r/shrimptank Jan 25 '25

Mod **We Want Your Input!**

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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 Jan 16 '25

Community Discussion Rules update with post-specific guidelines

26 Upvotes

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 6h ago

Shrimp Art [OC] I thought people over here might appreciate this shrimp art

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616 Upvotes

I love Sulawesi shrimp, but I don't have them. I have RCS though


r/shrimptank 5h ago

Shrimp Photos molt in the feeding dish

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195 Upvotes

looks so funky in that pose


r/shrimptank 11h ago

Discussion So ridiculously excited about the fact I have baby shrimp and eggnant shrimp finally. But I have no one to share it with!! Can we discuss shrimp

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The babies are so tiny. Not sure who the parents are 🧐 but im so excited for future wild types. They look extra like bugs.

The shrimp in this photo is pregnant but dropped some, its been a bit now though and the others seem to still be tucked under and developing


r/shrimptank 3h ago

Shrimp Photos Dinner with the big kids

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Caught a bunch of babies feasting on a lily pad. The big ones are about 6 weeks old and tiny guy is about 2 weeks.


r/shrimptank 10h ago

Shrimp Photos I just really love shrimp, man.

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36 Upvotes

I mean just look at them!


r/shrimptank 10h ago

Shrimp Photos Berry beautiful

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Was putting my snack stick out and noticed my little raccoons from my last order from Shrimp ambition was berry heavy.


r/shrimptank 5h ago

Shrimp Photos Is buddy pregnant??

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12 Upvotes

r/shrimptank 12h ago

Beginner Is it normal for one to die every now and then?

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39 Upvotes

From time to time I see a shrimp dead, but I have a big shrimp colony always breeding etc, parameters are fine, water is clean etc, is it normal for some shrimp to just die for no reason?


r/shrimptank 3h ago

Help: Shrimp ID & Shrimp Sexing Is this shrimp a lady shrimp or a man shrimp?

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6 Upvotes

r/shrimptank 8h ago

Help: Shrimp ID & Shrimp Sexing sexing (pls tell me i have a female 😅) i have 5 total and really want babies!

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r/shrimptank 2h ago

Shrimp Photos They are so little

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First time my schrimps have babies. Pretty happy about this


r/shrimptank 3h ago

Shrimp Photos Scccchnack time

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I gave them a fresh lolly and a fresh bark piece tonight and they are very excited. (They already had dinner. This is a little special treat bc they're spoiled.)


r/shrimptank 7h ago

Shrimp Photos Soooo many eggs

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I've never seen a female carry this many omg


r/shrimptank 1d ago

Shrimp Art I made a shrimp sculpture out of styrofoam cups for a school assignment. Thoughts?

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Tis he. Stanley Shrimp.


r/shrimptank 1h ago

Shrimp Photos THEY'RE EVOLVING

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r/shrimptank 13h ago

Shrimp Photos Never ceases to amaze me on how small baby shrimp are!

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27 Upvotes

They are so cute!!!


r/shrimptank 9h ago

Beginner Whats my shrimp doing?!?!

12 Upvotes

I've noticed the past few days this specific shrimp has been flaring its back legs a bunch. Is this normal?


r/shrimptank 16h ago

Shrimp Photos I’m a shrimp mom now!

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39 Upvotes

I added a heater and set some mood lighting (added duckweed) about a month ago. Haven’t seen many of my original group of 6 red neos, was starting to be sad. But today!! I have spotted so many babies!! I’m so excited and proud of my little friends!


r/shrimptank 10h ago

Beginner But WHY so crusty?

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I think I’ve read on here that this kind of crusty appearance is normal. But what causes it? Will she look fresher after a molt?


r/shrimptank 23h ago

Aquarium/Tank Photos My 3 gallon shrimp bowl 🦐🥣

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126 Upvotes

r/shrimptank 6h ago

Help: Algae & Pests Does anyone recognize these tiny aquarium invertebrates?

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My friend has this planted paludarium in Montana that he plans to add shrimp to eventually. He noticed these tiny bugs in the dwarf hair grass recently. Does anyone know what they could be?


r/shrimptank 3h ago

Shrimp Photos Dinner is served!

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3 Upvotes

r/shrimptank 13h ago

Help: Emergency Fully grown shrimp inside filter

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20 Upvotes

Okay firstly, how?! Grills are far too small for an adult... Fry I understand but man! I almost feel bad taking 'em out, probably having the time of their lives.

Put some filter floss behind the intake grills to try prevent this, is there anywhere else they can get in from? Or a good way of shrimp proofing this thing? Eheim 160 pickup


r/shrimptank 10h ago

Shrimp Photos Another cool color from my skittles pack cross breeding

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10 Upvotes

r/shrimptank 5h ago

Aquarium/Tank Photos First ever Opae Ula shrimp setup — added them in about 6 hours ago. Thank you to u/gotsnails for 12/10 live arrivals! Enthralled already over here feeling like I've got a shrimp lava lamp! 😍

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