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Upsetting the substrate is not a big deal, do it gently it's enough. But remember, plants are good for the tank, and beautifull! Why removing them?

It's a kind of diatoms. It wont be circular for long.

Osmosed water from your petshop or garden center will be better and cheaper (in France you find free osmosed water in some petshops). And again, some water in bottles may be cheapper than distilled water.

If other shrimps are fine I think your RC have "bad" genes maybe. I would let them die, then add new shrimps from another person to the surviving group.

Do you have a not so polluted river, lake or pond full of life next to your home? You can filtrate it in a coffee filter and use it.

Then use tap water and stop to torture yourself

What kind of shrimps do you have?

Hello. Use special silicon for aquarium as a glue. Or a thing like that , I dont know how you name it in english, it was designed to close wounds without poisoning the patient. You know that little drop that stick you fingers in one instant until you cut your own skin :smt005 CF lamp (with hot color...

And... Normal tap water is OK for most shrimps (all Neocaridinae, all C. Babaulti, malawa etc.) I use super hard water forum Paris for 3 years and it's OK. Also many french shrimp keepers use cheap water in bottles because reversed osmosed water is ecologicaly disgusting and rain water sometimes pol...

Hello.

One of my Malawa shrimp have only 4 brown eggs, the others are cream white. Anybody saw the same thing in his colony?

A larva will be released from every egg. Then the larva will transform into a little shrimp.

They dont "release" berries, they oxygenate them by moving pleopods.

Hello.

In a couple of days I will have some Neocaridina sp. blue. Does someone have a little more information about this species? The most complet description is on this website but it's still incomplet.

Tx.

Tanks for your answers.