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Update Seems the one with the black spots are active again, saw it munching on some food today. did a water change yesterday and tested with api kit today(KH GH kit is still on the way): ph 6.8-7.0 (need a better CRI light) Nitrate: 0; Nitrite: 0; Ammonia: 0; My indian almond leaves arrived as well as the oregano oil(80%). I'll put in a leaf tomorrow when the light is on. But how do yall suggest I soak the shrimp food since its granule instead of wafers? By weight? I do have some kelp wafers but those seems to not attract shrimp but snails. and the loaches will eat the shrimp granules too. Heater control is installed and temp should be gradually falling down to 23 now. On another note, two other bee shrimps are idle today with the shell turning opaque instead of nearly transparent. I assume this is because they are trying to molt? their organs seems normal (not pink) and there's quite a few molts around the tank.

Hi Simon, how are you? Good to hear from you! Yeah I have no clue if these mineral balls will do anything. Because I have crushed coral and I only need a tiny bit of seachem aquavitro GH+, I thought I should maybe add some mineral balls, but now that I think of it, the crushed coral is calcium carbonate (? I know it's some form of calcium) so maybe I should ditch the balls. I'm sure they are not harming anything atm. I also bought the river mud powder too. The crushed coral is in a chamber in the tank, so I can easily take a few pieces out each week. I do just worry about taking out too much though as it holds BB too. Im going to be buying a fluval 107 for the tank, so I'll hook it up for a week or two before I start removing any crushed coral. Thanks, yeah water parameters...I found some reliable sites saying 4-8GH and 1-4KH for aussie natives and then temp i think is a maybe a tad too warm- not sure. My fish and shrimp seem very happy. They playfully swim around and eat a lot, appear very content. I think Jason said he keeps his in really soft water. I can get back to that slowly but I would certainly do it over two or even 3 months, just to make it hopefully unnoticeable to the inhabitants of the tank. Yeah I do my regular weekly 10% water change and the shrimp and fish love it. I do getting moulting afterwards. I'm still trying to find a decent plant fert that doesn't require a 50% water change each week. I feel 50% is way too hard for the shrimp. I'm just using API leaf zone currently as no water change is required but I'm going to buy the Seachem Flourish and give it a go. Shopping trip + psych appt trip last week was good. We firstly drive to Jason's to pick up the plants, then I ducked into Birkenhead Point which is a shopping centre that is all the major brands but at discount prices. I got some Merrell hiking boots and converse shoes. Then we raced over to Bondi to get to my psych. Then we were going to go to a pub for a decent lunch but my mum rang and she hadn't been able to get home to let the dogs off the deck to go potty (she babysits my niece most days of the week as my sister and BIL had to return to work). So dad and I just grabbed some KFC at Syd Airport (we'll just outside of it), ate I and raced home. We beat the peak hour traffic too, which was good. I have to go back up this Thursday and have to be in the city. There is a fish store I discovered in the city somewhere, so I want to find it. I also went past another in the inner west, near Birkenhead Point so I want to pop into it too. There is another on the way home too I would love to drop into as well. Probably a bad idea when I'm so low on cash- it's all gone towards the fish set up atm. Im going camping next weekend too, and there are some LFS's on the way there too. Im going with yowie- bigfoot- researchers. Yowie Dan is well known in Aus and is a good friend of mine. We have yowie activity at our place throughout the colder months. He has done an investigation at mine with doco maker Attila Kaldy buy it was in summer and no activity. They are going to return this winter once activity picks up again. But we are going to the megalong valley in the blue mountains as its Australia's biggest hotspot. It's going to be very very cold. Looking forward to it though. Dan also has a number of tanks and he is passing on a few tanks to me for a hospital tank and as a shrimp tank. It'll depend on the sizes, as im not sure what they are, but it'll be great to have a few spare. Anyway, I hope you are having an awesome Sunday! It's Monday here and it's a public holiday! Kings Birthday. I hope you are well, along with your Betta and Shrimp.