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Some algaes are reddish or maybe the stone in there has a lot of iron in it and it's iron precipitating out? I cant really tell from the picture but Does the red coating settle in just certain areas?

Hi this is an update to my little shrimp crisis. Not long after my original post I found a used 4.5 gallon tank. I cleaned it up with vinegar for the mineral deposts and then bleach :o for spores etc. Yes I rinsed really really well between tx and especially after the bleach, with an overnight soak ...

A week ago I bought 4 cherry shrimp. I placed them in a small plastic tank about 1/2 gallon ,maybe,with some hornwort in it. The hornwort is from my 50 gallon pond outside, which has fish, ghost shrimp, and other critters foating and bog plants. Sadly all my cherry shrimp died :cry: I'm not sure why...