They came!

[Ellen4God]

I got my cherry shrimp today!!! I was watching the window for the mail to come like a kid waiting for Santa. I am so excited!! They look so incredibly tiny! I can't wait to get them into the tank.

Thanks, Algenco!!!!

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[Lady Hobbs]

I hope you love them as much as I love mine. Who woulda thunk I'd ever want shrimp! They are very red and easier to find in the tank now but yes, they are some wee ones but already growing, I think.

[Ellen4God]

Should I just put the java moss they came with inside the tank? Not really sure how to get them into the tank without getting the water in the bag into the tank as well.

How'd you do it, Hobbs?

[travie]

If you trust Algenco's water, I would just dump all the water into the tank. Which is what I would probably do if I got fish/inverts from a member on here. Just my thoughts.

[Lady Hobbs]

Dumped it all in at once. They will hide in it for awhile but then check out the tank. OH......Algenco reminded me of something I had not considered. Wrap something around the uptake tube. I have a piece of nylon covering mine up.

[YaYgoldFish]

Why not use a net?

[Ellen4God]

Alrighty! I thought about just dumping it in, but wasn't sure since we're told not to do that with store water - although I do trust Algenco completely - just wanted to make sure!!

I hadn't thought about that either, Hobbs! I will definitely do that as well. Thanks!!!

[Lady Hobbs]

Algenco has great water and no problem with just dumping. Too danged small to net, anyway.

[Algenco]

water in my shrimp tanks is so clean if it weren't for the soil/sand substrate the plants wouldn't grow at all:hmm3grin2orange:

[Ellen4God]

lol Well, dump, I did. It was a little harder than I thought though because some of the little guys didn't want to come out. Poor fellas. Took me a couple times of putting more water into the bag and dumping again to get all of them out.

They're all swimming around the tank and eating things already. I counted at least 20 just looking at the tank for a couple seconds. I'm sure there are still some scared once hanging out in the java moss.

Some of them are so tiny! Only about a cm, probably. Others are bigger. So so neat!!! I had to pull myself away from the tank so that I can finish some lesson plans that I have to turn in by 5:00 (AAAH! only about 4 hours left). Watching them will have to be my reward when I'm finished.

[Ellen4God]

Oh, and those pantyhose are SO stylish on my filter intake. lol

[Algenco]

if you can see 50% most of the time your lucky, they like to hide.
Feeding a few sinking pellets will bring them out.

In a well established tank there is enough food present to keep them happy for a long time. If you have a sand substrate they will clean every grain in time.
Shrimp love the bio-film, occasionally take something from another tank, rock, moss, anything, and put in with them, they will swarm over it eating the bio-film:hmm3grin2orange:

[Ellen4God]

if you can see 50% most of the time your lucky, they like to hide.
Feeding a few sinking pellets will bring them out.

In a well established tank there is enough food present to keep them happy for a long time. If you have a sand substrate they will clean every grain in time.
Shrimp love the bio-film, occasionally take something from another tank, rock, moss, anything, and put in with them, they will swarm over it eating the bio-film:hmm3grin2orange:

Wow! That's pretty amazing. They're definitely going after my "bio-film" right now!