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Thanks JoanToBa! I hope it goes well on your end!

Looks like I have another set of babies on the way! I may start a new tank with parts of my current one but smaller for the office

Berried shrimp update:

Looks like 9 healthy babies were born! They seem to really enjoy the light and mainly swim vertically. I haven't fed the tank for a while and plan to let the tank be increasingly more independent.

@Mustafa - The specific LED product in my tank is linked below. It's priced amazingly low considering it provides me extra replacement light pucks which would in total last over 6 years: https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.3-light-rbgwhite-led-mini-puck-kit.1000851005.html

By the way, I discovered ...

When the shrimp arrive literally just take the bag, open it, and dump all the contents including the water and shrimp into your tank.

Make sure no shrimp get stuck on the wall of the bag. Simply swirl the water around while pouring them in the tank.

No need to acclimate temperature.

There ...

Yup, tons of algae growing on the top of my rock since it’s closest to my LED. That’s also where a lot of natural oxygenization happens where groups of bubbles form from time to time.

Check out these pictures which also show how my snails crawl on the under surface of my water where algae forms ...

Thanks to Mustafa, I have an awesome, thriving tank with no maintenance at all!

Started Sept 18 2017
2 gallon tank (1.5 gallons of water, glass jar from Walmart, and custom made plastic cover)
Livestock: 24 Opae Ula, 10 Snails + 7 New Baby Snails, 1 Mossball
Crushed sea shells as calcium source
Non ...

Hey All!

I just recently got myself a JBJ 6 gallon nano tank which I plan to make an opae ula tank. I have some new tank startup questions:

1. Once fully cycled, how many opae ula is advised I get for my 6 gallon tank? Would 30 shrimp be sufficient?

2. I see both macroalgae and mossballs are ...