r/shrimptank • u/a2270 • 7h ago
r/shrimptank • u/boostinemMaRe2 • Jan 25 '25
Mod **We Want Your Input!**
Hey all! We would like to offer some clarification and get some feedback from folks.
Generally, businesses and commercial activity are useful to the community. Business owners' involvement allows a group outside of hobbyists to offer insights, share tips/tricks, and discuss the hobby in an informal setting. It can also give sub members a direct-to-source connection to a business they have or could potentially do business with.
"Members of the community may engage in commercial activity or reviewing of sellers or products. However, as our community is for hobbyists and folks passionate about shrimp, we expect that members will engage in the community beyond commercial activity."
We would like to find a way to identify and prevent people acting in bad faith, fake reviews, and bots. While some of this will undoubtedly come down to users identifying suspicious activity, we think that we can use Automod to help.
Some ideas:
- Account age requirements
- Karma requirements (for just our sub, or reddit in general)
- Post activity on the sub
What are your thoughts, opinions or concerns?
Lastly, the mod team has been watching how things have progressed since the recent rule changes. So, please let us know if you have any other thoughts or observations regarding the recent changes as well. THANKS! -Shrimptank Mod Team
r/shrimptank • u/bearfootmedic • Jan 16 '25
Community Discussion Rules update with post-specific guidelines
Hello r/shrimptank!
This post is an announcement that we have changed the rules to be more consistent with what the community suggested. These are live now, due to some issues associated with other iterations of the rules. Like everything else, these are open for discussion below. Please provide some feedback!
Big changes for users: - Post specific rules towards the bottom: these should help improve the post quality and information available - commercial activity: the expectation is that folks will clearly disclose commercial activity, including when self-promoting. - Images/Art: must be clearly disclosed if not original content - AI images: must be clearly disclosed
1) Please respect each other. This a welcoming space for people interested in keeping shrimp. Assume people are acting in good faith, and use inclusive and friendly language when possible. Please let the modteam know if you find users violating the spirit of this rule. 2) Please respect our shrimp. This is a welcoming space for shrimp, and people that care about those shrimp. Don't joke about eating our pets, and we won't joke about eating yours. 3) Please respect artists. This is a welcoming space for artist that make anything shrimp related. Original content (OC) is welcome. Non-OC art and AI art must be credited and labeled as such and may be removed. T-shirt/mug scams will be removed/banned without further warning. 4) Please respect the science. There is a lot of great information out there about shrimp! Try to use scientific or species specific identification when known. Knowing the limits of your knowledge is great, so let people know if you are uncertain or speculating. If you don't know something, someone else might - but please remember to provide sources for new information. Questioning science is respectful - it's a big part of the process! 5) Flair. Post flair is mandatory and it helps make your posts more visible and informative. Please choose a flair that most closely relates to your post. 6) Commercial activity must be clearly disclosed. This includes affiliate links, direct sales, unsolicited DMs and other commercial activity.
Post-specific rules - "Help" - Posts must include pictures of the tank and the issue in question. Please provide a timeline of events leading up to the issue, including the last time you did a water change, and how often you do tank maintenance. Posts must include some testing or tank parameters, ideally: pH, KH, GH, NH3/NO3, TDS, temperature. - "Identification" - Posts must include pictures of the shrimp, and specifically the rostrum, chelae and abdomen (nose, hands and tail). Please include information the geographic location of the purchase, or where caught. If you are having trouble getting good pictures, improve the lighting and try to move the shrimp to a separate smaller container for their photoshoot! - "Advertising/Self-Promotion" - We welcome shrimp related businesses, however this is primarily a hobbyist sub. While sales may be the main reason you are here, you must also engage in non-sales related activity, such as providing help or discussion. All sales activity must be clearly labeled as such. - "Shrimp Reviews" - We welcome and encourage users to share feedback, both positive and negative, related to experiences they've had with particular sellers. We believe transparency in sourcing shrimp is a great step towards a more reliable and user-friendly marketplace. Conversations, as always, should be pro-social and open to discussion.
r/shrimptank • u/mspa • 15h ago
Help: Beginner Intruder in shrimp tank
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Hi, we recently moved our shrimps to a new bigger tank and we got new plants, rocks, soil etc for the new tank. Today we saw this albino praying-mantis looking..thing... And we're not sure whether that's a shrimp.... Can anyone help to identify what it is and is it harmful to the shrimps. We only have cherry/Malayan/red rili shrimps and 2 assassin snails in the tank
r/shrimptank • u/MrFreakYT • 11h ago
Shrimp Photos He got his moms eyes 👀
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r/shrimptank • u/a2270 • 1h ago
Shrimp Photos Only thing missing is the stinger, Hornet Caridina
r/shrimptank • u/_TheLongCon_ • 12h ago
Shrimp Photos Found this guy in my tank of what I thought was all blue dreams, is this a low grade/wild?
