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Mustafa you were right about the PH.
I bought a Tetra drop test, and it shows something between 8.0 and 8.5.
I thought the peat would have much more effect on the PH.
As far as I have understood, I need softer water to lower the PH succesfully.

She has dropped all the eggs
Then the waiting starts again.

I'll do that and post the result here.

When i change water in the tank i use half RO water and half tap water filtrated over peat for 24 hours.
The tank contains oakleaves, peat and wood.

Or maybe the testkits is not precise.
KH, GH and NO2 is measured with Tetra droptests.
PH is measured with a noname strip.

Finally they decided to breed again



Water parameters:
GH: 12°dH
KH: 8°dH
PH: 6,8
NO2: < 0,3 mg/l
Temperature 21-26°C

I'll keep you updated

GB: Very nice pictures :) Congrats on the shrimplets. Kenshin: I don't know what the ideal setup for breeding bumblebees is. I'm still hoping mine will breed again :). I've had 2 bumblebee females carrying eggs. The first dropped all the eggs. The second dropped all except 2 eggs. That resulted in 1...

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The Bumblebees have all 8 gallons to themselves.
They are kept in tapwater with a little peat in the filter. No waterpreparation or chemicals added.

I bought 14 and have 3 males and 3 females left - and a baby
The adult shrimp is a female but not the mom.

This is the same female with a male in the foreground.

I just found this 4-5 mm. long baby in my bumblebee tank

Well that's pretty nice because i only have 1 Tiger female left.

There's still one Macrobrachium female carrying eggs. I'll move her to an empty tank.

The 5 Macrobrachium is the only shrimps in the tank.
The shrimplets must be Caridina sp. "Tiger" then. I moved my tigers from this tank a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks for the ID.

I got a bit confused about the species, because the info on wirbellose.de says that the larvae should be freeswimming at least 4 weeks.
And mine were only swimming for 1-2 days.