Want.

I'm hoping they'll breed Shrimp for everyone!

If my vision were a little worse, I'd say your icon was throwing up free shrimp, haha.

I keep going back and staring at the tank every now and then today to stare at them

these little shrimpies are so cute! really pretty too! I just recently started with my own little colony of ghost shrimp(one is pregnant!). Though i'm unsure what's the best way to clean my tank, now that i have shrimps and a mystery snail. I want to eventually add the grass to the cage, but i would love to know, how do you clean your tank without disturbing the plants growth as well as keeping the bottom feeders happy.

Oh man. Cleaning shrimp tanks can be a little tricky, especially if you have babies. Normally in any other fish tank, I'd just use a regular large tube to siphon out water and suck up waste from the bottom. But in my little shrimp tanks (especially tanks with babies), I often just gently mix up the stuff at the bottom with a toothbrush or other small tool, then scoop out cupfuls of water to dump. This tank has an aquaclear 20 filter on it, with a sponge covering surrounding the bottom of the tube so no one gets sucked up.

I recently tried using a smaller piece of tubing (airline tubing, that you'd use for an airstone) to suck up excess junk at the bottom. It did a pretty good job. Didn't get up everything, and actually it did suck up two tiny baby shrimp. But I fished them out of the waste bucket and put them back in the tank before I dumped the water.

oh! good idea :D I'll try the small tubing and siphon out what i can, as well as toothbrush the base, like you said. I am hoping the snail will help clean up any excess that i miss(maybe, then again the snail makes messes too). thanks for the help!

also, glad you saved your babies! that would be awful to loose them. I'm a little weary on using a filter for them, considering most have strong currents. Also, do you ever use a bubbler in the tank? or do plants usually produce enough oxygen in the water that it's not necessary.

wwaahh I miss my ghost shrimp! I have a Dojo and an eel type guy, so no shrimp for me. I loved having them though. Such tidy tank cleaners. Yours are quite pretty.

Ooo dojo loach! I have a trio of black kuhli loaches in a different tank. Loaches are so much fun. And thank you! :)

They are pretty fun! This one was gonna' get flushed for eating the shrimp at the pet store. I couldn't have that. It's an albino.