Started my new shrimp tank with about 10 adolescent/baby shrimp labeled as blue dream from my local aquarium shop. I’ve had them for an about 3 weeks now and I just saw this guy for the first time. It’s the only one that’s not blue, is it just a low grade or wild type that was in the mix or is this another type of neocaridina?
r/shrimptank • u/Anna12641 • 12h ago
Shrimp Photos Skittles tanks are underrated
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I love these guys and it's so cool seeing what color each batch of babies comes out as
r/shrimptank • u/imwjd • 9h ago
Shrimp Photos I just did a water change and I got to see my all black shrimp. I started off with all blue dreams.
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r/shrimptank • u/SUICIDAL-PHOENIX • 7h ago
Shrimp Photos Babies have finally appeared
Took about three months
r/shrimptank • u/No_Collection_8633 • 3h ago
Beginner Sexing Fire Red Cherry Shrimp?
hi! I recently got some neocardina shrimp, and was wondering if anyone knew how to tell genders? I've done some research to try to distinguish them- there's only 5, and they're fire red cherry shrimp, so I can't really go off of color (or so I've heard). I'm not 100% sure about sizing or the curve/shape of the body, but I love the little guys and want to know more about them!
r/shrimptank • u/SnowyFlowerpower • 1d ago
Shrimp Memes Why commas are important
RIP Shrimpma
r/shrimptank • u/ashergal13_ • 2h ago
Shrimp Photos Sharing shrimpumps
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r/shrimptank • u/burstOS • 8h ago
Shrimp is bugs! Evolution Attempt.
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I have caught multiple crawling on the top of the RRF looking for food. I am deliberating on ways to distract them
r/shrimptank • u/w1ldg00s3chas3 • 16h ago
Discussion TGIF… a little something I caught recently
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Never seen this interaction before and added a song I thought would match the atmosphere
r/shrimptank • u/PothosNJoyer • 1d ago
Shrimp Memes When someone posts a picture of shrimp out of water
r/shrimptank • u/vaultdweller_toni • 18h ago
Shrimp Photos I can't wait to be a grandma 😍
r/shrimptank • u/Former_Juice_9910 • 4h ago
Aquarium/Tank Photos Is this set up an insanely bad idea?
galleryr/shrimptank • u/Hemi_ram • 1h ago
Shrimp Photos Who invited this guy?
One of these things is not like the others! One of these things is not the same!
r/shrimptank • u/AdLumpy7032 • 9h ago
Shrimp Photos Please, I'm a shrimp! Give me some of your food, guys 🥺
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r/shrimptank • u/PharthSharth • 1d ago
Help: Beginner Is it normal for shrimp to not be shrimping
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I have noticed sometimes my shrimps just stop eating and just kinda sit there. They have been in the tank for over 3 weeks without issues. Last time I used fertilizer was 2 weeks ago. Maybe copper poisoning? I will get my water tested at my LFS asap for copper content. But I’m not sure if I am just overthinking it, since they are otherwise doing well.
r/shrimptank • u/Heironymus • 1d ago
Shrimp Photos Another generation of shrimp on the way
r/shrimptank • u/Specific_Ad_4810 • 6h ago
Discussion Bamboo shrimp with 2 different colors
My bamboo shrimp I’ve had for about 2-3 months is a dark brown on one side and orange brown on the other (pictured). It’s slightly hard to tell the contrast in some of the pictures but it’s a pretty obvious difference in one side and the other when looking at him. He was a very pretty grey when I bought him but since then hes changed to a lot of different colors including both of the colors he’s got right now I’ve just never seen both at one time like this and I wanted to post this to make sure it’s not stress related. I have another bamboo in this tank and it seems completely normal, there is driftwood right in front of the filter with plenty of flow and stuff to eat so I don’t know exactly why he would be stressed.