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Hello, So today while visiting a friend who works at my local fish shop I could help but buy a couple of Bettas they had there, we've been talking lately about Bettas they plan to breed. I've got them in they 5-bay I sumped over my shrimp tank till I set them up a better tank, lol.

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

Sad to hear that mate. My juvies do pretty well on the Boss baby powder so I'm not sure whats going on there. Do you have plenty of biofilm in your tank? The rush to eat bloodworm and dead tank mates indicates to me that there isnt a lot of other food around.

So what started as a few tanks and a sump is evolving into a shrimp room ... In the process of preparing and drilling several 3fters, the rack is up and a chiller has been added. Once I have some free time on my hands the tanks will go in.

You are welcome @Pedro Lopes, the spinach sounds like a good idea as a weekly meal option. You are essentially only feeding 10 adult shrimp as the babies do not count. Usually, depending on the manufacturer, a 7mm square food pad for shrimp feeds 30 shrimp. Shrimp have a 4-6 hour digestion, so it is ideal to feed twice a day by dividing their daily ration in two parts. Any green- based shrimp food will do like EbitaBreedQuattro or EbitaBreed Spinach tab, Dennerle Shrimp King food etc to offer them variety in nutrition in their captive environment. Spinach is a great food, but does not contain enough variation in nutrients long term as an only food source if your colony expands. Shrimp are mineral intensive and need organically complexed mineral sources from a wide variety of foods. Happy shrimping??