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Hi all, first post here. I have been researching this and haven't found anything that matches whats going on with my shrimp. Everything i have found is parasites on the shrimps head and body, but nothing looks like this, looks like white specks on the tip of the shrimp's nose. It is affecting about 4 of my shrimp. Seems to be the older ones. If you can tell me what you think it is and how to get rid of it, would be greatly appreciated. Tank is about 2.5 months established So I left for vacation, was gone for 6 days. Right before I left I did a 30% water change and fed them the normal amount of food. There is some algae buildup, due to the lack of CO2 I am assuming. Light is on a timer for 7 hours of light. 10 Gallon tank. When I got back, I had lost 2 shrimp and found that some had white spots on their "noses". Started with about 10 shrimp, there has been some breeding so now there are about 10 or so juveniles and more on the way. Cherry reds, Blue Velvets and 1 CRS are currently in this tank. I typically change my water 1-2 times a week 20-30% and dose Excel and API Leaf Zone twice a week. CO2 every day, sometimes every other day. Let me know if you need any other info. Tried to get decent pictures, but they move around so much it was tough. Can get better photos if needed. I am pretty new to keeping shrimp, so feel free to tell me if I am doing something wrong. I welcome advice. Also, you can see the stringy algae on some of my HC and substrate that I have been battling for what seems like forever in both my tanks. The shrimp don't eat it. If any tips on that also, would be appreciated. May just drop the light cycle if thats it, but i was trying to grow my HC which has been a very slow process. Thanks in advance! Thanks!

So i noticed i seem to have some fuzzy white stuff on the face of some of my red neos and im pretty sure its vorticella. theres only a tiny bit at the moment, so i think I caught it early. I plan to treat with safeguard (fenbendazole) rather than salt dips as I want to treat the whole tank vs individuals. the fenbendazole is only 22% in a 1g packet and everywhere i read that im supposed to use .1g per 10 gallons but im not sure if thats .1g of pure fenbendazole or of panacur/safeguard which is dilute fenbendazole. Regardless, i plan to do one packet in 100ml of water and dose 10ml of liquid meds into the 10g tank. after that ill watch for a day or two and if nothing changes do a second dose then wait two more days and water change. ive already done the first dose and so far 10 hours later there really is no change that I can see so it is making me feel like it was supposed to be .1g pure fenbendazole not .1g of the safeguard. does anyone have experience treating vorticella like this? id love to hear experiences/tips

Ok guys, need a little advice/reassurance here from people with Otos. A few weeks ago, my largest Oto was hanging on the glass right in front of me and I noticed a weird small white "thing" sticking out of his/her vent area that I hadn't noted before. I stared at it, and swear I saw do an "inch-worm" thing that didn't seem normal for fish anatomy, more like a worm hanging out from inside. I also watched the gut when I could (had to do this over a couple sessions, because fish doesn't always like to stay right in front, of course) and thought I saw a non-normal digestive wiggle in the lower part of the intestines. Pooping still happens normally, right alongside the "thing" and the fish is behaving normally, although always my biggest eater. Also always has the roundest belly of them all. I freaked out, contacted a fish-vet friend, and got some advice for some fish dewormers and protocols I could use that would also be shrimp safe. I've done two prolonged-immersion baths with fenbendazole (thinking it was a nematode) for all three fishies, and am due to do the last (ok, actually ovedue, but the schedule didn't work out quite right). The "thing" is unimpressed and still present. I can move on to praziquantel (if it's a flat worm) and should be pretty easy (maybe easier than the fenbendazole), But, I have been wondering if maybe I'm "treating" normal anatomy. So thought I'd ask around! If everyone could now squint closely at their Oto's private bits, and compare... Thing is, I don't see the "thing" on either of the other two Otos, only this one. Every once in a while, I think the poo may come *through* it though, which has me wondering. It's so hard to catch him in the act and see! (yes, waaaay too much time watching a fish poo) Here are some pictures... best I could do, especially since s/he refuses to hold still for my sub-par camera! It appears to come through the vent and extend up into the body to my eye, but we are talking translucent little fish-bits after all....

Hello, I live in NSW, Australia and I caught these shrimp in a large freshwater pond. I took the 2 largest home and they are now in a quarantine tank but there is something growing on the shell of a shrimp. Any idea what it is? I was planning on putting them in my main tank with neon tetras but now I feel like returning them and getting clean ones.