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One more post with fish photos
I have pictured a pair of Albino bushynose/brustlenose plecos in my photo tank. These guys are young make and female, however they have already spawn 3 times.
They were born in my tank from longfin bristlenose parents. Unfortunately, not all babies from longfin are longfins as well. So, these two were not. At the same they still pretty cool and colorful.

Look at the photos below

Bushynose albino pleco

Bushynose albino pleco

Bushynose albino pleco

Bristlenose albino pleco

Bristlenose albino pleco pair

Bushynose albino pleco pair

Bristlenose albino pleco

Bristlenose albino pleco

Bristlenose albino pleco

Bristlenose albino pleco

Bristlenose albino pleco

Bushynose albino pleco

There are some pictures of my beautiful group of longfin albino corydoras catfish.
These is a breeding group and you can see that one of the fish is bigger than the others, it’s female.
There another small fish, it’s not completely grown-up, it was born in the tank and magically survived together with adults. Usually breeding these fish requires separating collecting and hatching eggs separately from the parent.

These guys are active and like to be in a group.
I’m not sure about their species, but they most likely Corydoras aeneus.

Look at the the pictures below.

Longfin albino corydoras catfish

Group of ongfin albino cory catfish

Longfin albino corydoras catfish

Longfin albino corydoras catfish

Pair of longfin albino corydoras catfish

Longfin albino cory catfish

Longfin albino cory catfish

Pair of longfin albino corydoras catfish

Longfin albino cory catfish

Longfin albino cory catfish

Longfin albino cory catfish

Group of longfin albino corydoras catfish

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Orange neocaridina shrimps are not new any more. They came to the hobby about 3 years ago and have quite stable strain now.
Another common name for this Neocaridina davidi var. ‘orange’ shrimp is ‘pumpkin shrimps’. My orange shrimps are not same with pumpkin shrimps. However, all these shrimps are orange, they have different hue. Pumpkin shrimps color is closer to red and orange sakura shrimps are closer to yellow.

Look at the video with a group of orange sakura shrimps on christmass moss.

Look at some new pictures I have recently made:

Orange Sakura shrimps

Orange Sakura shrimp

Neocaridina davidi var orange shrimp

Orange neocaridina shrimps

Orange Sakura shrimps

Neocaridina orange shrimps

This time it is not a shrimp, and it is even not a crayfish It’s a crab. It’s kind of freshwater creature, so I was keeping it for a while.

Scientific name of this red claw crab species is Perisesarma bidens. The crabs are quite wide-spread in Indo-Pacific region on sea shores and islands. They live in mangrove swamps where water is warm and semi-salty (brackish). At the same time, they can live quite long in freshwater and salt water.

Red craw crabs are not big, they grow up 5cm in body size. However, together with the legs the creature can reach 10 cm in size. Males can fish with each other; however multiple hidden places will let them leave each other alone. They like to dig and come out from the water.

Look at some photos of my crab below. It was quite a big 5cm in size specimen.

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

Red claw crab eye is compound!

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

Crab eye in the focus

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

Red claw crab in shrimp tank

I hope these pictures give some understanding of how these funny small crabs look.

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Let me share some more photos I made recently in my 10 gallon painted fire red shrimps (neocaridina davidi) growing tank.
This tank is full of pearl grass plants, look at some shrimps sitting in ‘the bushes’.

Painted fire red shrimps hangs on the plant

Painted fire red shrimps feels great there

Painted fire red shrimp

Painted fire red shrimps feel better in a groups

Painted fire red shrimp on a riccia floating island

Painted fire red shrimp in pearl grass plants

Red shrimps hide in plants

Young painted fire red shrimp

Painted fire red shrimps are walking on plants

I’m sharing some photos of my 10 gallon painted fire red shrimps breeding tank. The tank bottom is covered with pearl grass (Hemianthus micranthemoides) plants. This plant doesn’t belong to a group of aquarium carpeting plants, it’s grow tall. However, if you cut it often and let it spread, it will create a carpet-like cover in your tank. This is what I have here.

You will be surprised, but I have about 1/2″ of black inert sand at the bottom and I don’t add any fertilization to this tank.

Look at the photos with this aquarium.

10g painted fire red shrimps tank is ready for trimming

10g painted fire red shrimps tank is ready for trimming

Pearl grass plants in 10g painted fire red shrimps tank

Look at pearl grass (Hemianthus micranthemoides) plant that I’m growing there

Close up on Hemianthus micranthemoides aquarium plant

Pearl grass branch in a shrimp tank

Hemianthus micranthemoides

And one more photos with a little riccia island floating on the top.

Floating riccia in painted fire red shrimps tank

I’m planning to trim pearls grass in this tank. It will make a big difference. Stay tuned

Recently I have got some very nice blue dream neocaridina davidi freshwater shrimps. The shrimps are Ok, they are breeding, but some odd white marks on their heads were bothering me. So, I took a closer look and I have found little white parasites on heads of two shrimps. Couple of years ago I have this problem with the other shrimps, so I knew what to do

White worms on a shrimp head

Worm parasites on a neocaridina shrimp head

These parasites are flat worms. Their are scientific name is ‘Scutariella japonica‘. They are similar to planaria, however, behave differently. Scutariella japonica seems to be seen mostly on neocadina shrimps.
They have a suction on one end and use it to keep themselves attached to a shrimps shell. It’s good they are not going in to shrimp body though. The other end of a worm has some tentacles. The worm is moving its body and its tentacles from time to time.
It looks like Scutariella japonica worms should not kill their host shrimps. Most of the parasites need their hosts creature be alive. However, lots of parasites can weaken the host creature and speed up their death. I haven’t seen these white worms sitting on shrimp gills (it’s on a side of a head), but it they do, they can harm shrimps quite fast.
These flat worms can move over the shrimp body or even from one shrimp to another using their suction and tentacles. They also lay eggs on a shrimps shell and spread their presents in the tank this way.

Scutariella japonica worms on a neocaridina davidi var. ‘blue dream’ shrimp

Scutariella japonica worms on a shrimp head

Treatment

Now we have come to the main question. How to get rid of these worms and do not kill the shrimps.

In my experience it was pretty easy. This time and two years ago I have used a salt bath.
I have prepared a salty water solution using 1 table spoon of an aquarium salt for 1 US cup of water. After the salt was completely dissolved I have put an infected shrimps into the solution for 20-30 seconds. Once I got the shrimps back from the solution, no parasite were spotted. It looks they are salt water made them relax their suction and they were falling down from the shrimp. I have checked the container with the salt water. I hope the parasites cannot survive in the salt water.

After doing some research on-line I have found successful stories about using Seachem Paraguard, Praziquantel and Sera Mycopur medications. I haven’t used them personally for these purpose.
I think it’s a good idea to make a big water change and use one of the mentioned medications to kill parasites and their eggs living in the tank.
I have a good experience with Praziquantel, which I was using to treat some other problem with my shrimp.

Look at the head of the same shrimps just after the salt bath.

Blue dream shrimps is cured from the parasites