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May be I should leave it how it is, here is my tank. It's a 16 L setup.

thanks, and a happy new year to you.

Im sure everything will be fine! Fancy equipment! I dont have half as awesome of equipments as you do! My co2 setup is semi high tech (neo co2) coz i just want good growth on quite basic plants. Wish you luck that everything will get resolved(im sure it will) Peace and love for the new year! Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

Happy New Year to you also! I would say you are doing well if only the one has died in the new yellows tank as I always loose 1 or 2 when I get a new batch. It may be one of the orange??? If so it has done you a favour as one less to sort out when they get old enough to (cross) breed? Which tank do you consider your 'main' tank, is that the crystal tank? Sometimes shrimps die a while after a problem but it may have been weakened/sick by the previous event when the others died due to the heat etc! Keep plodding on with getting the right water parameters and then when it is steady look forward to getting a few new ones, always exciting and fun. Fingers crossed that the rest survive without any further problems but it is always safer to get the tanks right before putting the shrimps in the tank. Simon

Thanks for the comment, I have had the tank for about 4-5 months now, I only turn on the skimmer few hours a day normally, but keep it off now until the babies are at least 6-7mm long, most of those shrimps you see in the tank, about 20 are actually babies from my blue shrimps, I have a Fluval C2 hang on filter which keeps the water surface moving, I also have a small low power sun sun hang on fliter which is on few hours a day, my UV light is in that filter. The Co2 I use is a intense and is a solenoid, every thing is control from a WIFI power strip though timer or manual control using a app on a smartphone. The light I use is the Fluval plants Nano 3.0 and has a sunset and dawn feature.

Beautiful setup you have! Is this a new setup? Im not sure about the surface skimmer though. Dont think its quite baby shrimp safe though i know the water surface is gonna be sparkly and clean. Otherwise, i have read it can suck babies into it. You may put a fine mesh over it but that would render it inefficient. To take care of the oily film, i find increasing surface agitation from the filter or an air stone to move the water quicker into the filter works. Oil skimmers are abit dangerous. Otherwise that is a nice tank! So this is what i do, initially when i was using a sponge filter like you(cant really see, or is that a foam over the intake of a hob filter?), so i would find the dead spot from the top(water area not moving) i would put the air stone over there, so when the bubbles rise, the water is moved and than the filter can get the water there. You wanna form a circle current (at least thats what i call it), doing the airstone will move the water and if you adjust the filter intake strength accordingly, you can actually see the film disappear quite quickly from the top. Its unavoidable especially in a planted tank i think(the film) Especially if the co2 system is non solenoid regulated(diy co2 setup), you need the surface agitation at night else carbonic acid can build up in the tank. Shrimps love oxygen thats what i observed. *love the moss structures* looks adorable Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

I see Well, if the problem is not too bad than perhaps you might wanna give it some time? As you already have a snail, it will get to it sooner or later. Amanos are great algae eaters but they are not so great for a tank with neos or caridinas. (Any expert please correct me if i am wrong) On a side, algae is not so bad. It shows your tank is alive. If its a shrimp tank, i always have this idea they are somewhat beneficial for them as they have more surface area to graze on. They also eat algae just that they eat selected algae only and mostly biofilm which will grow pretty well when you got algae on. (From what i observed, again i may be wrong) so long as its not black bush algae i think its pretty alright. #teamalgae lol hahaha. Happy new year Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

Thanks for the reply, I have a few algae on the leaves of the plant, and whiles I also have one Horned nerite snails, I wanted to try the Amano shrimps, as I heard they are good with algae, I don't have much algae, as I have a UV light which helps out.

Happy new year simon! Day 5 today and NO DEAD SHRIMPS in the yellow tank! I have a tiny pestle and mortar and have crushed up all the pellets that i have! Excellant idea you gave me for the storage(test strip container) those are so clean inside, is airtight and yep, i keep the containers after it is finished! Thank you for the idea! Yep i manage to see the 2 babies every once in awhile. They hide very well. One is yellow but i think its considered inferior(dont know about colour grading) only a spot of yellow at the head the rest of the body is translucent. The other one is looking kind of orange actually. Heres the sad news however, i just lost a crystal in the main tank after a water change of 1litre yesterday. It was the biggest crystal of the 4 remaining so im not sure if its time to go (age) or water issues. I think after water change lessons from you and jayc, i have so far tether the waters to nice levels very slowly weekly and only slow dripping methods as usual. Just took the results fr the main tank: Tds 195 Ph 6.4 Kh 2-3 Gh 5 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 15 Ammonia less than 0.05 Temp however, 29°c, someone went to switch my ac off when i went out, lost my cool:( Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

Hello kms, If i am not mistaken, it is best not to. Horned nerite snails are a much safer option for your algae problem. They wont reproduce as well. (Using them in my tank and with awesome results) Amano shrimps can be quite aggressive towards ornamental shrimps, cannot be kept together. Furthrmore you got babies in the tank, they are too precious to be eaten. Cheers. Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

It is much easier to hammer the food when it is first bought and before the packet is opened so it doesn't go all over the place? I remember it took some hammering though as some are very tough! I then keep it all mixed together in an old plastic container with flip top (I think it had ammonia test strips in originally) and dip an old shrimp lolly stick (or pin, or straightened out paper clip I use in the other tank for nano fish food for the fish) into the tank (only about 4mm) back into the food then back into the tank - all quite quickly so not too much food gets picked up, and as the 5 different foods are all in the container they probably get some of each, but different proportions each time. I use this same dip a stick method for the chi ebi, bacter ae and beta glucan as well and it seems to be working well for me so far! The general belief seems to be feed all foods less than the manufacturers recommend and the sticks are a set size usually for ?recommended number of shrimps? so makes everything easy to calculate (that is probably why they make them like that), but as you know if you put just the one lump in the tank they will just squabble over it so best to put a few smaller bits of total about half the recommended quantity in (that's my theory anyway) so they all get some without fighting each other as much! With bigger tanks I guess it doesn't matter as they probably have hundreds of shrimps so you would then use many pads/sticks anyway. Hope day 3 is going well with the newbies? Have you seen either of the 2 baby orange shrimp? Simon