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ive never heard of this, im going to say no its not normal for the ph to rise when higher temps my only guess is the ADA Malaya has been used for to long and has no more effect on the ph, and the water your adding when you do a water change has higher ph, resulting in your higher ph

Ditto here but with the Mosura Eros product. I used it once upon a time, and I still have the bottle. Yes, I saw some moulting and some berried shrimps, but would I have got the same result if I didn't use it??? What made me stop was the fact that I could not find any information on it's ingredients. Apart from chitin being an ingredient list. After stopping its use, my shrimps kept on moulting and berrying up without artificial help. I'm cautious adding anything into the tank when I don't know what the ingredients are. Funny thing is Chitin (pronounced Ky-tin) is derived from the shells (exoskeleton) of other shrimp/crustaceans. Taking a sniff of my Mosura Eros, it smells like ... Vinegar !!?? surely not. There might be a place and time for this product. Like if I ever separate 1x male and 1x female specifically for line breeding. And I see the female saddled but not yet berried and carrying eggs under the swimmerettes. A more targeted use rather than randomly dosing the whole tank.

Old fashion standard soap with out to much perfume works on Shrimp (Macros), Scatts and some fish, but there are a lot of things that work better. Nearly any thing has potential as bait, some work and some are out standing, soap is on the lower end of the scale, Where you place your trap has a huge influence on what and how much you catch. Not a lot of use putting the trap on the bottom when you want surface fish and where the water runs into a pool is 200% better than where it runs out of the pool. Light sticks at night work on every thing including Shrimp. Bob

I have followed Squiggs DIY thread in the library using irrigation pipe and it works a treat. http://shrimpkeepersforum.com/forum/index.php/page/articles.html/_/documentation/diy/diy-air-system-r29 I use an LP40. I run around 20 sponge filters. But this air blower is quite a noisy beast, wouldn't be wonderful inside the house. It was suggested to me in the past to run 3l per minute per tank. Following the DIY thread, I also leave a couple of taps open on my system to act as relief valves. To eliminate the noise of these, I have run air hose from the tap and down behind some of the tanks. Still an open connection but no extra noise. With this type of system you can add new connections whenever you need. It makes life easy when you run external breeder boxes etc.

Saul Whatever you do, over engineer your main pipe that all the 6mm air lines come from, regardless of what you will be told, 25mm pipe will act like a compressor tank and give even flow all around, the other side of it is, it won't flog you pump out so quickly. I like 25mm white polly it is easy to work in and you can use garden irrigation 6mm fittings for the airline, thread one end and nob the other, to make a threaded hole use a self tapping screw that is the same thread and size, cut the screw head off and use it in a cordless drill, makes a perfect hole to screw the fitting in to, one more tip, have the compressor pipe higher than the tanks, that way in a power out you don't get syphon back to your pump. OH clear poly glue is AOK as you don't get to the pressures that need the strong glues and the clear wont show up the messy gluing if you are anything like me LOL I have heard silly things in the past like no using big main pipes because the pump won't work?? It leads to the pump working too hard and shortening its life I have built lots of shops and fish rooms so any questions fire away. Pump what ever is recommended as you wont be flogging it with that set up Bob