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Hi All New to PRL's however not very sucessful to date. I had 6 to start with in a 50lt tank with RO re-mineralized water with a TDS 120 but raised it to 150, (self advice). I initially used a pool filter sand substrate. Parameters were as recommended by the seller. I have no issues here with that advice at all. I did request juveniles at the time and feel that might have been my error as I know PRL and CR are a little touchy with transport. Since setting up the tank which I seeded at the time I decided to change the substrate to ADA Amazonia V2 to get the PH stability bit and placed the 1 survivor into a holding tank complete with all the plants and wood and his sponge filter. I used some of the sand substrate and 90% of the water for the holding tank. To date he has been going well and seems to have grown but I haven't found any casting. I am doing regular water changes at the same TDS. However I rarely find him out wandering around the tank and I usually do a head count daily and find him hiding under a particular piece of wood. He gets well fed with a variety of foods, flake, shrimp specific pelets and algae wafer and fresh from my other tanks. My cherries are all out and about continiously scounting for food. But this PRL is very very shy in this holding and was the same in the 50lt. Any advice would be appreciated. Are they normally as shy or has he got to many hiding places. Current water deadings are PH 6.8 to 7.0 (a bit high and waiting on peat ) nitrite 0, nitrate 0, TDS 150, KH 0, GH 7 dgh, Temp. 24.4c Sorry for the long rambling question.

The pH seems a bit high even though your KH is close to 0. I would try working on getting the pH down to 6.5 or thereabouts. Try feeding the shrimps more "meaty" foods for protein. Like frozen blood worms.

Hello All, New member. Just stumbled across this forum some time ago but lost track of it. Good to have found it again. Looks like exactly what I am after. Just starting out with PRL after a few years of cherry. Will post a problem shortly I am having with the PRL probably not a great way to kick off a new membership but hopefully will get some answers . Dirk

Welcome to the forum Dirk. Glad you found us again after loosing track of it.

Woohoo ! How exciting. The water flow around the filter will certainly help those eggs.

Just a quick update, the female pictured has bred with another male of the same. Just spotted the fry tonight. The female was berried but had far too many eggs than she could carry and dumped them on the foam filter strainer. Not sure if she kept a couple or if the ones on the filter hatched. There's at least 3, maybe 4 that I've seen.