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  1. 3 times the size sounds like you had 2 batches of babies, maybe another shrimp is a girl and was pregos and you didn't know? Or maybe an egg that was discarded eventually hatched later? With the right conditions its possible for them to hatch without being on the momma (there was a thread where this guy painstaking removed the eggs off of a dead female and eventually hatched them). What concerns me is how your shrimp our getting out of the tank, never have i had a shrimp jump out of my tank! Two dead adults in two days sounds concerning, maybe check your parameters (again) and maybe lower your water line. Hopefully your fry survive to replenish your stock.
  2. From my experience, bettas attack anything that moves, even adult shrimp...i would be careful. Also check your gh/kh levels, a lot of people ignore this and PH swings/molting problems will eventually kill your shrimplets. I believe KH need to be around 3-6 and GH between 7-9 for RCS. Careful with the PPM too, if you can't get RO I would use distilled water. Oh and the little things are copepods (aka cyclops). Your betta prolly eats them (my guppies love them). I like to have those bc they breakdown detritus further and they also let me know how my water is, kinda like a canary...if they start disappearing then you know something might be up...
  3. Just stop feeding them food that they do not eat within a hour, planaria will eventually go away. Try feeding them frozen peas (remove outside), blanched zuccini or fluval shrimp granules. Better yet, ask the person you got them from what they were fed. Depending on the stock, some RCS prefer totally different feed even tho they are the same type. I would try to avoid chemicals at all costs...
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