Re-start

[chatony111]

Hey guys,

I'm Chatwin and i am relatively new to this forum! Just wanted to share a few photos of my new tank. I currently own 10 CRS in a 40L tank. My aim is to breed them and hopefully keep up the relatively high grade! I had previously Grade A CRS however the colony died after a year due to poor maintenance. This will not happen again! 

My current water parameters are: pH(6.8), NH3/NH4(0), NO2(0), NO3(10), PO3(0), i am waiting to buy a KH and GH test.

Water top ups are done with tap water dechlorinated with Prime however i bought a RO system yesterday, pondering if i should do all WC's now with RO water...

I am feeding them RAC N-1 shrimp food

Sorry about the poor quality photos, they were taken on a phone attached to a cheap macro lens

 

[ineke]

Great to see you try again. They look nice quality shrimp for you to start with again. Tank looks great. Good luck with your breeding program.

[OzShrimp]

Welcome @chatony111  Got some nice looking shrimp mate, If your going to use RO water in your water changes you will need a TDS meter to ensure you have the tds in a good range that your CRS will like and also benefit from. 

My tap water has a tds of about 480 and my CRS slowly always died and would berry up but never saw shrimplets survive. Colony ended up dieing to nd then i swapped to RO water and tds of betweeo 150-170 and got a tank full of happy CRS for over a year now

Edited July 17, 2015 by OzShrimp

[GotCrabs]

Nice Crytals, what is the substrate? Is that Subwassertang you have there also? They'll love that stuff.

[chatony111]

I have aquasoil in there. And yes its Subwassertang and a native peacock moss!

[Disciple]

Welcome to the forum.

I hope you enjoy yourself here.

Edited July 19, 2015 by Disciple

[GotCrabs]

Welcome to the forum.

I hope you enjoy yourself here.

You hope himself here?

Edited July 19, 2015 by Disciple
huh?