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Originally Posted by parm104
Oh ya? Everyone I've spoken to at local shops have told me shrimp are the easiest thing to put in a tank. Thanks for the heads up b/c the whole reason I was putting them in is because they're supposed to be low-maintenance.
What exactly does caring for crystal-shrimp entail?
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I'm general, shrimp are easy. Cherry Shrimp or any of its variants are easy to keep. Crystal Shrimp or any of its variants are extremely sensitive. I've tried unsuccessfully to keep them and ended up with $100's of dollars of dead shrimp. I wasn't as dedicated to constantly monitor the water parameters as I should have been. Crystal shrimp are pretty picky but once you figure out the parameters and have a proper regime they're easy to keep.
I just wasn't dedicated enough to do it. If you want low maintenance shrimp try cherry shrimp, painted fire red, yellow shrimp or blueberry shrimp. The names get changed very frequently but those are the hardy ones.
OR if you just want shrimp but don't care about colors, get amano shrimp. They're super hardy and will eat black beard algae. They won't reproduce in your tank though as they need brackish water when they are larvae.
Which LFS did you go to? Most of them don't know WTF they're talking about when it comes to shrimp.