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  1. Shrimp & Other Invertebrates
    Ok gang- I need help identifying. Shrimp or scud? I have had tanks for a long time but I have never had any invertebrates of any kind, so I have no idea. To me, its curved tail seems like a scud but it never moves with that side whip action. Only walking- very quickly or walk/swimming through...
  2. Fish
    Hi all, this is my first post on here! I currently have a couple scarlet badis and a pea puffer in a 10g planted. I recently got a 20g long and am currently scaping and am going to put them in there when it’s done in a few weeks. I was hoping that I could get a small colony of live food in...
  3. Fish
    Hello! I have a single betta fish in a 10 gallon tank, and I was wondering what live food would be the best I really don't want to use brine shrimp because I would like something bigger. I've been looking at seed shrimp or scuds so if anyone knows a good way to breed them, let me know!!! I...
  4. Shrimp & Other Invertebrates
    Recently, I’ve seen a lot of posts on YouTube and other platforms about how to get rid of things such as planarias pond snails, scuds, you name it. So why are these creatures hated? Are they destructive to the tank or is it just a aesthetic thing(The look of a bunch of snails crawling by...
  5. Shrimp & Other Invertebrates
    I have a tank with a scud problem that I was going to nuke but before I do, I was wondering if there was a market for scuds as food?
  6. General Planted Tank Discussion
    What are these things? I'm thinking Scuds or some type of amphipod, but I've never seen one with the hairs/spikes on it. I got them from a local pond, hoping to catch some daphnia. If these are scuds, I may have found a new food source. Here's a video; Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
  7. Shrimp & Other Invertebrates
    I just brought a couple of water plants back from the river, and they're sitting in a bucket so I can get the bugs off. Among those bugs are about six scuds, and I was wondering if they're good things to have in an aquarium. Said scuds are sitting in a cup of tank water, scudding around. I was...
  8. Shrimp & Other Invertebrates
    I have a little 10 gallon planted tank setup I have been trying to get established for a few months now. I have had a verity of issues such as 95% all the plants I have ordered online took so long in shipping nothing sprouted :/ Anyway I started having an outbreak of Break, Black, Red (not...
  9. General Planted Tank Discussion
    Hey, I just started a shrimp (CRS) planted tank and found 2 aliens in the tank: Gammarus aka scuds, which is potentially harmful to shrimps and plants. So I want to get rid of them by adding their natural predator (fish), namely botia yoyo or botia zebra, after moving all of my CRS to...
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