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in a 20 gallon when i switched from gravel to Eco Complete, I just used a wet/dry vac to remove the gravel and all the crap in it. I didn't cloud up the water hardly at all, and i didn't vacuum as much water out with the gravel as I thought I would have. Severe reduction to snail population...

Can anyone recommend a good online source that sells tissue cultured plants?

they seem to eat most plants except anubias or java moss. Haven't seem them go after the hornwort YET

My orange rabbit snails eat pond snail eggs . Last year had some pond snails and they laid eggs. I would just pull the pond snails out whenever I saw them and the rabbit snail were eating the eggs. I haven't seen a pond snail in over 6 months Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Congrats on your super shrimp tank. I had 5 rummy nose in my my 40 and got tired of them picking on the shrimps. They cherry shrimps and tiger shrimps were not breeding. Back in March I evicted the rummynose tetras and now just have 4 amanos, a bristlenose Pleco, some nerites, and a bunch of...

How long has this tank been up and running? Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

Depending on your filter type, there's a few folks that make stainless steel mesh filter guards that go over the intake. You are correct the filter won't pick up some of the solid waste with panty hose. The shrimp will probably figure out some good stuff collects on the pantyhose to and...

I've never paid any attention to the store name but 25 cents a gallon is the normal price at any water store I've been to. A quick yelp search will show several in the San Diego area. I'm keeping shrimp in a 5 five gallon planted. I do a 50/50 mix of tap and RO. so my water changes are...

Water stores in Los Angeles sell RO for 25 cents per gallon. TDS where I buy is 4ppm Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

I have a Cherry shrimp that started out red and a couple months ago it turned black with a skunk stripe??? I figured it was going to die. You could stare at the tank for days and never see this shrimp. But when you put food in, she appears magically out of nowhere. On Monday this week we...

Get a few bathtubs, depending on size they hold 50-80 gallons. For the pleco start supplementing his diet with cucumber and zuchini or other veggies

In my 40 gallon I started to get a little black algae, so before it got out of control I did the following: 5 day blackout with a daily 10 gallon water change, only fed the tank 1 time during the blackout. After that I kept the lights on only 6 hours a day. ( evenings) I added 4 Amano shrimp in...

I'm sure there is but I'm no expert. I've previously read a couple articles but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort unless you're doing it to sell them or you need to raise feeder shrimp to feed a large aquarium stock. I have a couple that were berried a couple times. Then one day i woke...

They can become berried in freshwater but the larve wont survive.

Right now i have plain old aquarium gravel from petco. This didn't start out as a shrimp tank. It was a refugee tank when assassin snails were bugging the rabbit snails and nerites. Now its evolved into a shrimp tank.