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Thank you for your response! Checking it out right now.

Before I get into my question, let me give you some background. I have a 5.5 gallon planted tank for the crabs with hanging plants, hiding places, all peaceful tank mates (horned nerites, 1 scarlet badis, 1 asian stone catfish, cherry shrimp, amano shrimp, various micro organisms like seed...

Nitrates are 5ppm I change 15% of water every 2-3 weeks because it’s an under stocked shrimp tank with 2 tiny fish making most of the waste. The TDS of the water I add beforehand is 16 it’s reverse osmosis.

I have a 5.5 Gallon shrimp tank that had about 12 cherry shrimp, 1 amano shrimp, 1 asian stone catfish and 1 scarlet badis . About a week ago I started having some deaths. 3 of the shrimp randomly died and I couldn’t find any reason why. A few days later so did the asian stone catfish who had...