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I have some asolene spixi's and apple snails. Are they good substitutes for MTS or should I get real MTS for the shrimp tank? My substrate consists of sand and gravel 'cause I was told by a LFS owner that the more substrate I have in the tank, the better it is for the bacteria. Now that I have about...

How do I safely do a water change, i.e. vacuum the substrate, without sucking up baby shrimp? I've got a 10G with shrimp and a pair of cory with fry. I use sand and gravel substrate with some moss and plants. When I do my watch change, I just suck out the top to avoid getting the fry and the baby sh...

I bought about 15 asolene spixi's and they are probably marble size or smaller. The ramshorn don't get any bigger than pea size either but there are a lot of them. As I mentioned before, I feed the tank 'cause of the fact that all my algae are gone. The livestock, specially snails, are going after m...

How does one usually account for bioload on shrimp and snail? The rule of thumb for fish is 1" per gallon so I know I'm ok there. But the # of snails and shrimp are hard to count. Besides, aren't they supposed to be really low since they are the cleaning crew? I forgot to mention I also have a ...

I had about 20 amano shrimp and countless cherry shrimp, 10 spixi snails with a couple of julii cory's in a 10G. I changed my filter 2 days ago 'cause it seemed really clogged up. Last night the tank seemed empty than usual but I wasn't alarmed. However, tonight when I looked for the amano shrimp, 2...

Cool, thanks for the advice!

I'm starting a shrimp tank and my local fish store sales person has no idea what Java Moss is. I did see some lucky bamboo type plants in their live plant section. I have a few stalks of those sitting in a small gravel pot right now. Would it be ok to put the lucky bamboo in the tank with my shrimps...