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Always pleased to help anyone that I may be able too. A lot of posts are way beyond my experience or knowledge so I have to leave those to others! I expect there are more yellow babies alive than you know about as they would naturally hide when young. I remember when I transferred to the new tank and took out all the plants I had bout 100 babies but only saw about 10 at a time. Hope the neon transfer goes well. Simon

Im so pleased to see that all seems to be stablizing as well, thank you for all the help here. Yes i use the spreadsheet you gave for figuring out my water changes? And because of that now i am very clear of what i am doing. Its such a good way to keep track of what i did to the water and than the results. I am excited for tomorrow as the tetras will be going into the new tank! Sadly i cant really see the babies in the yellow neo tank. Just saw 2 came out to feed yesterday. The mortality was not good? Wondered if they all died or as what you mentioned they are just hiding? Well, heres to hoping! Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

Exciting news that the neons may be in their new home this weekend, hope that goes well and they will enjoy the new setup. Hope you are seeing some of the yellow babies you hatched. I have been doing my Taiwan Bee tank today so been filtering and mixing water. Sometimes I go over the desired TDS a bit but just to keep it tidy I put a little extra pure RO in the new water and that reduces it, little at a time until you get to the figure you are aiming for. If you still have the spreadsheet I downloaded you can tell on that what will happen, ie my tank (28L) this morning TDS 164, replaced 2L with new water of TDS 119, should make it TDS 160 when water mixed/finished later. I have been reading up on here and lots of people seem to think Taiwan Bee shrimps stop breeding during the winter. I haven't seen any new new babies so hopefully that is correct and that will then help with the over population temporarily anyway. Pleased to hear it is all going so well for you now. Simon

Hi simon! Yes all is going great! No dead shrimps and i think i am getting a hang on things over here? No deaths after water changes too! You know what? I think a part of the reason is the cooler temps now that i have the ac switched on 24hrs. They really do better without the heat. My tetra tank finished cycling today! Will do a big water change tmwr. Noted on the way you prepare water for the tanks. So if i go over a little too much, i can just dilute it with more ro water correct? I just bought a cannister of salty shrimp gh+ Will finish my shirakura gh fluid first than will switch over to salty bee. These are exciting times! Yep will also keep a few bottles of pure ro water around for water top ups, great idea! Im just playing around with the ro unit abit as i still have 4 cartons of distilled water left. Just wanna get an idea of how you guys prepare your ro water. Thank you simon as always for the detailed input! Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

I assume all is going well with the new setups? I would use TDS meter (thats how I do it) to get the near number as it is a lot easier than trying to get a GH and the salty shrimp must be balance for both anyway. If you are making a small amount of new water you could try the wet a pin/stick method (as previously mentioned for food). I use the dennerle equivalent as it is much simpler being liquid drops. You will soon get to know how much you need (I know 1 drop of my stuff is roughly TDS25).If you go over you can always dilute it with a bit more pure RO water. JayC previously mentioned a tap on the RO devises which adjusts KH if I remember correctly so you will need to have that open or closed depending on which you want for the different types of shrimp I assume? You will need pure RO for topping up evaporated water between water changes etc and I just keep a couple of 1L used water bottles next to the tank with that in. Good luck with it and I hope all is going well. Simon

I have some high tech tanks and monte carlo is the only one who im struggling with. Thanks Ineke for the infos! Sent from my iPhone using Shrimp Keepers Forum

Thanks Ineke and SpringWaterShrimps. Going to go get me some Monte Carlo.

Hi Macks -you can successfully keep the two types together but you should keep your water parameters at CRS requirements. The Neos will adapt quite easily- they might slow down breeding initially but generally pick up very quickly. The CRS will not thrive in Neo WP's -they might survive but generally it's not recommended. I have posted about this recently on another thread but will show my mixed tank .

@Jayc -yes it is monte carlo and I don't know what high demand means but mine gets very little extra anything. I have a special plant LED that is on about 6-7 hours most days except in very hot weather. I rarely dose fertilizer and don't use CO2. I have about a third of my tank covered in it from 2 pots bought some time ago.

It really looks like montecarlo. But it is a pretty high demand plant. Sent from my iPhone using Shrimp Keepers Forum

It's probably a natural cycle. The females need a rest, maybe. Winter is the time to feed them up with lots of protein (frozen Blood worms), so they have the strength for the warmer seasons.

Hi there ... Same happening to me.. all my shrimps stoped in the winter, not the sullawesi cardinals... I try diferents temps , more hours light , but not see shrimp affect of that? I have about 80 crs and no babies.. not baried.. Now started the neocaridina to get eggs , also tigers... I cant understant the reason,why thats happen... As i saw they stoped from november to april...

I have been breeding shrimp since 2012 and every winter my breeding stops usually for a few months. Every tank is the same and I have 12 tanks. 11 are in an air conditioned room and 1 is in another room but is run with a chiller. I have a mix of natural lighting and artificial lighting, heaters are set to,23-24 and I don't do anything different at that time of year. Quite a few other breeders I know of here in Australia have the same issue. I don't worry about it and think its a great time to rearrange tanks , top up soils etc as there aren't tiny babies to catch out. I also like to think it gives the females a break. Even my hybrids stop breeding and they breed very well the rest of the year. Perhaps they still notice the change of seasons even though they are inside.

That's an easy worry to take care of... sell the excess shrimp! Then you can go buy more different kinds of shrimps... As to your actual question... I suspect the answer would depend on the conditions your shrimp experience, especially temperatures. I've heard some peoples' shrimps don't breed at all or as well during certain months. Which months these shrimp keepers are talking about varies (some have low winter output, some low summer outputs).