Talk:Davidi shrimp

message: I did a preliminary clean-and-polish job on the article. It still needs a lot of work, including a taxonomy box, illustrations (I'll upload some pictures of my shrimp once I've had more sleep!), sources, and a lot of linkage. A lot of details need to be nailed down, too, including the time for eggs to hatch, a few technical terms, the natural and trade history of the species, mention of and linkage to related species, etc. More to come.
Worldwalker (talk) 09:30, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Working on the Cleanup 

message: Note to shrimp vendors who are trying to advertise here: I can't speak for other hobbyists, but I make a policy of not doing business with companies that try to stick their advertising into Wikipedia pages. That's two of you so far. Any more want to try for my personal no-buy list?
Worldwalker (talk) 17:27, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commercial Links 

message: Agreed, "Cherry Shrimp" is possibly the worst name for it out of all the likely alternatives. Do we want to go with "Red Cherry Shrimp" or "Neocaridina heteropoda"? Normally I'd say go with the scientific name, but the way the taxonomists have been going on a rampage through the shrimp names lately, I think the common name actually has a greater chance of remaining stable.
Y'know, while we're at it, we need a genus page for Neocaridina too. At least until they split it into about three new genera, none of which are Neocaridina. (Me? Cynical? What makes you think that?) Worldwalker (talk) 10:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Name 

message: This article provides a lot of interesting information on the species, but we cannot have and article, no matter what the size, without a single reference. Could anyone tell me who was responsible for writing most of the article, so I can talk to those users? I didn't want to put an "unreferenced" template on this page, I thought I'd get started with this right away.--Crustaceanguy (talk) 22:43, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References, please 

message: Feb 23, 2010. Hello. I have been breeding red cherry shrimp (a type of dwarf freshwater shrimp) since 2006. Since then I have ferreted out the myths from the facts. Info and studies about RCS are very hard to come by but I did find out some things about them. Here are my clarifications. 
====Copper and Heavy Metals====
Shrimp and all freshwater (FW) inverts are susceptible to heavy metals. But only in ELEMENTAL form. Putting a copper pipe in a tank is bad because that is pure, elemental copper. Copper compounds are less harmful to inverts, except in very high amounts. Thus copper sulfate, found in minute amounts in almost every fish food, will NOT harm shrimp or inverts. I have been feeding my shrimp food with copper sulfate since 2006 with no problems. Using a snail killer, which is a very high amount of copper sulfate, WILL kill your shrimp. If you have problems with your shrimp, it is not from copper compounds in food.
Other bad ideas are fish tank decorations made in China, as they often use lead in their paints. Even if it says "safe for aquariums", Chinese companies do little or no quality control on their items. I have also heard that clay pots made in China are bad as their clay has naturally occuring levels of lead.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuckr30 (talk • contribs) 13:58, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes on RCS

message: Shrimp and all freshwater (FW) inverts are susceptible to heavy metals. But only in ELEMENTAL form. Putting a copper pipe in a tank is bad because that is pure, elemental copper. Copper compounds are less harmful to inverts, except in very high amounts. Thus copper sulfate, found in minute amounts in almost every fish food, will NOT harm shrimp or inverts. I have been feeding my shrimp food with copper sulfate since 2006 with no problems. Using a snail killer, which is a very high amount of copper sulfate, WILL kill your shrimp. If you have problems with your shrimp, it is not from copper compounds in food.
Other bad ideas are fish tank decorations made in China, as they often use lead in their paints. Even if it says "safe for aquariums", Chinese companies do little or no quality control on their items. I have also heard that clay pots made in China are bad as their clay has naturally occuring levels of lead.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuckr30 (talk • contribs) 13:58, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Copper and Heavy Metals

message: Shrimp require "clean" water. "Dirty" water in a fish tank is very different from "dirty" water in your bathtub. Just because the water is clear in a fish tank, does not mean it is clean. "Clean" in a fish tank means acceptable levels of ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates in relation to the animals you have. Shrimp need zero ammonia, zero nitrites, and less than 40ppm nitrates. Some FW shrimp are more sensitive to nitrates and may require less than 20ppm of nitrates.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuckr30 (talk • contribs) 13:55, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Water quality