I have mini ramshorn snails in half of my tanks. This is not because I like them or I wanted them, they are just evasion. They came from nowhere and nearly impossible to get rid of. Yesterday I was going to clean my IWAGUMI shrimp cube tank sides and notices several snail eggs clutches. These […]

Recently I have decided to clean my riccia mat from some soft green algae growing on it. As you might know, the best way to clean plants from algae is to put them into a tank where you keep a big and healthy colony of shrimps. Shrimps will not spend much time to eat every […]

Recently I had a change to visit a house with beautiful aquariums full of gorgeous fish. I have never thought that rainbow fish could be that stunning. Look at the photos I made below

There are several photos of one of my old tanks. As you can see it has lots of soft green algae. Algae as well as decayed plants are natural food for shrimps. I grow algae in all my shrimps tanks. I just add extra plant fertilization and keep light working 24 hours for first several […]

Mini Water Lettuce is another suitable floating plant for a shrimp tank. I was writing about amazon frogbit before. These plants are quite similar in keeping and grows speed. Scientific name of this plant is Pistia Stratiotes. There are different varieties that mostly different in size and shape of leaves. Mine is small. I keep […]