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  1. Today while watching my shrimp tank (fairly new tank have only had 2 females get berried) I saw a fresh molt and all the males swimming around so I sat and watched for a while and saw one of my females moving her eggs from her saddle to her underbelly. When I checked back in 10 minutes later I saw she had dropped most of her eggs still carry 5 or so but I saw the eggs she dropped. So I grabbed a pipette and was able to gently suck up the eggs. After I grabbed the eggs I grabbed my specimen container and filled it with tank water and threw in an air stone in it. It’s currently sitting next to the tank. My main tank doesn’t have a heater so I’m guessing I don’t need to heat the container.  I only have a 5 gallon tank so I’m not sure if an egg tumbler will fit. Do you guys thing this set up has a chance of success if I change the water out daily?  Any advice on how to give these guys a fighting chance.20127E8A-6D74-44D3-8EDF-F204F7A54CDC.jpeg.479c539544956dbfcaa3519ac09229cf.jpeg

  2. I have a crypt that is starting to take over and crowd part of my tank. I’m just wanting to remove it but don’t really want to disturb my substrate since it’s been in the tank for 5 months. Could I cut the crypt at substrate level leaving the roots intact without having any issues from the roots decaying? 

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  3. @tolstoy21 I just have red rilis in the tank. I stocked the tank 2 months ago with 10 and one came home berried and those have hatched and grown up. I have many femal a with saddles currently but none have become berried yet 

  4. My tank is heavily planted. I had to do just top offs for a couple months cause I cut my finger off in a work accident and couldn’t manage full water changes. If I brought it down I would lower it over time so it wouldn’t shock the shrimps systems. All the shrimp seem to be doing fine I just don’t want them to start having molting issues with the high tds 

  5. I recently bought a tds meter and am currently trying to understand where the difference in my tap water and tank water came from. Out of my tap my tds is around 160 with a dkh of 0. Then when I check the tds in my nano shrimp tank the tds was 360.
     

    I have crushed coral in my substrate that puts my tank dkh ph 4. My dgh in the tank is 16 did my general hardness get so high from topping off with tap water?

    And would it be safe to use Rodi water to bring the general hardness down to lower my tds? If I did do this would my kh stay around the same level since the coral is in the substrate? 

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