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It entirely depends on what you’re keeping in the tank. This isn’t possible. One of your readings is incorrect, and I’d assume it’s probably the TDS. Are you using a TDS meter to test that? To elaborate - when you test GH and KH with the API kit, you are testing for dGH and dKH. The d stands for degree. One degree of hardness - GH or KH - is equivalent to 17.9ppm. Now, KH and GH both contribute to your TDS, your total dissolved solids. So if we have 17.9 * 11 GH and 17.9 * 5 KH, that’s 197ppm GH and 90ppm KH. Which, added together, equals 287ppm. This value should be included within the TDS, and therefore the TDS value should probably be above 300 (due to other dissolved minerals and such that aren’t recorded in GH and KH tests). Hope that’s helpful.

Tank looks great and good to see the ember tetras and blue shrimp also doing well! Happy 2022 to you and everyon that reads this also. Simon

Hi All, It's not ever shrimp but lately i've seen a few shrimp hanging around the water line lately. All the parameters are fine for my crystal red shrimp as i just tested them . I run two sponge filters on my 60L tank . I havn't changed anything and my last water change was on the 21st. I done a slow drip top up yesterday with just RO water and the TDS dropped by 10 PPM but everything seemed fine nothing i haven't done before. Any ideas? I've read about the lack of oxygen but the two sponge filters produce alot of surface movement and you can see all the plants moving due to the circulation.

Yeah that’s a reading from the tds/ppm meter thanks for the information This is my first time using the gh kh test and to be completely honest the instructions were pretty poor. I found a very short video on how to use but again information was poor. I’m going to do it all again tomorrow. I need to get it right. Thanks for your help

Thx For info Hammy

Do aquarium shrimp use status stones like ocean shrimp? I’ve heard they use them so they know up from down when being tossed around by currents.

Water parameters are as follows this was done last night. Ammonia- 0 Nitrite - 0 nitrates - is between 0 - 0.5 ( it's not high) kH - 1 gH - 1 TDS - 135 Temp - 21 degrees. Thank you. It's only something i have started seeing in the last few weeks. It's not all the shrimp but maybe one or two .

What are your water parameters? Please include water temperature as well. The hotter the water temp, the lower the oxygen in the water gets.

EC to TDS conversion factor of NaCl is usually the one to use.

Great advice from the seasoned shrimpkeepers to those new to the hobby. That's why I love this forum. ?