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Great to see more people trying the zebras. @fishmosy and @Paul Minett may be able to give you some suggestions.

Hello, I've been breeding different shrimp for a year or so and last month upgraded to some native zebras :) they are just so nice looking I couldn't resist, so I have a colony of 23, just in a tank with crushed black Quartz gravel a small piece of wood with plants and heaps of floating plants and such. the ph of tap water here is well over 8 so I'm using raintank water from a large 2-3000L plastic tank out the back. Parameters are: Tds 70ppm (forgot to write the most important part lol) ph 7.7 gh 53ppm kh 17ppm or less 0 nitrite and it's a slight tanin color. ive set up 2x 20L tanks with cycled filter media, sponge filters and "kaito" aqua soil a few weeks back, just using the rainwater. Now the tanks have a ph of 5.1 and basically same everything else, 0 nitrite. So is this good parameters for breeding zebras? If so, how long should I take to acclimate them to the softer water, like a few hours or days? When I put rainwater in (7.7) for water changes the ph swings to about 6 for a day or so which I don't think is good, but there's nothing in the tanks yet and I change most of the water trying to combat the even more rapid buffering effect the aqua soil has in the first few weeks. i usually drip half a bucket in through the hob filter over a few hours in the tank they are in right now.(40L tank) And I've added alder cones to start lowering the ph a bit getting ready for the switch. any advice to making these guys happy would be appreciated. :) cheers

Been so busy, a few updates to the tapatalk plug-in have come out. Just updated to the latest version. Changes since last update:

Doesn't everyone keep their shrimp colonies in 8x2x2 tanks ?

Next time take the driveto pickup from jc12 option. You missed out on raiding his shrimp collection !! At least you might have been able to buy some of jc12.

You might need a permit other than a fishing permit, though I can't expand on this. Ohio seems to have permits for possessing/buying/selling native fish/crustaceans/mollusks which is completely separate from a fishing permit. (It's not clear to me if this permit is needed just want to keep and admire native animals, the code seems to be aimed at large scale aquaculture, but has bits in it that make it seem like it covers hobbyists as well) I dunno how whichever part of Canada you're in does things, but it's probably worth a call to your fish/wildlife division to find out the specifics.

So I have just finished wiring the night lighting, Sump on opposite cycle of course ...