Should you even replace aquasoil in the first place? I never do, I think it's a waste of perfectly fine soil. Also, where did you buy the soil and the shrimp. The places that I know that sell those sell them at about RM 6 - 10 per shrimp depending on its type and about RM 30 - 45 per kilogram of aqausoil depending on the brand. It's too expensive for me, and the real tanks (and not plastic containers and fishbowls) cost RM 50-75 (for a 20 gallon) depending on glass type and brand too. *cries in a red cent"
Loved the idea with the coke bottle. But why use expensive aquasoil instead of gravel, if there arent any live plants, except the anubias, which is not connected to the soil??
Wow what a care, i have ghost shrimps in my tank and i usually just did a drop and plop no water measurement no powder, no ph or nh measurement, no temperature... And thank goodness my shrimp still alive and its breeding fast soo i was thinking adding a big fish to slow it down.
This tank will be the same as the previous tank because of the aqua soil.. u might want to swap it out for gravel or false sand .. so that there wont be excess nutrient which will cause algae bloom
Just noticed that you changed the set up for shrimps in my experience don't change the set up and they prefer the stones with algae than the new ones and ass for me I would just like to tell you add moss in one of the stones and look how they will populate
1. No heater? 2. The substrate was very likely filled with shrimplets. Were they just thrown away? 3. They were eating algae off rocks. Now they have no food. 4. Changing more than 10% water is very traumatic for shrimp and very likely deaths occurred in the following days.
1. If you heat the room to the correct temperature, you wont need a heater 2/3. They dont need algae, if they are given a variety of different foods 4. If you have the exact same parameters in both tanks, it wont stress the shrimp too much. You can change as much water as you want, as long as it has the same temp, pH, KH, etc. He made sure of this by adding the different powders to the water :)
Hello thinfrog :) I'm so interested in raising shrimp, can you tell me how to take care of them and what feed is suitable for them? Can I use fish pellets? Thank You
I’m curious as to why there aren’t any babies they always make me anxious when removing the whole population from the tank. Always afraid of leaving one baby behind
Anyone know what brands he used for the powders? Like the nitrification one in the filter. And the gh powder. And did he use RO water or dechlorinated tap water?
@batsoupp just a little guess since I was curious too. The garden center for 1 or the free kind from a park / lake shore but then maybe from an aquarium store !!! This day will be spent sucking up visual and written info because tomorrow will be my 1st day as a Shrimp keeper. It will be a great time for me, and hopefully the Shrimp will be good and healthy and that is the biggest concern °°°°☆
Use very fine wet sand paper (#1000 and follow by #2000) instead of the scraper and you get much better results without risk having scratch marks on the glass.
