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A few pics of my shrimp doing their thing:

Alright. Do you think anything could've happened to my CRS shrimplets or could they just be hiding? Still haven't been able to find one (I counted 15 last I saw them). An out-of-context question: is it possible to get a good grade of Red Fancy Tiger shrimp just by hybridizing CRS and Fancy Tigers?

Ok, I'll order the meter and try the assorted food options as soon as possible. Maybe boiling some vegetables would help too? I've heard that BBs and other Taiwan Bees tend to breed when atmospheric pressure is in their area of comfort. I live in an area of high barometric pressure variation...

No, I do not know my TDS. I was planning on getting a TDS meter, but I can't find one with good reviews. Any recommendations? I feed them Shrimp King Complete. The CRS and BBs feed on it avidly for 30 minutes to an hour and a half after its dropped in the tank, but lose interest and only come...

I have a 10g with 7 Crystal Red Shrimp and 5 Blue Bolts. The CRS have been thriving for about 4 months now in the tank and even gave birth to some shrimplets. The BBs have also been doing ok, although no shrimplets yet. However, recently (about a week ago) almost overnight I stopped finding...

Ammonia is always stuck at whatever I dosed (right now at 2 ppm), and nitrite is always zero ppm. Nitrates went up a bit (5 ppm) even though ammonia didn't move, and I'm sure Stability did that. Full params: 10 g tank 2 ppm ammonia 0 ppm nitrite 2.5 ppm nitrate 6 gH 0 kH 6.4-6.6 pH Brightwell...

I tried Stability at the beginning of the cycle. The ammonia and the nitrites didn't change, but the nitrates went way up.

I'm currently attempting to cycle a shrimp tank (not working at all) and read on multiple occasions that bacteria supplements are almost a requirement. What's the best BB in a bottle to buy? I've heard of multiple kinds working. I already tried Seachem Stability (basically an expensive water...

UPDATE: It turns out that the nitrite bacteria somehow were already there. I tested for nitrates and a reading for 5 ppm showed up, 2 and a half weeks in. I added a bit of Seachem Stability so that may have helped. How long should I wait until I order the crystal reds, considering this a...

About two weeks ago, I set up a tank for Crystal Red shrimp, with some plants, moss, and buffering soil. After setting it up, I added a bit of ammonia to get the cycle going. After two weeks, I'm still not getting any nitrite readings. Any thing I can do to help the cycle? My other tank took...

I use 80 degree water because if I use cold water my water change tubing stiffens up and becomes impossible to use. I then dechlorinate it with Stress Coat+ and leave it overnight to stabilize the pH. I don't top off because the hardness gets too high. Instead, I let it evaporate and then at...

Yup. The females die, but there's no visible sign of molting issues. Plus, I always find the right-sized molt when they die. The ratio of males to females is like 5 to 1. The surviving females hide out in the holes in the dragon rock when they molt. I have gH and kH measurements now, plus a...

I add crushed and dried eggshell to the tank every 2 weeks. Does that work? No parasites that I can see.

I'm receiving a kH and gH test kit tomorrow to check those parameters. My shrimp molt successfully all of the time.

The tank has been running for eight months.