How to distinguish female and male

This is the most important thing you need to know if you would like to breed crystal red shrimp. If you can not distinguish female and male, there would be not fun to breed them.

Body shape: The belly of a mature female is wider and rounder, with four shorter tentacles in front of eyes, compared to a mature male.

The link below will lead you to photos of a male. You will see the hugh different between them.

http://crystalredshrimp-yoyo.blogspot.com/2009/06/one-of-my-favirate-male-crs.html

Ovary: Female's ovary is located in the connection place of head and body. That would be a shallow spot. Distiguish it from intestine, which is a long tube in the body.

(P.S. this female is going to be pregnant soon)

Aquarium Tap Water Filter

This is the tap water filter I used to create perfect soft aquarium water for my crystal red shrimps. The only thing you may need to do is to increase GH level after water changing, since the filter lowers both KH and GH level. A proper GH level could help enhance and improve the solidity of CRS's coloration.

Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Tap Water Filter 

Detailed introduction of this fiter:
Makes perfect deionized aquarium water with organice-removal chamber and color-changing Ion-Exchang resin. One of the most advantage of this tap water filter is that it creates perfect deionized water and easily adjusts pH and water hardness.


Function:
" ALL DISSOLVED MINERALS:
Including: Chloride, etc.
ALL HEAVY METALS:
Including: Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron, Cadmium, Aluminum
UNDESIRABLE CONTAMINANTS:
Including: Phosphate, Nitrate, Ammonia, Silicate, Nitrite,
CHLORINE and CHLORAMINE
ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
Including: Insecticides, Herbicides, Pesticides, PCBs"