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very nice!

Update to say that since I have been doing the regular gravel vacs that lead to a long "good streak" of several months. One generation of 6 golden bee shrimp that I tracked grew up into adulthood with 100% survival rate, wereas the previous generation was lost due to the antenna disease. I haven't seen any shrimp since with the short antenna problem. Right now there are a lot of baby and young shrimp running around, which I guess is good. What is not so good is that I don't see that many old shrimp. I think shrimp reach full size in around 8 months, and live around 18 months, so if I have my statistics right, around half of my shrimp should be full size. Occasionally, but infrequently, I will see that a shrimp got eaten, so maybe it got sick and died or got attacked during molting. When my shrimp get old, they have a "crusty" looking shell, and then they will just stop eating for a week. So I get a good idea of when one has reached the end of days. Nitrates are kind of high, so probably the waste is not removed fast enough. About once a month I will do a plant trim and floating plant removal. gravel or HMF filter vac the other weeks. This tank doesn't seem to have sufficient denitrification or waste management.

Just a couple of update photos;