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Update. Well the CBS tank is now decidely CRS. Oh well, at least my average grade is getting better. Think I'm about an A average now, up from B. Only two generations.

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Decided to try out an alternative biofilm recipe. Really simple, just egg white and spirulina (although in this case I used a powder form of some marine microalgae). Mix it up and coat onto rocks. Leave to dry in the sun and thats it. Heres an example. My snail seemed to like it. Yet to try it on the shrimp but will let you know how it goes.

Some shots from today. The eggs on these headwater shrimp are huge. Almost definite that they hatch as mini adults. Some cool algae. Decided to add some to my tank (as shown here) to see how it goes.

it is amazing that I haven't had problems over the last 12 months. The canister was on my TB tank and although the thermometer was reading warm it didn't seem to worry the shrimp but now i have moved the canister to a different tank plus have added the temp controller which hopefully is fairly accurate and that's how I picked up the extra heat in that tank. I've tried several of the controllers and they all read the same so have to accept they are right. Alan is still a bit under the weather but he has promised to add the fans to the controller over the next day or so then I can stop worrying as the fans work really well and should cancel out the heat from the canister. The room air conditioner will be a split system reverse cycle so I can do away with the heaters as well taking another worry out of the system. I only have a few cherry tanks now so really need to have a more stable environment in my room.

Awesome stuff so there is soon to be a new thread? Getting onto the rack 2 lol

Oooooh, more CRS & more tanks, sounds like a good plan to me.

LOL I just read your post on your thread before I read mine! Yes it's great when you get back into it especially when things haven't gone the way it should have. Now all my culls from my " Rainbow" tank are no longer taking up space I can get back into serious stuff!