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So did I. You suddenly have more tanks than I can keep up with ?

LOL, no don't stop. You will never learn new things if you don't ask, question or test. Sometimes just a conversation can lead to other topics that no one else anticipated.

Yeah, but ... Spongy is setting up a brackish water tank for baby Amano shrimp. Very different to what you and Steens are trying to do. Brackish water is high pH. high GH, high KH and salt.

I agree with JayC, don't stop! If Blue ridge hadn't mentioned about the books I wouldn't have looked and ordered the one I had wanted for sometime.................. I also thought this tank was for brackish water? Depending on what you are hoping to keep in this tank the dragon stone would be the one to be cautious of? The glass, pebbles and slate should be fine? Simon

Oh... steensj2004’s problem was with dragon stone. He had to take that out of his tank. I recommend reading that thread before you go on with that.

Although losing the last killie must have been upsetting, it does now give you a clean working space for getting the parameters sorted and then you can look forward to getting some replacement killie - I love killie, even more than Betta but it is a bit too involved for me so I have avoided it so far! If your guppies are anything like mine (endlers), fin and tail marks will happen a lot and clear up almost as quickly, they are far too curious/nosey and go into every gap, under moss pads, squeeze behind the filters etc and so mine I have put down to them having just gone somewhere that they have got a small tear or caught on something - behind a filter or too close to a mesh pad etc? Simon

Thanks for the heads up! I left the tank a month without shrimps even though they 'say' you can safely use with shrimps immediately. I'm not all that happy with it in all honesty, I would use the JBL pro scape again in future as it just isn't going as well this time and although the plants are showing a bit of growth it all looks a bit drab and brown compared to Bertie (the betta) tank which is so lush and green and gets WOW from most visitors. The JBL required 50% water changes twice a week for the first 2 weeks but that extra work was well worth it for the better end result! Simon

Haha I’m wrong again, might just stop giving advice in circumstances I have no direct experience with ?

Thx blue ridge for the advice, currently my problem is with the tds and hardness of the tank. The endler guppy no longer has a problem with her tail, and sadly the rocket killie has passed away. All of the other fish look fine, and I think the reason my killies have had it tough is due to the hardness being way too much for them. As there doesn’t seem to be a disease with them, my main focus is to get the hardness down before I lose my last 2 ?.

I've avoided posting in this thread because I'm not sure what is available overseas and even the best photos are hard to diagnose by if not simple pathogens such as ich. If these were my fish, I would set up a QT and use Erythromycin and if you have it there API general cure. Obviously be mindful not to use carbon, etc in your filter. I am not a fan of tea tree oils, high temps or in most cases salt.

Cheers JayC, we have set up a separate tank for the babies and doing what's needed to create the algae in it, we've popped a bit of our already created stuff in to help speed the process up.I really want this to work. x I'm just magic. Lol. Nah, loving this, loving that people are willing to help is brilliant. This seems like a fantastic community. x

Will remove rocks today and do 20% water changes today and tomorrow, might get a couple of 10% changes done over the week as well. Also gonna try the test again for a week this time.

Can confirm. I keep TTS in both Neo and Caridina set ups.

I'm gutted to hear this. So sorry, Simon. Unless your home gets awfully cool, you might find that your shrimp tanks do just fine without a heater. I have 11 shrimp tanks and only one is heated (to 74F/23c because of one fish). They slow down breeding in winter, but I don't mind that. My tanks at my shop drop down to 66F (19C) in winter months and I've never had losses related to cool temps. On the other hand, I have lost hundreds upon hundreds to tanks getting too warm. Just food for thought and if your place's temperatures fluctuate a ton this might not be ideal especially in a smaller aquarium. But I once lost power at my shop in the dead of winter and my tanks got down to around 11c and and Crystal and Neo shrimp didn't die. They were motionless and not happy so I made sure it took days to warm back up by setting the room thermostat quite cool and inching up slowly, but that was last winter and I still have those colonies (as well as some fish in other tanks that went through it). I would not recommend such extremes obviously and realize I got very lucky. Just a head's up you might already know about, but that Dennerle substrate will spike ammonia the first few weeks. It's probably my favorite out there, but there's quite the waiting period before it's safe to add shrimp.

I won't hold my breath that it stops there either?????????????? I would probably combine the culls in one tank if you can get the parameters the top end of caridina and the 2 types don't cross breed so don't need to be separated. Simon

Good luck! Sounds like a great project! btw, I love that spongy has 5 posts and 5 reputation points... (100% positivity on posts vs everyone else with under 50%)

Setting up a brackish water tank is one thing, but have you thought about what to feed them? Amano hatchlings (don't know what to call them) don't eat normal food. They eat the algae in green water and biofilm after day 2. So the tank ought to have been set up weeks ago and let green algae develop in the water. All is not lost however, you might be able to feed them powdered spirulina or chlorella - the kind you get at health food stores sold as super foods. NOTE: this is a disclaimer - I don't actually know if this powdered algae will work, as I don't keep shrimp that hatch into larvae.

Hope it all works out well for you and hope you keep us updated! Simon

What holes?

Oh lol forget the last paragraph I typed, that’s a bit sad.

Lol I love the groot statue! Just wondering, what type of rock is it in there? As steensj2004 and I have both had problems with rocks in shrimp tanks recently...