”) you would
Dragonflies and damselflies have been here for over 300 million years (even before the dinosaurs even existed!). About 3012 species of dragonflies only were known in 2010. They come in many shapes and sizes but they are all predatory. These are like the sharks of