[Green water in nano shrimp tank]

@Guppysnailthanks I will check that out. 

[Green water in nano shrimp tank]

My 5 gallon planted shrimp tank has broken out with green water. My parameters are consistent 

nitrate- 10-20 

nitrite 0 

ammonia 0 

gh 300

kh 80

ph 6.8 

I am running a finnex stingray 8 hours a day I was running it 10 hours then dropped it to 8 once the green water showed up which seemed to make it worse. For filtration I run  a aco sponge filter. I do around 2 pumps of easy green a week to keep my nitrates around 20 ppm. I am also injecting co2 and my drop checker is a lime green after 2 hours of light and stays like green till it turns off. In the tank I have 3 Amano shrimp and 10 red rilis and a collection of pond snails. I started 2 months ago and the green water showed up about a week and a half ago. I know that my best option would be to get a uv sterilizer but I haven’t been able to find anything that isn’t just overkill for the tank. Would I be able to water change my way through this doing 10% daily water changes or will that stress my shrimp to much? 

 

[DIY drip acclimate]

Has anyone ever tried using a ziss premium air valve to make a drip acclimatization system for shrimp? With the valve controlling flow?

[Starting shrimp colony]

How often do you guys feed?

[Starting shrimp colony]

What does everyone like to feed their neo shrimp when starting a colony before fish are in?

[Trying and failing to hatch small batches of brine shrimp. What am I doing wrong?]

I had a bunch of build up on the bottom of my hatchery then I added a 1 in piece of airline to extend the stiff internal airline to reach the bottom of my hatchery not sure if that will help your hatch rate but made me “feel” like I was doing a better job

 

i also am doing small hatches I have been doing half a teaspoon. 

[New Co-op Test Strips]

I have seen Cory say that you would get that color from water hardness that’s over 300

[Work injury and tank cycle]

I recently started a new planted tank and unfortunately lost a finger in a work accident. Which has made tank maintenance a bit difficult. My tank has no ammonia, nitrites over 10 ppm, and nitrates over 100 ppm. Thankfully I have no livestock other thank some stowaway snails from my plants. Am I at risk or stalling the cycle or crashing the tank if I just leave the tank be till I can change the water. I think I will be mobile enough in a week or two? 

[Help! I tested my tank water and found an reading I don’t understand!]

My gh is always around 300 and I got a pink reading the other day and chalked it up as bad strip. The next tone I tested I got a normal reading. 

[5 Gallon Aquarium]

Chili rasboras are great 

[Does anyone have any experience keeping shrimp in super hard water]

@shkote How long would you say the initial acclimatization period is My rcs colony is struggling as well

[Check valve on Nano USB air pump?]

If you keep your pump above the water line you will be ok without a check valve I believe. Even though it was fine in your test it would be a real bummer to come home to an empty tank and flooded house when the prevention to the problem is such a low cost item. 

[Nano Fish with Shrimp]

Chili rasboras are a good option

[Questions about co2]

As for tank size you 10 is fine I’m running co2 on my 5 gallon and all my plants are loving it (dwarf baby tears, cryp tropica, tiger lotus, and ammannia gracillis) and i plan on having fish and shrimp 

[Chili Rasboras all staying in one corner]

II have a group of 8 Chili rasboras in my 5 gal and they hang around in the corners till they think it’s time to eat 

[New fish for the week of 3/22-3/28]

@Corygotcha that makes sense guess I will have to get a set up and start hatching them on a smaller scale since I’ve got just one 5 gal. 

[New fish for the week of 3/22-3/28]

Is there a specific day that you guys sell the bags of live baby brine shrimp? Or is just when ever you guys happen to have left overs?

[Please share photos of your heavily planted tanks!]

My first tank 5 gal

[Sparkling gourami]

Awesome thanks for the great videos and information @Danielin your experience does a sponge filter cause to much surface agitation for the bubble nests?

[Sparkling gourami]

@Daniel awesome video is the live food for the fry or is it to promote mating? 

[Sparkling gourami]

I recently got a trio of sparkling gouramis and it appears I got two females and a male and I am newer to the hobby and I am interested in breeding these guys for a fun project. What would be the ideal set up for a new 5 gal tank I would start to move the trio to. 

[New deal for members only]

Hmm didn’t see anything come in and I’m a member 

[Center piece fish for 5 gal]

@Brian no worries I love having as much input as possible! Thanks 

[Center piece fish for 5 gal]

@James B I was thinking of just doing one to try an avoid any aggression issues do you think the good benefits of having a group would out weigh the potential issues? 

[Center piece fish for 5 gal]

@Eddie Dingle I’m actually hoping for some population control once they start breeding since I’ve just got the one tank. I was going to wait till the colony grows to introduce either.