Hello All,
I have a question about my whisker shrimp that I recently got in my 5 gallon aquarium (I setup a small tank, as experiment, if everything goes well, definitely will switch to something bigger). In the local pet store, they told me shrimps are absolutely harmless, but this particular shrimp is very aggressive. I have 2 of them, the small one looks exactly like on the pictures, when someone describes a whisker shrimp, but second one (picture in gallery) looks more like “crayfish” with big claws. During a day time I don’t see him attacking a lot, but overnight (picture in gallery) 2 neon’s get’s smaller and smaller their tails. May be shrimp is hungry? Also before I start this post I measured the water conditions and here’s what I got:
pH – 5 closer to 6 (I know it’s low, I use to have 7.5. That is my second question, how can I bring it up?)
Ammonia – 0
Temp - 76 F
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Aram
I have a question about my whisker shrimp that I recently got in my 5 gallon aquarium (I setup a small tank, as experiment, if everything goes well, definitely will switch to something bigger). In the local pet store, they told me shrimps are absolutely harmless, but this particular shrimp is very aggressive. I have 2 of them, the small one looks exactly like on the pictures, when someone describes a whisker shrimp, but second one (picture in gallery) looks more like “crayfish” with big claws. During a day time I don’t see him attacking a lot, but overnight (picture in gallery) 2 neon’s get’s smaller and smaller their tails. May be shrimp is hungry? Also before I start this post I measured the water conditions and here’s what I got:
pH – 5 closer to 6 (I know it’s low, I use to have 7.5. That is my second question, how can I bring it up?)
Ammonia – 0
Temp - 76 F
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Aram