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by 7Enigma
Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:36 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Started off great, now not so much...
Replies: 11
Views: 5167

Re: Started off great, now not so much...

Must have been too long of an original post! :) Mustafa, I'm very glad to hear you do not believe the granite is the likely culprit. With that I plan to try again with the shrimp and write the previous experience off as bad luck. One glaring omission I completely failed to mention in my original and...
by 7Enigma
Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:00 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: setting up CO2 and shrimp..
Replies: 1
Views: 935

Re: setting up CO2 and shrimp..

Pressurized CO2 is (AFAIK) only used on high light, well fertilized, planted tanks. My 20 gallon at home is exactly this type of tank. The problem is these tanks are rarely shrimp friendly and so most of the research I've done says stick with low light, non fertilized tanks. If you do still go with ...
by 7Enigma
Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:51 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Started off great, now not so much...
Replies: 11
Views: 5167

Re: Started off great, now not so much...

Forgot to add I do not use ANY fertilizers on this tank, it is strictly low light with slow growing plants. And also that the pictures I posted were 2-3 weeks before getting the shrimp. I had razorbladed the sides during my big cleaning and have added about twice the amount of moss seen as well so i...
by 7Enigma
Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:12 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Started off great, now not so much...
Replies: 11
Views: 5167

Started off great, now not so much...

Hello everyone! I'm new to the forum, but have been lurking for a year or two. I have been waiting on posting access for a couple weeks and so most of my questions have been answered through reading everything on here and the web. I have a 10gallon fresh water dwarf puffer tank at work that I had wa...