Careful with the TDS water parameter for shrimp 

I only use a TDS meter but maybe it’s time for me to invest in Gh kh test kits. Thanks for posting the video. I remineralize my water to 120 tds, but my tank tends to stay at 197 tds. I feel that is because of plant fertilizer and the addition of capata leaves that break down. When I do a water change. I try to tweak it down to a better Caridina level, but to be honest my blue bolts seem to be happy enough. They breed and I always seem to have a few little babies in there but my colony doesn’t increase much.

I used to only use TDS meter, but after reading an article from the 2 hr Aquarist on GH, I use all three. Gh, Kh, and TDS.

I only use my tds meter to reminilize the ro water to about 125

I use tds to check my shrimp lately blue leg poso tank went from 300-400 within a month I guess the colony have grow too large and it die off one by one.

Only using a tds meter. Especially since the tank only has some soil, no rocks, no wood, and some moss. Seems great over the past 5 years.

I’m getting close to adding shrimp. Currently TDS of 45 with KH 2 and GH4. I’ve capped the aqua soil so need to lower PH with CO2 from 7.4. How critical is the PH value? I have live plants, drift wood, almond leaves, and layered substrate.