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Wow nice shrimp.

Ok ok ok. Disclaimer, shrimp are the most highly addictive substance known to man. Got the nanancies and the plants and both are cuter than buttons! Making progress cycling the new filters but not quite there. A few more days and I can get this plant infestation out of this tank. Nice blue genes to compliment mine on these 2. Solidarity, or through the looking glass? Does the nanancy stay true to his brother or join with his new blue brethren? Lol. Some classic blacks. One or two poor patterns but over all, nice bold healthy shrimp. The tank after a rework. Moss mountain in the back left and java fern? crypt? jungle on the right. The new darling plants! Clockwise from the left; 3 Eriocaulon vietnam, 1 Red Downoi, 3 (5!) Syngonanthus uapes, 1 Blood Vomit, and 1 red Xyris sp. I'm super pleased with these and could see making a repeat order to build my stock as some of these are pretty slow growing. An update on the blue on black shrimp. As they age we see the blue zebra lines were the result of a metallic blue back stripe and the zebra stripes become white. Still a showstopper I think. And it appears someone beat me to blue zebras: https://www.vinshrimp.com/products/oe-blue-zebra-young-3-pcs I'm going to see if I can't get some of those. Anybody use Band? It's like an obscure chat room ebay. Fricking amazing sellers group on there for the USA. Tonight I placed bids on some gene shrimp: 3 boa shrimp and 6 good stardust males that are both heavy in Vin/Starfish genes If I can get into both these lines of shrimp I'll chill the F out and just work on developing my lines and crosses. And avert sure and impending spousicide. I told her killing the shrimp after killing me would just be spiteful, cruel and foolish. ? Ok, see ya later.

Try watching this short video, Simon

Okay thanks, salty shrimp is the only one available here for me, so I should mix my two water with the remineralizer and reach desired tds right?

So If I decide on sulawesi should i get the remineralizer and mix it with my tap water?

Might wanna change my mind in caridina, I dont know if they will work, I live in a tropical region and room temp is 29degrees, caridina wont breed in that range while sulawesi does around that temperature range. Can't really afford a chiller now. And I don't have ro water to top up the tank often if I use a fan on it hahaha.

Very nice, I like the tank layout and the shrimp are beautiful! Simon

Okay thanks alot Simon, I'll give this a try when I'm back home. Appreciate it a ton. Oh man ? is there any way I can try to make it myself? I thought of getting sulawesi aswell.

Thanks! I hope to improve them. This breeder says he gets 1 good one out of 10. I'm an optimist so that seems alright. Hopefully the metallic will transfer.

Ah okay I think the spreadsheet should help me understand things, I kinda get the picture. My tank is a 5 gallon and looking to change about 10 percent of water at a time. So with the spreadsheet I can just do calculations and apply to my other tanks aswell right? Okay thanks Jay, and also will your DIY mix and my tap water be a good combination for sulawesi shrimp? My ph is around 6.5 which isn't enough for sulawesi.