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ADA amazonia will take a while to start reducing the pH. Once the tank starts cycling you will see the pH start dropping. The murky water is normal with ada. It will eventually clear up.

Thank you @newbreed and @Disciple who knew what a bunch of witty and entertaining people we had here! I had a few great chuckles with my morning coffee the past week!

Thanks to @newbreed and everyone that participated. I really enjoyed the last couple pages for this comp! Great fun! Hopefully we can do this regularly!

I agree with you guys, that is why I enjoy this forum so much. I just wanted to warn against potentially creating a false impression of a safe environment on the forum compared to Gumtree. By sticking to the regular contributors on the forum who have been around a long time and asking a moderator for a reference for someone, you can save yourself from losing money, and being disappointed in a transaction.

SKF may feel like a community to you but once you have been here and active long enough it becomes more like a family :)

Here is another video of my old CRS tank. Sadly this one did crash in the end. I am reasonably certain it was because I started dosing with CO2. The driftwood I used to make the "tree" was also found. I did boil it but I am willing to be this also caused the tank some problems. Either way enjoy my old CRS tank! I kind of want to get CRS again and give it another try but I also really want Tibees... So hard to choose! (I might get both and aim for red tibees/pinto) Sorry for the music. It synced up so I couldn't resist.

Since you all seem to love videos and shrimp! Here is a bit of both! :D This is cheating a little since it was back when I was breeding these guys but you get the idea. I only had one female and when she molted it was ON! They males went nuts looking for her!

There is a very extensive list of natural shrimp foods pinned under food and nutrition thread. A lot of people had input into that list . Over the few years I have kept shrimp I have found there are few shrimp foods my shrimp really swarm over and I've tried a great variety. I find feeding natural foods like vegetables and leaves seems to satisfy them the most especially blanched mulberry leaves. I leave a leaf in each tank all the time and once a week try to feed a high protein food such as frozen blood worms or now the black worm pellets - thanks to Keenshrimp's great review- I also make a powdered food up of several sorts of commercial shrimp food crushed, crushed dried mulberry leaves, crushed bee pollen, crushed barley pellets, spirulina, barley grass powder, nettle powder plus a packet of boss baby powder just to make sure I have covered all the required nutrition - Jayc has also given a recipe for powdered food in the pinned thread. I feed a small amount of this powder daily especially when shrimplets are present. I use shrimp snow as well but I buy that in bulk as I have a large number of tanks. I do think we probably feed too much processed foods as I have a colony of Neos outside in a pond that rarely get fed , they live mostly on algae and any leaves that fall in the pond and they are thriving.

I have used what we call Taitibees to get these results. Tiger x TB then cross these babies back to each other , I added Snow Whites, CRS and more Taitibees.

On the use of breeding boxes, I keep my main colony in the tank and use breeder boxes to hold shrimp that are going to be sold or that are 'spares' in case of emergency (e.g. If a male dies, I have a replacement ready to go).

That's really disappointing. I've only been around for a year and a half and the regulars here seem very trustworthy to me. I've had nothing but positive experiences with perhaps a dozen different people here now. I imagine this person is someone who doesn't contribute often.

Dug out my real camera and extension tubes to get you some pictures of those random rili shrimp I am using to test the waters for my Caridina on the way! Some day I will get myself a real macro lens :( Messing with tubes, tripods, remote shutters, and needing to tweak the exposure after is just not worth it! What do you think the parentage of these shrimp was? or what even are they haha.

Well done Ron.

That's true Cornell. i always cycle with plenty of access to existing aged filter media available from one of my many tanks and canisters, so waiting a month for ADA to cycle is usually a con for me. But for someone starting out from scratch, ADA can be a good option. Then again adding ammonia manually is also an option.

I still think these shelters look like nudibranch eggs. :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wow stoked with that cheers guys and a massive thanks to Baz and Jamie for organising the comp and the prizes

I'm not 100% sure with pure Tigers but my love affair with F1 Tibees was for that very reason. They explored the tanks , even got out and went walk about until I sealed all exits. They are way more active than the other varieties and have fights over food or just because one is sitting where the other one wants to be! I also first witnessed the babies getting flicked away from food by the Tibees. As F1 Tibees are the first cross of a Tiger and a Bee shrimp I always thought the feistiness came from the Tigers! I just love them and now of course my pure Tigers too but I haven't noticed quite the same behaviour as with my first Tibees

Yeah, he told me he's on Centrelink and everything, so in a way I don't blame him if that's what he's doing. There was a time where a young me probably would have tried to get away with it, too.

Carbon rilis, crs love aussie black worms. So I tried a thawed bloodworm. They loved it too. Lol

I've been using some 30watt 6500K Landscape spotlights for two months. They seem to be growing my plants(and algae) pretty well, but I'm curious how they would compare to some LEDs made specifically for aquatic plants. Has anyone used these before?

I'm getting a new tank on Sunday for Free! Its gonna be my first real step in having a rack like yours. It was like a gift from the gods 40x40x40 just no stand to put it on but oh well super excited. Then i will transfer everything over. Those invisibulus plants are a pain in the ass, then my 6yo will have the kmart tank for a Betta. Shes super excited. Was keeping the new tank a secret but too excited lol

I have had tufts of BBA in my tank. They disappeared when I put Darwin Algae shrimp in. I split the males from the females as I cannot handle the girls being berried all the time and the larvae not surviving: I can report that both male and female inhabited tanks have been cleared of my tufts of BBA. I did not have a large amount of BBA, but now I have nothing. I would just like to add that I bought these guys from Dave at Aquagreen. The girls are very large shrimp.