Amyers22

pretty simple:
 
if the water under test has GH4.01, it won't change color when you add 4 drops. it would change when you add 5th drop.
if the water under test has GH4.99, it won't change color when you add 4 drops. it would change when you add 5th drop.
 
so you add 5 drops and color changed, the range could be 4.01 to 4.99, in short GH4-GH5.
 
Another way to look at it.
the pure water has GH0. so you add one drop. doesn't mean pure water has GH1? no. it's range is 0-1.
 
If you double the water volume, now you can identify the range 4.0-4.5 and 4.5-5.0. by divide the drops by 2.

I use jewelry digital scale with resolution of 0.001 gram.
 
http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Weigh-GEM20-Precision-Milligram/dp/B00ESHDGOI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1441059568&sr=8-4&keywords=jewelry+scale
 
It never fails me.
 
Just cut piece of Aluminum foil and put on the scale.

So, my progress has been very slow and I haven't had anything new to really post about until today. I finally got my first berried taiti yesterday. It is one of the yellows. There's about 13 shrimp in the yellow tank and about half are females. I have more which I still need to transfer over. Hopefully within the next week a few more berried shrimp will show up. The original parents (there are 2 of them) are both berried at the moment. They have given me between 4-5 clutches of eggs each since March. Here's a not so good pic of the new berried yellow taitibee.

paracaridina

This is very exciting! She has red eggs!

Red pinto mama.

My favorite blue bolt mama. 

A few from my wine red breeding project.

Yes, I used the macro lens. The only think I don't like about it is that the shrimp have to be half an inch or closer to the glass to get the picture. If they are too far away its blurry and of they are too close it's blurry unless you pull your phone back a bit. My tip for myself is patience, haha. I just have to wait until they get close enough to the glass for me to take a picture.

Here's a few more...

[emoji1] Most shrimps aren't kept in ideal parameters that is favorable for them to look their best. Many believe surviving = good. But survive doesn't always means thriving. Thriving shrimps will almost always look amazing and you're a are looking pretty amazing.
If you continue the good work, your Taiwan Bee will all look amazing. You'll be able to sell them as shadows which fetch a much higher price. [emoji7]

I got my new macro lens in the mail yesterday. Here are a few shrimp shots The berried shadow panda you see is the berried BKK panda I had pictured in my first post. Turns out she was supposed to be blue!

I got my new macro lens in the mail yesterday. Here are a few shrimp shots The berried shadow panda you see is the berried BKK panda I had pictured in my first post. Turns out she was supposed to be blue!

I got my new macro lens in the mail yesterday. Here are a few shrimp shots The berried shadow panda you see is the berried BKK panda I had pictured in my first post. Turns out she was supposed to be blue!

Some shrimp of my medium quality tank, but they still look nice.
 

 

 

 

Hey Shrimpspot!
 
I have the great opportunity to test the Shrimpy Daddy product line. This came at the perfect time as my two new shrimp tanks just finished cycling. I decided to test these products on my new Blue Bolt shrimp tank as I separated them out from my original Taiwan Bee colony.
 
As this Blue Bolt tank just finished cycling I used the guidelines listed on the Shrimpy Daddy website: "Water Restarting Procedure". As the conversion from liters to gallons are almost never whole numbers I did my best to come as close as possible.
 
Quick Specs of Tank:
17.1g Mr. Aqua Aquarium Micmol Aqua Mini Color LED Eheim 2213 Filter with Purigen and Biological Media Controsoil "Fine" Black substrate
 
Here are my test subjects:
 
Day 1



 

I could take pictures of this momma all day.

And this new little aqua blue bolt! Thanks Shrimpscales for exceptionally beautiful shrimp! (Blue bolt momma came from him too)

AND this new little Aqua blue bolt

Tonight I noticed one of my Taitibees has developed a darker orange coloration. The first picture is from the my first post. It was taken 15 minutes after the shrimp were introduced to the tank.

The second picture is from this evening, 5 days after introducing them to the tank.

Tonight I noticed one of my Taitibees has developed a darker orange coloration. The first picture is from the my first post. It was taken 15 minutes after the shrimp were introduced to the tank.

The second picture is from this evening, 5 days after introducing them to the tank.

My speckled pink Taitibee looking great after molting!

My speckled pink Taitibee looking great after molting!

Here's a few random shots of some of my tibee.

It has been three days since I introduced my shrimp back to the tank. I have noticed a difference in several of my shrimp's coloration. I first noticed the change in my Wine Red Extreme. Today I noticed a difference in one of my Blue Bolts. This first picture was taken fifteen minutes after introducing the shrimp back to the tank. You can see this picture in my first post.

The second picture was taken this afternoon.