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Only a little bit lower to go to get to the 7.4 target.

Go VERY carefully adding the calcium carbonate, check it in some seperate water before using it in the tank. I added calcium blocks once and the TDS rocketed? Simon

Hello everybody, i recently spotted some of my shrimps being infested by Vorticella and after doing my research i found that a salt bath would cure them. The problem is that all of the LFS in my area don't carry any aquarium salt which is odd when i think of it, but an employee in one of the LFS told me that rock salt would be a viable alternative to aquarium salt. I googled up if this is true and found 2 sites stating that any non-iodized salt would do ok. Is any non-iodized salt safe for use or not?

Yeah hopefully! As I mentioned earlier, the pH has gone back up to 8 ever since I started adding KH to the ro water. Even at <1 KH, the pH would go up to 8 as soon as I add kh ?. As of last week's water change I stopped adding KH and probably hence why the pH of the tank is starting to go back down again, the kH of the tank overall hasn't changed yet as it still sitting at ~3. I got my hands on some food-grade calcium carbonate so i'm gonna give that a go.

Those figures aren't too bad, hopefully the water change may have brought the PH down as that has crept up! If these are the only 2 of the 12 recent purchases then there could be down to them not being able to cope with all the moving around, especially if you got the from a LFS. They probably went from breeders tank, to shop tank, to your tank in a short time and all with different water parameters. To lose one of 6 would be normal for me from when I bought them at LFS so try not to over react at this point! If some moulted ok then maybe the shrimp that died weren't quite as healthy/strong? Buying from a specialist will be 1 less step/water and they were probably kept in water better suited to them. Let us know if you still get any deaths though, after 3-4 weeks the shrimp should have moulted once and be well adjusted to their new water parameters so you shouldn't see any problems from then on??? Simon

I'm not sure whether shrimp would stop breeding because of overpopulation, but any environment can only support a finite number of creatures though, I do believe that, so most of the babies would be likely to die off I expect! Simon

Could overpopulation be a factor that prevents breeding? Στάλθηκε από το Mi A3 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk

Unfortunately I have found 2 dead shrimps today. ? Looked just like the others, with one looking like it was mid-molt. Others seemed to have molted successfully. Parameters: pH: ~7.8 Am: 0 No2: 0 No3: 0 Gh: 7 Kh: 3 TDS: 178 Temp: 23C I did a ~15 water change.