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Hi! Thank you, however this brings me back to the whole thing I read about shrimp not liking often and big volume water changes, this would have me changing 40% water a week in a balanced aquarium and in that way contradict everything I read about what shrimp like, no?

No, my bad I should've specified; Right now I've been doing 20% a week because I figured it was safe. I think I will try to go by Scapexghost's answer and see how I fare unless people have some other suggestions/comments. Thank you! And this is for sure not stressful on any habitants because maybe it'd be too often or too delayed or something, right? Because this way would make it easier as I can just test until the parameters hit the values you listed and be sure a water change is in order.

Hi! Thanks for your response. I'm not sure about the cycling although it sounds worrying, it was my understanding that a small amount of nitrites could be in your tank in order for it to be turned into nitrates which are in turn removed by water change and plants but maybe I'm wrong? It's also in the safe range on my drip test so I hadn't really considered it being an issue. As for your questions: The tank has been running for 2 months now and I use the seachem brand for everything. Prime for conditioning and also stability. The wood and leaves are not boiled. They are bought from an aquascaping store though and the person there told me that it would not be necessary so I went ahead and rinsed them with my aquariums water and put them in. I hope that was not a mistake then.

Hello everyone, I've recently gotten into the hobby and have a community tank which was planned to be a shrimp tank at first. Now I'm unsure, and after doing research, still very confused about the maintenance. I've got a 70liter (~18gallons) tank scaped with plants, mosses, driftwood, floating plants, catappa leaves, cholla wood, catappa bark and is being filtered through two seperate sponge filters capable of filtering 400l (105gallons) an hour that houses ~25 neocaridinas, 10 kubotai rasbora, 10 pygmy corys, 2 small plecos, (a super red and a clown) and 3 ramshorn snails. Now so far so good except it's very confusing to me knowing what the correct frequency and volume of waterchanges should be. When I did research for my initial shrimp tank I was reading alot of 10-20% every other week, however when I do research on fish it appears to be more of a weekly thing. I hope anyone could enlighten me on what could be a good middle ground as to not stress out my shrimp nor my fish. Here are my parameters that have been stable for a while now: pH: 7,5 kH: 7 gH: 10 NO2: 0,1 NO3: 4 NH4: 0,1 Thanks in advance!