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This is the new and improved steriliser. its basically just 40mm pvc pipe end cap with spacers made from 40mm pipe. 2 wires connected to mesh close together in the water. Splits the H20 on a molecular level, pretty cool for how simple it is. Normal copper wire will work but it will dissolve within a few minutes, ive just used stainless steel BBQ skewers, these also worked well to just hang the whole unit from the side of the tank, and the stainless steel mesh from a tea strainer. Then air line tubing to prevent the rods touching, and some heat shrink to hold it all together, You just have to do tight connections like unless you have a SS welder, ? I'm just using 12v DC so in theory I could easily add a fader to control the intensity of the steriliser just like the fancy ones. I might do an actually write up on it later or something. For now I'm getting this bad boy in my zeb tank. its working great, now how long should I have it on for? Haha I was thinking starting at 15min per hour. Lol yeah it's pretty damn ghetto. Cheers

That looks great. But step by step instructions for us dummies would be great, including what sort of power supply. I don't get how you have connected up the wires in the pvc pipe. Doesn't it cause an electric current in the water?

The higher ph and TDS is of course the better environment for Neos, I was just letting you know it is possible. I found that once I had mulberry leaves available constantly my baby survival rate sky rocketed. I can't give any other explanation for my success. Recently I have been adding trace elements and minerals plus bacteria daily and this too has been a big success. I have shrimp numbers that are way too high now so I am catching out females to stop breeding. Never thought I would be complaining that I have too many shrimp LOL.

When I was breeding Neos - I had very large colonies of Black/ Chocolate, Rilis, Reds, Blues - I bred them all in soft water. I never had any issues with survival rates in fact they bred extremely well and were of a very high standard. The main thing is to ensure you have moss for them to hide in, feed lots of powdered food and keep stable parameters. I have bred them in ph of 6 , GH 6. KH 1-2 TDS 150-160. I kept 10 tanks of mixed bee and Neos for several years I used RO water with GH+ and benibachi substrate. I also used mineral powder weekly , biozyme twice a week, 5-10% water change. As always I believe stability is the main thing we need to look at . Check water parameters before adding to tank, keep temp of new water close to temp of tank, good quality foods.

This has now been rolled out.

You NEED to share how to make this!

Increase the GH. If you can't increase KH, best to try increasing GH by 1 or 2 points, depending on how low it is.