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I imagine the new babies live off the tank biofilm for the first weeks at least and doubt they can manage ellet food at that age. The food that comes in pellets I smash up with a hammer, otherwise they all fight over it, they obviously make them in pellet form so it makes it easy to judge how much to use (ie 1 pellet per ?? shrimps) etc. There are specific baby shrimp foods, I use chi ebi ?? which is in powder form so I dip a pin in the water just the end 2mm or so, then into the powder (very briefly) then into the tank. Don't get too heavy handed with the food at this stage as I believe they only eat biofilm (usually the baby shrimp food isn't really food but promotes biofilm growth I think). Overfeeding can be worse than under feeding/ Simon

I almost forgot to post about the previous shrimplets, there were 6 in total, about 6mm each insize, and about the so call ghost white bee, haven't seen it now, so either it died, or as jayC mentioned, it changed color. I'm happy to say they are eating and doing well, all red and white. I will posted photos later on.

I intend to clean up the present tank, so I just purchased another tank yesterday, apparently these aqua soil is very limited in Hong Kong especial the ADA Arizona and the premium black, have to wait till mid to end of may, so I'm held back until I get these. I was thinking about the blue bolts, but they are too small and too early to mate, anyway time will tell.

LOL. I'm sure you will come up with another reason to get more.

What Simon said. If there are no other males apart from the Blue Bolts, then these offspring will be Michlings. I can see the need for yet another tank coming up

Ok so i didn't manage to get to B&Q (the hardware store) because of well life, however i did manage to get waterproof silicone bathroom sealant that is non toxic from a supermarket, they were £7 per bottle, but i checked their website and a bottle from them would cost £4.97. i have not however been able to make the Drip Acclimator Mk3 as i am waiting for the flow regulator i got from Amazon as they are apparently coming from China. This could however as noted before be optional and i could close the pipe down with a lighter to make work, i'll do this when i have the time. so i left the tank until yesterday when i checked TDS and it had gone up to 320 so i did 2No 10% - 15% water changes at 0TDS as recommended over the last couple of days using the specifically made Dripper set to 2 - 3 drips per second. i have now checked my water perimeters and they are as follows:- PH - 7 dKH - 4 dGH - 8 Temperature - 22C TDS - 281 NH4 - Unreadable N02 - Unreadable N03 - 15PPM P04 - 0.5PPM As i see it i can leave the tank a couple of days even with this level of Nitrate because its still below the threshold i have set, so come Wednesday or Thursday I'll know what to do. I will then do my next water change at 200TDS. My coverage of Duckweed isnt spreading as quick as it has previously so that is telling me my tank is maturing and i can start to remove it, although I'm going to keep a bit for the set up of the next tank. Although i haven't seen any dead shrimp im still only seeing 3 - 5 adult shrimp at any one time. Note i said adult, because i checked today and i noticed tiny 2mm - 3mm shrimp, see photo attached. The berried shrimp must be hiding in the plants. I have only counted 2 baby's at 1 time but my theory is id have a couple of dozen right? my girlfriend is elated with this news as she is now determined i don't need to buy more.