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sliphorn wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 2:42 am Ph is fine. Ammonia is nil. Buy some shrimp. How long has it been since the shrimp died?

Quite a while! More than a year easily. I've just been keeping an MTS tank and letting them do their thing

Hiya! So a couple of years ago I started a small setup to house some EcoSphere rescues. I purchased everything here and set up per the instructions and even purchased some MTS. I believe I over-fed and caused an ammonia spike that killed the shrimp. Since then, I've had the tank with just the MTS an...

My pH was definitely too low initially. I had calcium pebbles but apparently not enough. I think between that and the ammonia, it definitely killed my shrimp. The urchin skeletons are calcium carbonate and shortly after adding them is when my MTS started breeding more prolifically, so I assume that ...

:smt006 So I have a 1 gal tank and I ordered all of my supplies from here. I got 10 shrimp and 8 MTS. My shrimp died off (I messed up, there was some ammonia and and the pH was too low) and I was going to let the tank cycle before buying more shrimp (I also added some sea urchin skeletons to increas...

Thought of two more questions that I forgot initially: I ordered some small moss balls and also macroalgae, is that too much for the one shrimp and 10 snails? I don't want the tank to look bare but I also don't want to overfeed. Also is it ok to just gently pour my shrimp into the new tank when the ...

Thank you so much!

I was given a small ecosphere with two shrimp as a gift a few years ago and it has one shrimp remaining. I've decided to save this poor guy and hook him up with a 1 gallon tank. I've just ordered substrate, rocks, moss - the works. I really wanted to get my shrimp a little nerite friend, but after s...