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Health thing is long over due, its a congenital heart defect that i was told as a child i was going to have the surgery at 18 and im now almost 29. the Procedure im having is called the Ross Procedure and it has a 98.5% survival ratio and thats with people who are in their 60's and 70's who usually need this done and the doctor said because i have such physical ability for someone with my condition i probably have about 99.9% chance. but i will be in hospital for at least 2 weeks at the Royal Brompton. i would like these tanks set up before i actually go in but yeah im limited in what i can do water change wise. Even though i only do 2 liters at a time, 20 odd trips taking 20 mins a go each to do is a killer. I currently have 3 adult platy's (1 male 2 female, the parents) and approximately 7 - 10 baby's. im thinking of moving the males into the new tank once the tanks reading 0 everything ammonia related. I'm actually trying to breed a new colouration in this specific genus of Platy (Viriatus) and im starting to get results but i need to get a new male in order to stop in-breeding at the moment that will cause deformity's in the fish. the 'old' tank will then move into the lounge as a cull tank for me to sell things on Gum tree to the locals. I'd give them away for free but my theory is if i do that people will just get them to feed to their cats and things so im going to ask for a nominal charge of like 50p to £1 for each fish/shrimp

Wow sorry to hear the news about your health. At least your shrimp are doing well. I would come over to help you, but you are a bit too far away.

ok so, yes i used De-chlorinater dont worry. i also only really did about a third of the scapping as im interchanging decor. When it comes to doing the 90% water change unfortunately my health has deteriorated and i got told on Thursday i need quite invasive life extending surgery and i dont even really think i should have filled the 42 liters ive got in there at the moment let alone doing it all over again, so that kind of just leaves me to wait until im getting 0 readings on the nitrate cycle and add fish. then a month after that add Shrimp. whilst checking conditions and doing water changes i can. also yes, i last counted 36 baby shrimps of varying size and 3 adults... i think the adults are doing nothing at all at the moment except hiding and breeding.