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A shrimp tank is a good idea but I'm absolutely certain my current shrimp would munch anything smaller than her! Which shrimp are bad climbers? Because she escaped today... Took a bathe in the jacuzzi at the top...

Transferred - all good! Initially not impressed with me - made me feel like a Conservative imposing bedroom tax... Has settled now though. Would it be cruel to stick a betta in there? I always said I wouldn't put a fish in anything smaller than 62 litres... Last time I tried putting more shrimp...

Ditto! Only running for 6 weeks and with that amount of fish... Sounds like your tank is still cycling.

Took this pic of my shrimp 8 years ago! Good to know there are other geriatric shrimp out there - people keep telling me its not possible! https://flic.kr/p/4RZPno

I don't suppose you purchased new plants at the same time? It's just the flitting about manically and then curling up is what mine did when I put new plants in the tank. I removed the plants and did a 50% water change and they recovered really quickly. Apparently places like pets at home (where...

Thank you for that. I wasn't sure whether there would be any healthy bacteria left on anything! The old pump I've had to ditch as it stinks but I think the smell was mainly from that because the water doesn't smell too bad. Will transfer what I can to the new tank - although I'm not sure much of...

I have a 62 litre tank which has been running quite merrily for 12 years. I hold my hands up and admit that I was getting bored of maintaining it so had stopped stocking it and kind of decided when the last occupant popped its clogs i would ditch. Well my last occupant is a glass shrimp - he...