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Chlorine aka bleach should kill everything, something in the order of 20 ppm. That said, I've heard stories with MTS where they have survived bleach baths, possibly by closing their shells up tight. Possible. Which snails are you dealing with? Might be best to ditch the substrate and everything else you don't hold dear, give the tank a good clean with bleach, rinse well several times, then setup using new substrate ect. Everything going back into the tank needs to be thoroughly checked for snails and treated. You could try potassium permanganate (Condy's crystals) but some mosses can be sensitive to it. Actually the first thing I should have asked is, are you sure you can't save the tank? The algae and the snail outbreaks sound like the tank is being overfed. Can you move the shrimp to a new tank, and then try to rescue this one without having to worry about killing your shrimp? If so, here is my suggestion. Move only the shrimp to the new tank. No other mosses, plants ect.. Then stop feeding the tank. This includes leaves like IAL and veges like Kale. Use a snail trap (and manual removal) to get the snails out (they will go more readily to the trap because you aren't providing any other food), use a blackout or dose with Aquagreens dinospit (glutaldehyde) to kill the algae combined with daily manual removal and large water changes. Consider also siphoning the substrate, depending of course on the type of substrate that you have. This will be a difficult process over a couple of weeks to get the tank back to where you could consider putting the shrimp back in. However a little effort every day will see it through. Essentially its reseting the balance of the tank. Alternatively you could even leave the shrimp in, and focus on fixing the problems by implementing solutions over time (weeks). The first thing to do then would be to stop feeding for around a week. This includes leaves and kale ect. So if you have IAL, take it out. During this time, use a snail trap and manual removal to reduce the numbers of snails. Remove some algae manually, a bit every day, even if you can only get to it 5minutes every day. And importantly, do water changes. I think 2-3 times within that week, around 10-20% each time, possibly more if you are keeping RCS or most natives, but definitely not more if keeping CRS ect. Then after the week is up, you can begin feeding again, but only a fraction of what you did in the past. Say, 1/10 of before. The shrimp should beat the snails to the food. Keep trapping every day and removing the algae manually until you can't see it anymore. But most important, keep up the water changes. Only increasevthe amount of food if the shrimp are consuming it all within minutes, before an snails get to it. A feeding dish may be really useful at this time. The number one thing to carefully consider (whether you go reset or repair) is to try to understand what happened to get the tank to where it is now? Are you overfeeding? Were water changes regular? Did you experience a decline in shrimp numbers but keep feeding the same amount of food? Are you dosing fertilisers? If so, how much? Are you running CO2? The reason why I say this is because if you don't figure out what went wrong, its likely to happen again. Best of luck.

Hi all, I had a pretty busy year start and after that went for holiday, and I forgot about updating everyone. (^_^")y In the end, I decided on these shrimps: They are in the tank for 1.5 months (from 10mm size grow till breeding age now). ^^

My CRS just spawn and my tank is full of babies... I tried to count them but after 50 I stopped. To much hiding places in my tank. I hope all this babies will grow up healthly. The older have about 2 weeks now.

Might be time to double check your water parameters, just in case!

Yesterday I received my package from Shrimp Daddy. I had been looking forward to trying his products since reading about them a few months ago. Unfortunately the Department of Agriculture decided that they needed to destroy everything in the box without giving me the option of sending it back to Shrimpy Daddy. I informed Shrimpy Daddy what had happened and the first thing he did was offer to refund me back my money. I did not believe he needed to refund me anything as it was not his fault for the products being destroyed and told him not to worry but he is a very generous guy and has decided to refund my money anyway. Not only did he do this but while on his snowboarding holiday, he took some time to warn other potential buyers about the issue. All I can do is say thank you very much and let other people know of your kindness and generosity. Cheers, Baz

No worries, mate. The reason I am selling my products to allow me to send my products to help more people (used to send to people for free and only affordable to send to a handful of people), but not really earning money. ;) LOL!!! Are you going to comment about I keep giving free stuffs and I will go out of business soon again? LOL!!!

The only reason I asked is because I have seen a Vfd pump trip out a 10 amp breaker .....not fuses! Because they drop the voltage and earth out. That however was a much larger pump and In hindsight I'm pretty sure a small pump wouldn't do this. Vfd's pumps are great and are super efficient. The cost of the initial purchase would be paid back very quickly. I have installed lots of them. And I think they are an excellent investment.

thanks for encouragement and also thanks for the tip from fishmosy. Im going to have to move again in 1 or 2 years so ill plan better then! I just didnt want to spend the time to catch them by hand esp. the shrimplets and I didnt trust myself to tip the tanks so I used this method instead. it was nervewracking but there was no spillage and no casualties from the move still - fingers crossed!! my only worry is if I had to break suddenly it would not be good! all the aquariums I use are second hand btw and also so are most of my canisters and all my lighting etc. these windows are north facing and this will be a learning experience managing the use of sunlight and artificial light to best effect for plant/moss growth. the sunlight doesn't allow for good viewing of the shrimps sadly :-( also it will be tricky and costly managing temperatures in summer due to the fact I dont use a rack setup and could never afford chillers for all the tanks but it is only a very small skinny room to air-condition. id like to invest in a much newer and nicer looking aquarium setup for my lounge room one day if all goes well :-) so far the hobby for me has been a lot of fun and also a learning experience/stepping stone towards my longterm of goal of doing aquaponics - im hoping to run a system using marron ! wonder if anyone here has grown or even bred marron before and what was their experience like??? I learnt a little about it in tafe but I couldn't complete the course due to family reasons. id really love to get any feedback / tips / solutions about how to manage the sunlight and also how to deal with the temperature problem I will face come next spring/summer!

Ladies & Gentlemen, Weighing in at a staggering 45.95 KG, 122cm long, 60 cm deep and 35cm tall. (I don't actually know how much it weighs but it makes my intro seem better) Let me introduce to you the MONSTROSITY! As you have worked out I was able to pick up my new tank today from the LFS. I think they did a really nice job and it looks awesome. Not as cool as all the racks everyone else has been putting together but hopefully this will help me go to the next level in my shrimp keeping. I really want to get a colony of Blue Bolts & OEBT's and establishing some of the different colours & patterns that my Rili's have been throwing out. A little up date from my last post. I had tried to contact the tank builder to see if I could change the plans to incorporate a sump but unfortunately I was not quick enough to make the changes I wanted without incurring additional costs as they had already started. I think trying to incorporate so many different ideas from different shrimp keepers was too much to handle for me, I should have just stuck to my original plan lol but I think this will still work fine. I should have just paid the extra costs and listened to Shrimpy Daddy's advise (sorry) lol. Over the last month I have been buying all sorts of bits and pieces from different SKF sponsors to prepare for this new tank. I still need to get a few more things but by next week I should have the tank flooded and the cycle started. Over the next week i hope to do some posts of putting the cabinet together and setting up the tank & getting it cycled. I hope you enjoyed the pics and if there you have any feedback or question do not hesitate to post. I wanna start a new Journal because I want a cool journal name like "Shawshrimp Rackdemption" or "Pandoras Rack" Lol Cheers!

Haha yep red ruby jewels for her!

Little miss 4 sounds like she has expensive bling bling taste in shrimp.

They're everywhere!! Congrats Jen!! Sure it's not 124?? May have to recount!! Lol

I counted 123 CRS shrimplets today!! Everytime I look in their tank I almost have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming. I've even spent a few nights sleeping on the couch this week as I've fallen asleep while I've been watching them, lol.