A Brief Care Instructions
These shrimps are very easy to keep. Not only that they are very interesting to watch, they are really useful for keeping your aquarium clean by eating algae and leftover fish food or detritus! If you are setting up a new aquarium for these shrimps, I suggest that you let your tank to cycle for at least 3-4 weeks before adding any shrimps. This is because any detectable Ammonia or Nitrite (NO2) will likely kill them. If you intend to breed them, make sure your filter intake has a sponge or fine mesh to prevent any baby shrimplets (~1.5mm) from being sucked into the filter! Be patient as the shrimplets take at least 4-6 months to become reproductively mature! The larger the tank the better because water chemistry is more stable in larger tanks. Try to do a 30% water change weekly to keep them healthy. Feeding is optional since they will eat microscopic algae and detritus in the tank. If you choose to feed them fish food (which I do too), make sure you do not over feed. One flake is sufficient for a group of 2-4 shrimps to share!! I feed my shrimps daily with one or two flakes/pellets of Hikari Crab Cusines, Hikari Algae Wafers (has to be broken into very small pieces), Tetra Pro Color Crisp and Tetra Pro Vegetable Crisp to provide them with a variety of nutrition. More detail information can be found here. Briefly, they are recommended to be kept in slightly acidic (pH 6.5-7.0) and soft water (KH 3-6) at 20-25C. Because London water is rather alkaline (pH 7.8-8) and hard (KH 8-10), I add Indian Almond leaf (see my other items for sale) in the tank to help lower the pH and soften the water slightly and they seem to like it. To keep up the water quality, I always place food for shrimps on the leaf so that tiny pieces of food do not fall in between the gravels and left uneaten hence pollute the water. So placing the food on the leaf make sure that they eat every single bits! | 
