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Brolly33 got a reaction from Aquatic Athlete in Please assist me on my water quality..
Low GH (or high GH) can cause moulting problems, which would happen 1 shrimp at a time.
I am leaning towards the change to distilled as the cause. You have a 5 gallon tank. Your water change is 20% (1 gallon) every two weeks.
Changes in water parameters, like that first time you used pure distilled, will frequently trigger breeding (survival instinct... water changing, we might all die off, better breed quick).
Sustained water variability will crash the colony.
Every time you take water out manually, you take minerals out with it. If you don't add them back in, you will eventually drive your GH all the way to 0.
If you are topping off evaporation, then use your pure distilled. Because evaporation leaves the minerals behind, you are restoring the balance.
On water change day, you might want to consider tap water, or remineralize your distilled with one of the fine remineralizers on the market.
Shrimp love consistency.
Slowly raise your GH back to about 5 or 6 and you should recover.
My opinion above is based on reading the internet and running a colony for about 2 years. I crashed a colony of RCS by switching to RO water and not remineralizing. I hope this helps you.
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Brolly33 reacted to TheGardenofEder in My house over 130 shrimp tanks!
Yes control the air around the tanks and you won't need heaters in the tanks or chiller or fans.
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Brolly33 reacted to thekonexperiment in Interesting Youtube Video of Hydra & Planaria
Pretty interesting video. First the narrator talks about Hydra, then Planaria, and also Molting issues for lobsters.. I've pretty much encounter all three issues in my shrimp tanks.
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Brolly33 reacted to OblongShrimp in Reason the forum was down
I switched over to using Amazon S3 this morning. The photo links will likely be broken for a while as the data migrates over to Amazons servers.
I think I have seen other posts about people using CloudFront with IPBoard so if the photos are loading slowly I will look into it more, the IPBoard support said that we shouldn't notice a speed difference.
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Brolly33 reacted to Aquarium Creation in 1st International Shrimp Contest USA
Some pictures and videos. Updating more tomorrow.
https://vimeo.com/190327612
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Brolly33 reacted to OblongShrimp in Reason the forum was down
The forum is hosted by invisionpower (company that develops the ipboard forum software) who also takes care of updates and problems that arise. Additionally it covers the cost of the forum software which you have to purchase if you host on your own server.
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Brolly33 reacted to TheGardenofEder in The Journals of ThegardenofEder
Going to start building up more tanks.
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Brolly33 reacted to Maurice in Maurice's shrimp rack
Hi everybody,
Though it is time for a update, some CRS pictures
My S colony
My SS colony, im working on the Hino/No entry here
and my SSS
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Brolly33 reacted to loverland in Post Your Shrimp Pics
Can anyone tell me if she's berried? [end sarcasm]
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Brolly33 got a reaction from ohmiko in Post Your Shrimp Pics
I wonder if Han takes the clean sticks back for credit? They look brand new after the shrimp finish with them. [emoji851]
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Brolly33 reacted to Mr. F in Post Your Shrimp Pics
It's a shrimpy pop from Han!
http://www.hanaquatics.com/boss-shrimpy-pops/
glad you enjoyed the video! [emoji5]
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Brolly33 got a reaction from Mr. F in Post Your Shrimp Pics
@Mr.F what is that interesting dirty stick that your shrimp cleaned for you? It almost looks like you took a bamboo shish-kabob skewer and left it in a bucket outside for a few months to grow stuff on it as a shrimp treat...
The video was so entertaining that I watched it 4 times.
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Brolly33 got a reaction from fernselvis in Tds from RO unit
I myself add small fertilizer and remineralize in a 5 gallon bottle. Then I do a 10% water change from that container once a week for a month. The incoming and outgoing water are close enough that my shrimp don't seem to mind. My TDS go down about 10 points during the change and my GH does not budge. I could drip it in, but in practice it does not seem to make a difference for me.
I have seen other members like@bostoneric talk about just adding raw RO directly to the tank and adjust with SLAqua Blue Wizard right in the tank, using TDS pen to know when to stop adding.
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Brolly33 got a reaction from Soothing Shrimp in Thank you, ShimpSpot-eers
I have been watching an absolute religious war on the benefits of water changes over on TPT for the last 2 weeks or so. The thread is just full of all the worst kinds of internet zealots.
It made me realize how civilized, open and generally supportive the community here at Shrimp Spot is. And I am grateful for it.
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Brolly33 got a reaction from Mr. F in Thank you, ShimpSpot-eers
I have been watching an absolute religious war on the benefits of water changes over on TPT for the last 2 weeks or so. The thread is just full of all the worst kinds of internet zealots.
It made me realize how civilized, open and generally supportive the community here at Shrimp Spot is. And I am grateful for it.
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Brolly33 got a reaction from Shrimpsicle in Thank you, ShimpSpot-eers
I have been watching an absolute religious war on the benefits of water changes over on TPT for the last 2 weeks or so. The thread is just full of all the worst kinds of internet zealots.
It made me realize how civilized, open and generally supportive the community here at Shrimp Spot is. And I am grateful for it.
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Brolly33 got a reaction from EricM in Thank you, ShimpSpot-eers
I have been watching an absolute religious war on the benefits of water changes over on TPT for the last 2 weeks or so. The thread is just full of all the worst kinds of internet zealots.
It made me realize how civilized, open and generally supportive the community here at Shrimp Spot is. And I am grateful for it.
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Brolly33 got a reaction from Revaria in Thank you, ShimpSpot-eers
I have been watching an absolute religious war on the benefits of water changes over on TPT for the last 2 weeks or so. The thread is just full of all the worst kinds of internet zealots.
It made me realize how civilized, open and generally supportive the community here at Shrimp Spot is. And I am grateful for it.
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Brolly33 got a reaction from LiveLee Aquatics in Thank you, ShimpSpot-eers
I have been watching an absolute religious war on the benefits of water changes over on TPT for the last 2 weeks or so. The thread is just full of all the worst kinds of internet zealots.
It made me realize how civilized, open and generally supportive the community here at Shrimp Spot is. And I am grateful for it.
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Brolly33 got a reaction from EricM in Tds from RO unit
I myself add small fertilizer and remineralize in a 5 gallon bottle. Then I do a 10% water change from that container once a week for a month. The incoming and outgoing water are close enough that my shrimp don't seem to mind. My TDS go down about 10 points during the change and my GH does not budge. I could drip it in, but in practice it does not seem to make a difference for me.
I have seen other members like@bostoneric talk about just adding raw RO directly to the tank and adjust with SLAqua Blue Wizard right in the tank, using TDS pen to know when to stop adding.
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