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I can get over being offended. Getting these shrimp in shape is more important to me than a debate over salt. Considering I don't use salt in the shrimp tank in the first place :P

i made the changes in my previous post. I will attempt to find hardwood leaves for leaf litter. Right now they just ...

Right, Anne.

most of the breeders I have done business with (4 breeders, very popular, IFGA breeders) keep their guppies fairly brackish. mod-high alkalinity, fairly high salt (1 tbsp per 5 g.), hard water, pH close to neutral.

I can definitely say that since adopting that regimen my guppies do ...

okay nix the ketapang. must have missed that, because i did read the intro.

most of the breeders that my original guppies came from use salt, that's why I do. i've had much better results with than without. so, i use salt with the gups. not my cories, angels, tetras, loaches, plecs, but with the ...

i had some watersprite and duckweed, added more and some amquel, see if this helps.

its 20ppm coming out of the tap. didn't realize nitrates would need to be so low, coming from fish 20ppm is good, means the tank is cycled and sitting nicely.

I've got dried ketapang leaves that I soaked in the tank and not using any ferts. I can start adding plants, however, and ramp up the ...

She has abandoned them along with a shed exoskeleton. She was young, very little red. She looked more pregnant than any of my other shrimp, which surprised me. I'm having a hard time with getting mine to breed.

Water Paramaters:
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 20
GH 150
KH 0
pH 7

My water is usually more ...

I found what I thought was an... (excuse me for the term) exploded Cherry this morning. I couldn't see well as she is in a clump of java moss, i just saw part of her body and a clump of eggs. I thought maybe the eggs became too large, or she was too stressed and died/aborted simulatneously or one ...

I picked this critter up the other day along with my driftwood and some minnows to feed my dinosaur fish (polypterus and ropefish). It was in the minnow tank and I asked about it. They said they come in regularly with the minnow shipments. The fish farm keeps these in the pond where they keep the ...

i didn't get a chance to remove it, but when i checked on the rcs this morning the activity is back down to normal and all seem fine. It was as if they were just swarming the driftwood. I'll take it out this afternoon and boil it for a few hours and maybe just let it sit in one of my outside ponds ...

I bought some driftwood yesterday (already soaked/decomposing) I dropped a piece into the RCS tank and they went CRAZY for the stuff. There is brown RCS excrement all around the driftwood and they have just swarmed it.

I checked on the tank this morning and the shrimp are swimming all over the ...

It seems to have cleared on it's own. I pulled the HOB filter (I was running an HOB and a sponge) Did a major cleanup of the tank, and within the last few days the green has totally cleared.

I'm thankful I poured some off to keep in a barrel in the back yard for fry though :)

And, when I bring in ...

I managed by virtue of lots of light, lots of iron (lava rock used in my filter as bio culturing media) and shrimp/snail food and waste to end up with a green water tank. The shrimp don't seem to mind, they are growing, molting, and zipping all over the place. I bought 30 and they are in a 20L with ...