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Update, the shrimps are doing great, ph close to 7, ammonia 0, using to water in both tanks, 8 babies a bit over a week old are growing fast. Added a piece of drift wood and live plant, they very much liked that. I have quite a few females and hopefully more eggs to be seen soon. Thanks for the help!

Great info, thank you!! I have the ph dropping, it's around 7.8 now, ammonia is clear, nitrite and nitrate are super low, haven't fed , they're picking the tank clean, a quick stir of the tank pulls up the overfeed and they're gobbling it up. I have a foam filter on the pump inlet, and a nylon over ...

Well I did a 40% water change today, had a dead shrimp, ammonia bordering ok, ph still too high, doing a bunch of brita filter flushes in the tank. I have some purified water to do changes with (zero chlorine, 6ph water), and a our local water guy is coming by next week and will start on a filtratio...

Thank you for the great info!!!!! I am guilty of a bit of over-feeding, some females are carrying eggs and I am/was paranoid of a few articles discussing hungry/starving shrimp eating their young. The PH reducer is a safe one,. I have those tank monitors on the inside hanging from suction cups telli...

I've battled with the Mrs for a few years now over pets, our kids are 5 and 8 now, we picked up a 48gal tank, started out with some difference species of gold fish, then a few feeders, some crabs, a few other species, including some cherry shrimps. Well once the crabs figured out a way to catch them...