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by MarkR
Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:15 pm
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: 6 out of 10 died in the 1st week. What happened?
Replies: 6
Views: 1826

Re: 6 out of 10 died in the 1st week. What happened?

Thanks for the great responses. At 24 days, maybe my cycle was too short but ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels were normal when I added the shrimp. I dropped a couple of spirulina flakes in to supplement feeding and speed up algae growth along with the sea fan from my original ecosphere tank. I go...
by MarkR
Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:03 am
Forum: Supershrimp!
Topic: 6 out of 10 died in the 1st week. What happened?
Replies: 6
Views: 1826

6 out of 10 died in the 1st week. What happened?

When my 3 year old broke my ecosphere (miraculously dropped inside another glass container) I transferred the shrimp to another container using the original rocks, coral and water. Over the course of a week, I slowly added water with a pH 1.012 (Instant Ocean salt, Microbe Lift and water conditioner...