😭 they're my pride and joy, look at them, they're the best thing to happen to me, no more drama, only shrimp

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Ngl they have a lot of complaints

The biggest, oldest Amano-- the one who holds court behind the heater-- finds the entire syscourse climate to be profoundly molt-inducing. Blech 😤

He likens it directly to the state of the tank:

No one can agree on the optimal pH level

The sheer volume of hot (cold) takes and general turbulence is causing unnecessary currents that damage the delicate substrate

The agitation is so intense it makes good surface snacking difficult

There's endless fighting over what color shrimp should actually be, which is a waste of perfectly good caridina energy

Basically, the water is too acidic for anyone's liking

The Amano states that this climate is actively preventing a clean shed of the old exoskeleton-- you can't achieve growth when you're constantly stressed.

They all agree on one thing:

What the world really needs is less yelling and more algae wafers

The funny thing is that fishcourse gets JUST as volatile

It's like a running joke at this point that you go to fish reddit and you'll be like, "i smiled at my fish today :)" and inevitably someone is going to call you out like, "How DARE you, don't you know that releases chemicals in their brain and now they're stressed and they'll poison themselves (corys, what magical little creatures), you should feel terrible and CPS should take your fish away"

Personally, I have mine on a 3 day rotation, because I demand they do what they're supposed to do and clean my goddamn tank LOL

Day 1 they get multivitamin granules sprinkled where they hang out

Day 2 they get a small piece of algae wafer OR pleco pellet OR fresh blanched veggie

And then day 3 my hair algae is growing so I leave them to go eat it

... they're very lazy, though, and they seem perfectly happy to ignore what's supposed to be their FAVORITE food

Then, if any come to the top of the tank, they get freeze dried blood worms, and i hand it to them with tongs and they get on the end and when I'm sure they've got a hold of the worm, I let go and they swim off with it

It's the best part of my day 😭

Tanks... while they can technically go in any kind of tank, small or large, and still be quite happy (they really are easy to care for provided you understand the water stuff), I'll always advocate for them going in a bigger than required tank with at least double the room they need, so like, I've got 15 amano shrimp and a single betta in a 30 gallon

Plus, nano tanks are actually harder to care for

Here's a good one

And finally, an honorable mention to the saltwater sexy shrimp, which i bet you didn't even know existed

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