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Hi there.... I read some interest topic here. I am a plant and shrimp keeper. Im running 12 tanks now. I keep Snowball Crs neocaridina ( yellow, red, orange, blue) Sulawesi dennerli I saw a lot photos. :) My 180lt dutch tank. :) Red cherry , rummynose and bnp. A 10lt with red chery , without filter and heat. Just growing plants. 90lt Sullawesi cardinals 30 lt topaz blue 30 lt crs tank1 30lt crs tank2 30 lt neo Yellows 30lt snowballs 30 lt orange neo And a some videos... Thats all ... :)

Thanks to @Disciple for all the shrimp that arrived safe and sound last week with so many super-generous freebies and up-sizes. I was excited enough to receive them, and finding the extra and bigger tigers was just awesome. They're all growing fast, especially the chocs, and a little red shrimplet stowaway is still going strong too! The light blue tigers were sussing out the yellow neos straight after joining the tank... ... but pretty soon they decided that lowly neos would no longer be permitted on the driftwood and started patrolling and doing sinister poses. They are super-cool to watch. They've done a lot of colouring up since then but any more photos have to wait until this weekend when I get my camera back!

I had another silly old woman moment yesterday - well Sunday but I noticed yesterday! I am getting some new shrimp so needed to clean out a tank for them. I caught all the shrimp and hunted down the babies . My shrimp must know when I'm going to catch them because they always have their babies the night before!!! Anyway I took everything out of the tank except substrate and most of the water, gave the substrate a big stir and pooped 2 power filters into the tank. Once that was clear I topped up the substrate with a thin layer of new substrate and put the power filter back on - everything going to plan so far. Next I went to my RO reserve which I keep outside under a verandah. We have had very hot weather in Adelaide for weeks so the water was about 30 c . I put 20 litres of straight RO into the tank at 30 because it was empty of shrimp - are you still with me? Then I needed to up the TDS as the new shrimp are kept in a much higher TDS than mine. I usually add the Salty Shrimp in the bucket and mix it well before adding to the tank but I needed to adjust the whole tank so added it to the tank. So so far , I've swirled the substrate = probable ammonia spike, added warm water, added straight RO water, added straight Salty Shrimp = would or should equal dead shrimp if there were any in there - but I had caught them all hadn't I? Once that had settled and the filters cleaned I was happy enough to add the plants and rocks back into the tank . THEN yesterday giving the tank a final water test and checking that the tank was ready for the shrimp that were arriving the next day -today - I noticed colour and movement swimming on the substrate and sure enough there were tiny tiny baby shrimp in the tank. I doubt they were in the moss as I had that in a separate container and had given it a good clean and checked the water the Moss had been in finding nothing. I don't think they were in the sponge filters because I had taken them out several times to give them a good rinse in the old tank water so they must have been on the substrate . Luckily I had been very gentle putting that in as I didn't want to stir up the dirt from the new substrate. So yesterday I caught out about 20 babies and this morning another 10 , there may well be more but I don't want to move the rocks this close to the new shrimp arriving. I will just have to try and catch them as they grow so I don't mix them up with the new shrimp. I breed them tough!

No, that's just wrong. Epsom Salt is fine, as it is just Magnesium sulphate. But Baking soda is not right. That's sodium bicarbonate. It will send your KH and pH soaring sky high. Besides that, baking soda is used for ... baking. It usually has a reaction agent (usually something acidic like cream of tartar) to activate the rising agent. Bi Carb Soda on the other hand is sodium bicarbonate without the cream of tartar. Bicarb Soda is usually used to raise the KH and pH. But if you don't have any remineralising products on hand, then mixing rainwater with tap water is a safer method. But what ratio to mix will need you to experiment. My tapwater is different to your tap water. To get pH 7.0, I need 75% rainwater to 25% tapwater in a 10L bucket (for example). Thanks for the plug ?

thanks admin. i currently in reading anything bout shrimps before starting one. will be asking a lot if starting to build shrimp thanks.

Wow!!!...That's all I can think to say LOL

Tested my tap water last night. 7.8, that is my normal pH.

Next generation babies showing real improvement and yes the big cull was definitely worth it. Still a lot of work to do!