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Welcome to the forum BombShocked!

Be sure to post pics of your setups and ask any questions you have! Plenty of experienced keepers online to help you keep your shrimps healthy and happy!

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ok so i thought i better post a bit about myself...

 

me and my brother both have the aquarium bug haha

 

im 23, started off with tanks in 2005 playing around with planted community after about 3-4 years we moved house and i gave my fish and tanks away to a friend

 

fast forward a few years and i decided one day i wanted another tank... so i just shot down to an aquarium store got a tank 3 footer with light and stand w/e basic starter kit ph test heater ph down general crap u get when u know nothing

 

after i had this tank for a bit with just rocks in the bottom and some struggling plants i started looking around on the net and i found a forum in my local area dedicated to fish keeping hahah wow..

 

after i found this forum one day a generous member posted 2 2ft tanks for free and it was like 5 minutes from my house, so i got these 2 tanks and put them on a bench in the shed, i had these 2 tanks 1 looked pretty bad so i decided i was going to cut it apart and re stick it together,(i figured how hard can making a square be right?) back to youtube

 

so i cycled the tank using some longfin BN's the old way...  10%-20% wcs everyday for 5-6 weeks, you know when you don't have 15 sponges running, anyways appistos moved in and long story short they breed and i had to use the other tank 1 for parents 1 for fry about 50 fry

 

then i discovered L# Catfish and i wanted some...

 

so i had about 9 tanks now and my parents house sold..... so we were moving, 2 moves later and 1 more to go im at 11 tanks or so now just started playing around with pressurized c02 for plants, and the only shrimp i keep are chameleon/ninja and white bees, ive been struggling with them but i found out now that my 500 ppm tap water wasn't the best for them....gh 11 kh5 sitting on top of a fridge at 17 degrees.... outnumbered by ninja shrimp 10 to one

 

so i had to get the ro water/Distilled and get some salty shrimp minerals and some benbachi bee balls, heater. now WP 200 ppm gh 7 kh 3 temp 21 im looking at the benbachi mineral powder,as i also think im having moulting problems one of my shrimp looked really weird when it was on the sponge the other day like it wasn't fully developed it's shell was like... weird, thin, not there?

 

after i moved the tank around a bit the next day i noticed a few dead guys so i did a decent water change now i have about 2-3 adults left after reading on here maybe im putting the water in to fast but its only 10% change run through an airline 10 mins for 4 liters?

 

the thing thats making me wonder whats going on is theres baby shrimp still loving it in there and i thought even the slightest parameter swings would have knocked the little guys off first, so im guessing its a CA deficiency or MG as the tank is about 3 months old....and the more mature shrimp need more of it(CA,MG) for there shells then the little guys???

 

so i pmed my fish store guy (Ollie at Aquotix) and he got some info from one of your members and told me to check out the site and join up :) and buy some mineral powder

 

but on the good news side of it i have noticed about 20 baby shrimpletts swimming around and i fed them some banana today as i was reading some posts they loved it hahah mainly feed them IAL,Kale Tablets

 

everything settled now deaths have stopped i think it was due to me dropping the tds down a little fast for them combined with catching all the ninja shrimp out of the tank disturbing it all, Could have also been a predatory thing? white shrimp try to change shell and get eaten from ninjas?

 

did i write to much ahhahah

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Hi bombshell,

Excellent intro.

Welcome to SKF.

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