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We really need to know the water parameters before we can give you advice. Ideally, you should have taken a reading of the original water parameters the shrimp came in. And compared it to your own tank parameters. Otherwise how would you know an hour and a half of drip acclimating is enough. The water in your tank can be on the opposite direction to the water the shrimp came in.

Best way to do this with a new tank ... a day or two after confirming that the tank is cycled (no ammonia and no nitrites), change 90-99% of the water. Refill with RO water (ideally), or distilled water in your case. Remineralise the water to the ideal parameters for your shrimp. Adjust pH, KH and GH. Wait for temps to stabilise and reach what you set, if you use a heater or chiller let it run until your temps get to your target. Measure one last time to ensure you are not detecting ammonia or nitrites. Now, pour out the water in your pail, leaving 2-3 litres (careful to not pour out your shrimp!). Drip the new tank water into the pail. The plan is to acclimatise the shrimp to the new tank water, which has hopefully been set to the ideal parameters. Drip in the same amount (2-3 litres) into the pail. The water in the pail will now be very close to the tank. You can retest the water in the pail to check how far off it is compared to your tank water. If you are happy, move the shrimp into the tank. Otherwise drip more water for a bit longer.

Hello everyone! I bought some pintos, and i did put them with my other bees (some panda, some king kong, some blue bolts). However, i can't seem to find if pintos do breed true (in that case, should i separate them? or will those mix with the others to make cool new paterns, colors, etc?) I have a hard time figuring what bee breed true if any. I've read that bee are a mutation of CRS/CBS, but do they produce similar offsprings or is it more random as an interaction of multiple genes? Thanks in advance for the help!

Taiwan Bees are a cross of Crystal and Tiger shrimp Panda, King Kong and Blue Bolts are all supposedly the result of taking Taiwan Bees and breeding them back to Crystals. A Pinto is supposedly a mutli-gen Taiwan Bee Taiwan Bee, Tibee and TB may all be interchangeable. (if I'm understanding all this correctly) So yes, they will all mix. As to whether or not Pinto's breed true... that I don't know. Since they are mixed shrimp, you are likely to get mixed results. If you cull/remove the type you don't want and keep the type you do want together, thus selectively breeding them, you'll have a higher chance of keeping the type you want to breed going strong in the colony.

Hello guys. I'd like to share some of my Pinto mix. Hope that U like them. Plis tell me aswell should I start as a part of my chanel english version :)