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  1. Help :(

    in Care, feeding and breeding

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    Retest your water parameters again please. To me, it seems that something is not right there. From what you said, "There's also an Indian almond leaf in the tank as well as alder cones, cholla logs, and spider wood" it sounds like you got a lot of stuff in the tank that could be polluting it.

    Here's a picture of the tank. I'm checking my parameters now.

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  2. Help :(

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    FTS full tank shot.

    Does not sound like a molting issue.

    Could be the additives. What is the tds of the water after you remineralize your ro water?

    How ofter do you water changes? Unless you have a high bioload you don't need to change the water that often.

    After I remineralize my TDS is usually 140-145 in the container. After adding it to the tank it is around 150. About two weeks ago I lowered my GH from an 8 to a 6 with five total water changes over the course of 10 days with pure RO and a small amount of TDS up to keep me TDS stable. I know that caused stress.

  3. Help :(

    in Care, feeding and breeding

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    It sounds like you have a problem with your water.

    You said the antenna are fuzzy looking. Can you get a picture ?

    How large is your tank ? Last water change? Any babies in the tank?

    How old is the tank? What additives do you add to the water ?

    Sorry for all the questions. Can you get a FTS ?

    The tank is a 20 gallon long. It's been running since March. My last water change was 4 days ago. The only additives in the tank are mosura TDS up and MK blue diamond to add minerals back to the RO. There's also an Indian almond leaf in the tank as well as alder cones, cholla logs, and spider wood. I have around 30 babies in the tank ranging from 3 days old to 1 month old.

    I tried to take a picture, but my iPhone won't focus close enough to see the antennae. When I first looked at them they just looked thicker. When I looked very closely I could see that they seemed to have a fine film or clearish white fuzz on them. I'll try again to see if I can get a good enough picture.

    What is an FTS?

    There's no other shrimp that look pink, but there are a few other shrimp with the fuzzy antennae. Three of them are berried and i believe that's why they haven't been able to molt it off like the other shrimp did. I just don't know what it is. I've been taking the molts out of the tank just in case.

  4. Help :(

    in Care, feeding and breeding

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    Okay so a few weeks ago I posted that I had a CRS that looked a little odd and I was questioning if my shrimp may have a bacterial infection. Well today I had a shrimp die unexpectedly. It looked a little pink. And I have noticed a few shrimp that have fuzzy looking antennae. Nothing else on them is fuzzy and I haven't seen any white things sticking off their rostrum or anything. And I have one shrimp that is berried that has fuzzy antennae and they look shorter than they used to be. I also found one more shrimp that is acting very sluggish and looks a little pink. I'm thinking it may die. What is going on with my shrimp? What should I do from here? I don't really have another tank I could throw the healthy (or unhealthy) looking shrimp in. What does this sound like? How should I treat it? Please give me some suggestions on what to do. I have 90+ shrimp and have invested a lot of money into the tank. I know we have all had something go wrong before, but I would be devastated to lose some of these shrimp. There are a few other shrimp in the tank that could look questionable.

    If this is bacterial how is it spread? If I don't allow the bodies to be eaten by the other shrimp and I lower the temperature could I irradicate this? Also i should mention I had one shrimp that had the fuzzy antennae and when it molted their antennae were no longer fuzzy and the molt still have the antennae that looked fuzzy. I read somewhere that this could be an algae growth. However the berried female I have has not been able to molt and her antennae are definitely different lengths and shorter. She does not look pink. And neither did the other shrimp that molted off the fuzzies.

    My water parameters are as follows:

    Temp: 73.2

    pH: 6.5

    GH: 6

    TDS: 150

    Ammonia: 0

    Nitrite: 0

    Nitrate: 0

    I should also mention that as of last night I had 21 berried females. All the babies are living and growing well. I have to be doing something right, right?

  6. Shrimp Paradise App

    in Lounge

    Posted

    Okay now I do have a real question. How do you setup your layout. It won't let me move things. Everything I put in the tank goes right in the middle of the tank and won't allow me to place it somewhere

  11. 8.6 gallon what tank

    in General Discussion

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    I have around $120 ish for shrimp. Not to say id rather buy than trade but I would prefer to trade. I don't really wanna go the mischling route but rather go straight to Taiwan bees

    A lot of members on here sell Black King Kong Pandas and the prices are great. You could probably get 10 shipped for around $120.

    Check with Shrimpscales. He sells beautiful shrimp and may be interested in trading.

    You could also get a mix of Taiwan bees for around $120 shipped if you got 5-7 shrimp.

  13. Red Pintos

    in The Marketplace

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    I think you would have a hard time finding those American bred. They are very expensive no matter where you get them. Joes would probably be your best option if you do want to purchase some. He is doing his next import next month.

    Oh okay! Thank you :)

  14. Red Pintos

    in The Marketplace

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    Those are German Zebra Pintos. I know Joe's Aquarium sells them.

    Thank you! I wasn't quite sure of the name. Joe's Aqua sent me their price list a few days ago and they are currently out of them.

    Is there a thread somewhere that lists the different types of pintos with pictures? I feel like there's more types than I realized.

  17. Drip Acclimation Time

    in Care, feeding and breeding

    Posted

    I usually just do 2 hours max on sensitive shrimps..(BKK,OEBT,SSS CRS, BB) no casualties! I do about 1 drop every 3 second as well.. Once the water has been doubled I usually move them over.

    I do the same thing. I make sure the water has at least doubled. On more sensitive shrimp I let it triple. Usually takes about 2 hours and sometimes a little more.

  23. Bottled water

    in Substrates and Water Chemistry

    Posted

    Here's the tds results for a few drinking waters that were tested. Because their tds is low I'd choose one of these for my shrimp.

    Aquafina TDS- 0

    Arrowhead Distilled TDS- 0

    Penta TDS- 0

    Green Planet TDS- 3

    711 Purified water TDS 5

    Evian TDS = 277

    Sorry for the upside down pics. Don't know why this happens sometimes

    Thanks for the info! Now I'll know what to grab if I'm in this predicament again! :)

  24. Bottled water

    in Substrates and Water Chemistry

    Posted

    The minerals arent harmful but you are topping off with hard water. If you had to use bottled water of some kind you would want to use distilled or RO bottled water. WalMart sells "drinking water" that is RO filtered and has TDS of around 4.

    That's what I usually purchase. I think I pay 80 cents for a gallon. I ran out yesterday and forgot to run to Walmart. I'm making a trip there this evening. I'll just top off when I get home.

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