Bought her at Petco because I thought she was berried. Have her alone in a tub until I know for sure. It’s been 2 days and she’s still green

internet says 30-40 days, maybe i’m just being impatient
but I’d also like some advice on raising baby neo shrimp, what has worked for you guys? I want an army

I need to know all the little and big details as I’ve never owned shrimp before!
Here are a bunch of my questions:

What fish can go with them?
What aquatic plants should I buy? Preferably plants that can live on rocks, driftwood or on top of the tank!
What food do they eat?
Do aquatic plants rot easily?
How often do I need to clean the tank?
Should I buy sand or gravel?
Do shrimp and plants need lots of light or can it be moderate?
Should I get snails?
Most importantly, how long should I let the tank cycle for?
And finally, how much shrimp should I start with?

Thank you so much in advance!

This is my first tank! I’ve heard caridinas are harder to care for than neos but I feel like my parameters are more caridina inclined..? I have a bunch of bladder snails, one mystery snail, one nerite snail, and 4 happy amano shrimp so far.

Ph likes to stay between 6.4-6.6

KH is 0-1 (test is yellow after the first drop)

GH is between 30-60 on the test strip (Ive been adding a tiny amount of equilibrium to keep it around this range so that the snails are happy)

Ammonia is 0

Nitrite is 0

Nitrate is between 0-5.0 ppm

Sponge filter, I have a heater, heavily planted, cycled for two months

Thought I would share my skittles tank with some feeding time photos. I know that at least one is holding eggs.

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Vampire shrimp version of T-posing.

What brands or companies to try? Which types are actually helping? Which can be fed to moina and daphnia cultures? Can it be given to fish? And maybe it's a scam?

I’ve had my nano tank going for 2 months and it is full of babies. They‘re way too small to get a picture of atm. Orange babies, red babies, blue babies, ghost babies. It’s like they got busy as soon as I put them in.

I had no clue until I saw tiny specs darting around during a water change. Is it supposed to be this easy to breed them?!

edit: I just counted 4 shrimp completely full of eggs so I have many more on the way!

Been dying to get a shrimp tattoo and I finally got one 🤠

This is my coolest shrimp out of them all! I have more blue and red but it’s in a much different pattern. I would love to have a female blue red rili to breed them but for now i’ll have to wait and see if i’m lucky enough to get another one! So what should i call him ?

Got about 5 of these from the petstore the other day and took some upclose pictures. Are these actually whisker shrimp?

UPDATE: Thank you for the answers. I was do research and found out they could get mixed up in yhe stores and wasn't sure if thats what happened to me. This is my first time keeping shrimp so I couldnt fully tell myself.

My male shrimp recently shed, pretty cool! Unfortunately I only had a pathetic American measuring tape around. Second pic is him fresh just hanging out near his favourite spot.

Is this normal? Any bad sign?

Some pics of Neos I’ve bred over the course of six months