stoned, are you familiar with adding bacteria to shrimp from another colony?
Each shrimp colony ha it's own bacteria. Most times shrimp are able to adjust to new bacteria when new shrimp are introduced, however there are times when the bacteria added from new shrimp is just too much for them to handle and die offs occur.
This is a risk whenever we add new shrimp to an existing colony.
At this point it may be better to wait until next year, or have a Christmas in July. Only 4 members are interested and it's very close to the holidays.
Try an alternate route. Highlight text, control C to copy, then control V to paste.
Don't know why you are having so much problems. (?) Are you using firefox?
Well, like I said. I'm hard headed, but I have other ideas on how to do this. So, either I'll succeed, or I'll fail- but experimentation is one way of gathering knowledge.
I use UP sand, and it goes to 5ish naturally. So I add a pinch of baking soda to bring up the ph. It will go back down, but very slowly and takes time. Then just bump it up again.