Crash_2011

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hello everyone I have a 10 gal tank that I first set up as a orange shrimp tank it has been up for two+ years and the shrimp pop exploded I did add ember tetras to the tank as wells shrimp pop still doing good with fish in there then all of a sudden I started loosing shrimp it started as one every other day then maybe two shrimp in a week that we seen I know they eat the dead but eventually I lost all shrimp so I put in a couple of overflow of wifes guppies the fish are doing well can't say water parameters are normal but they are in range my concern is that I was going to put back some orange shrimp from another tank back in but we only have a very few of them and hundreds of cherry shrimp from wifes tank so I put in three cherry and in bout two days all shrimp are dead and their bodies are still in one piece so I am wondering what could be killing shrimp but not effecting the fish thank u all for the help

im not sure if this is this the same thing but I did the same thing with my 29gal tank and my Amano shrimp started swimming in circles and floating like they was dying I did end up losing two of them plus my cherry shrimp that was in there I was told it was PH poisoning i never thought of PH being off that bad cuz it has never been off that much but I checked another tank before I changed water and PH was way off Im not sure if this helps out but I was told if it happens again to quickly drain have water and start a drip acclimated the rest of the water into tank

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welcome to the forum and nice looking tanks

hello sorry to hear about this picky tank I have some follow up question I didn't see any ammonia in ur parameters and how old is the tank it looks really nice by the way and how often do u change water do u change just because or is it cuz the parameters are off I'm asking cuz I have found that sometimes changing water (weekly) has hurt tanks in stead of letting them work out problems on their own

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the drink cup lid works great me I have it on three of my tank and it has stopped the splash on the hood

What type of rotala is it in one of my other tank I have Rotala Rotundifolia Orange Juice with no co2 it has never carpet for me but it has actually grown better in the tank that has no co2 than the one with co2 what kind of light do u have and I that a crypt Wendi that is staying close to the ground like a pancake here is the rotala it has grown a wall in the back of the tank

hello all I'm late to the party but I too am doing S. Repens and Monte Carlo with no CO2 I have to say its been slow really slow at first almost nothing I was having a hard time keeping the Monte Carlo in the substrate it would float up I had to put a rock on it and move it every other day so I wouldn't kill it then I wanted to give S. Repens a try so I got some from aquarium coop well I only managed to keep three out of the whole pot they start just the same way as Monte Carlo they lost leaves everyday for awhile as u can see by the pics but here in the past two weeks they have started taking off I have had the tank with Monte Carlo for close to two years and probably 8 months to a year for S Repens so @joeQ it looks like ur plants are doing better than mine did at first so u just have to give it time lol a long time

tank looks nice about the stem plant I have Rotala rotundifolia orange juice in my betta tank it has no Co2 and it grows in good for me

the kind that's not in my tanks

I have assassins snail in three of my tanks and I have nerite snails in the same tank they do not bother the bigger snails they did a great job on the bladder snails I have no more in my tanks assassins snail will eat bloodworms and flakes that fall to the bottom I think one snail should be fine in the tank

no I have not done anything new to the tank I do have some Paracleanse I will start treatment to today thanks for the advice

pH 7.6 nitrates 25 hardness 300+ nitrite 0 ammonia 0 kh/buffer 120 water temperature 75 hello everyone I have a problem with my ember tetra one passed away today and it was swimming sideways had a big belly like bloat but it didn't have any color and u could see its spine and insides like it was going transparent I have another one that is starting to look the same way the photo is not a good one but u can see how the spine is starting to to be seen the tank has been set up for over a year I have had these guys for about a year I do have orange shrimp in the tank as well any advice would be greatly appreciated

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with my experience in the wife's heavy planted shrimp tank (20L) we had carpeted dwarf sag and heavy crypts there was over 200 cherry shrimp in there and she decided she wanted cherry barbs to go with the theme well got 6 cherry barbs that tank went good for bout a year she wanted a change so I pulled out all the plants a noticed that we only had around 20 shrimp so I guess for that year the barbs Wass having a feast on shrimp so in my experience even in well planted tank barbs still had a feast on shrimp

Thanks for the reply I wasn't sure bout bubble size I didn't know if it was a good idea or not

hello guys it probably has been talked bout a lot but I have a problem with my diffuser it leaks around the tube and not go through the diffuser I finally got the tube down onto the diffuser about inch and a half (with a great fight pushing and pushing) I used hot water method too but I was looking at one of my pond plants that I am over wintering in basement and noticed the Co-op never clog air stone putting off small bubbles has anyone ever tried using a air stone has a diffuser it u tighten it up ?

hello everyone I was born in MO and now live in Iowa

I have used two straws from restaurant. To block the filter side of the tank. You put one inside the other so u can adjust the size for a snug fix. If u put them just under the water surface the roots will hold them and you don’t have to adjust them as much for water evaporation. I hope this help it’s cheap and works for me I tried the ring but it still would get stuck under outflow