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All my tanks are around PH 5 even with only about 2 cm of substrate. Although I don't breed Neos inside anymore I had good success with my colonies of Neos at this ph. The main thing is to acclimatise slowly over 3-4 hours. Removing the IAL can help as they do reduce PH. The fulfil grains also reduce ph and if you are using RO water with Salty Shrimp they fulvic grains last much longer than when using tap water as they don't have to buffer so much. The main thing with any shrimp is stability - once they adjust to a new water parameter most shrimp will thrive as long as there are no big swings. When you add things like ph up or other ph raising chemicals you can get big swings which are much worse than low ph.

Couple of iPhone pics to keep the ball rolling I've spotted a bunch of fresh moults in the panda section, so happy they are liking the parameters. new additions acclimatizing WR & BB CRS gorging on mulberry Leaf & crack

i was bleaching plants last night in a 10:1 solution and chucked it in there.... it happily swam about, so i crushed it a washed it down the drain!

Seiryu rock will increase pH. If you add a very small rock it will increase your pH slowly and buffer to a certain point.

Emoji's are generally better than Emoticons as they are text rather than image files. They are also platform independent so should work across all platforms and apps that support them. Not all work (e.g. flags) but most are ok. ? ?‍? ? ? ⛹️

I'll post my pictures in groups from different months so you can see how the juveniles are growing and colouring up. So here is November 2014