Roger C
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What? Newbie shrimp keeper here. I bought 10 blue dream (amazon) received 12. 4 died the first week. it is day 63. Quick count, over 100 shrimp (that I can see).
Is this normal?
I have a 10gal shrimp only, covered, planted tank, 2 snails, no heater (70 degree) HOB filter, air stone, gravel substrate, driftwood, almond leaves, PH 6.8 (wood lowered? 7.4 at tap) water hardness 300. I feed Xtreme Krill flake, because that is what I had.
I am thinking all XXXX will break loose when the babies reach breading age. I think I only have 3 adult females now.
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Sorry, I work from home and every time I would try to take a video the phone would ring.
I am guessing they are spawning, But I could not see any eggs.
I have had them over a year now. and the males were really colored up.
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On 2/17/2023 at 4:34 PM, MattyM said:
More plants! Shoot for 70% planted or so. Can you dim your light? Sometimes I find longer times at lower intensity is the trick. And you don't have to have your drop checker turn green, a boost of CO2 may be all you need but you won't know how much you have until you do this:
I'd say I'm around 10-15 ppm of CO2, and plants are doing great in those tanks.
As I stated in the OP I added more plants 3 days before adding the CO2, the empty spots are where I planted jungle val and the fish have dug it up, I replanted until nothing was left of it. Now they are working to remove all the leaves from the stem plants. I am sure it is the rosy barbs. They have even grabbed plants from the tongs while planting. they just pick pick pick...
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On 2/17/2023 at 3:00 PM, knee said:
Maybe there's not enough PAR at the substrate. 3' away from the light is a lot and you might need another light to provide adequate PAR at substrate.
Also, if drop checker is showing blue then you're not really dissolving co2 into the water. Do you have a lot of surface agitation?
Is the stratum new? It could be releasing ammonia into the water and the algae is feeding from that.
I get a LUX reading of 4500 at the top of the tank. at the bottom it only reads 200. I will place my 48in coop light on the tank and take new readings. I like the shop light it is out of the way for doing Maintenace.
Yes, lots of surface agitation. The co2 is set VERY low for this size tank. I always start low and work my way up.
The startum was added with the new plants the day before I added the CO2. and that is even a small amount for the tank. I have a 4lb bag and only added about half. 3 days ago.
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On 2/17/2023 at 3:57 PM, nabokovfan87 said:
Double the CO2 you're dosing in. You don't have nearly enough for that volume of water. Are you pre-dosing in the CO2 prior to lights on and stopping it an hour before lights out?
No, the co2 is on the timer with the lights, the co2 proof airline hasn't come yet. using regular o2 airline. I was going to setup a second timer when I replace the airline.
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On 2/17/2023 at 2:59 PM, Sleepy said:
How long has the tank been setup with the plants? One very strange thing about your parameters is having such hard water with such a low PH not sure what to make of that. Also like you have already stated this needs more plants especially if you are injecting Co2 and 12 hours of light plus it kind of looks like this tank is getting sunlight also I would change all of those things just based on your pics.
edit: Actually just figured out why your PH would be that because of the Co2 silly me lol
Plants went in day 3, 2 years ago. Zero sunlight enters this room. Also why is this crypt doing "OK- not great" 12in from the dying Sword? Will add more plants, tired of buying them and watching them die. water wisteria dead, java moss dead, Crinum dead, lucky bamboo dead.....
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I am fine with the green algae on the glass. I can scrape the glass every week or 2.
It is the black/brown thick stuff that coats the décor, plants and substrate that I want to be gone.
It coats the plants and kills or at best stunts growth. The amazon sword has gone from a beautiful bushy green plant with 16in leaves to a tiny ugly black coated thing with a few 5in leaves.
The fish seem to be doing fine.Goal: Get rid of algae. Better plant growth for a more natural environment for the fish.
What I have tried with no success over the last 2 years. Giving 1mo +/- to see results:
Water changes daily 10%, weekly 40%, no water changes.
Lights 12hr day, no lights 1 week, 6hr day
Dosing ezgreen, ezcarbon, ezroottabs, flourish potassium.
Removed driftwood, rocks and décor.Setup:
60 gal tank 24in high x 4ft long, with glass lid (running over 2yr)
Feed: xtreme krill, xtreme community, tetra min tropical granules, frozen blood worms 1x week, o-nip tabs.
hanging led shoplight 40w 1 ft overhead 8hr day
Eheim ecco pro 300 canister (clean every 6mo or so)
MarineLand penguin 200 HOB (rinse filter weekly)
2 air stones
Heater @ 74 degrees
Gravel substrate with some crushed corral mixed in.
About 30 fish, small barbs (gold, tiger, rosy, Odessa, green, and others)
Plants: pothos, crypts, amazon sword, Anubis.
Nitrate 20, nitrite 0, ammonia 0, hardness 300, buffer 120, ph 7, phosphate 3
above reading are subjective, based on my interpretation of the color chart.New:
CO2 AquariumCoop regulator and diffuser, set at about 2 bubbles per sec.
placed diffuser under a “wavemaker” 90% of bubbles are circulated making 1000s of small bubbles floating around the tank. The drop checker shows no change after 24hr, it is still blue.
Added more plants. Super jungle val, 2 red stem plants unknown name, hornwort and jungle fern.
Added back in the factory led lights (Shoplight + intank)
Lightly mixed 2lbs fluval stratum into substrateShould I keep the co2 at current low level for 2 weeks. Watch for any improvements or turn up the co2 now.
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So, I caught her and put her in the ziss breeder box, Went to catch the male to put in with her. Looked back and she looks normal. Nothing I would call eggs or poop in the box. I would think the eggs wouldnt get out from the screen. It was only about 15 min.
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Is my barb ready to lay eggs or is it something else?
She didnt look like this 2 days ago.
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And you even have algae growth for them to feed on. I tried over feeding, I even left the lights on for a week. The glass looks squeaky clean (unlike my other tanks).