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Thanks Badflash, I actually never said I do 50% water change a week, I do about 10-15% every 3 weeks on average. I feed one shrimp pellet every other day, maybe I'm overfeeding. I'll try to make my water changes more frequent to get the nitrates down. It's a shrimp-only tank with snails.

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I didn't get a chance to buy a phosphate tester yet, but I did test the tap water for PH & Nitrate, and the PH was 6.5 and Nitrate was 0. Would R/O be enough or do I need Deionizer too.

It's hard to say, I didn't really notice that they weren't breeding until about a month and half ago, when my wife notice that none of the female shrimps are carrying eggs. On a side note, she's convinced that should could tell the male and female shrimps apart, but to me it looks all the same :lol ...

No, I'm actually located in a major city, at least in Canadian standard :) Now that you mentioned run-off, a couple of months ago, we experienced some major rainstorms that caused our water supply to increase in turbidity (cloudiness), we were advise to boil our water before cooking with it. I ...

Thanks Badflash, I never thought about phosphates in the tap water being the problem. I'm located in Vancouver, BC, I wonder if anybody else in my region is experiencing the problem. I'll have to get a phosphate tester. If I got a RO unit, what would your recommendation or steps in hardening the ...

ToddnBecka: I use to have over 50 when they were breeding a lot of babies but now no babies only adults :(

Neonshrimp: Probably 1/4 of them actively scavage for food the rest just sits on the sponge or java moss.

Newjohn: I feed every other day, either with 1 shrimp pellet or 1/4 piece Hikari ...

Hi Wood,

Thanks for the reply. I'm not adding anything to the water. I use Prime to condition the water, when I do a water change. I use Aquaclear mini for filtration, with a sponge on the intake. It's a shrimp only tank, with Java Fern and Java Moss, I do have pond snails & trumpet snails in the ...

Hi Everyone,

I've been breeding RCS for over 6 months without any problems, but recently I've notice that my shrimps weren't carrying any eggs anymore, I've just counted and I have about 30 shrimps in a 10g and none of them have the yellow saddle. I'm at lost to why they stop breeding and was ...