1) ask colleague to help feed.
2)Use auto feeder
3)If tank got enough algae, no need feed.
4)Any food that won't go spoil if put in your auto water top-up system?
5)Feed them before you see them the last time, one week is not too long or short , the may make it.

U can send to me...i look after for u...lol

Thanks... hope they get can through this challenge.

Ehhh how long do the shrimplets take to grow?

Had a casualty today. My Malayan shrimp was upside down (and barely moving) and its colour is orange-white, macam steamed prawns What happened

This post has been edited by -kytz-: Sep 15 2013, 01:01 PM

~Ketapang leave
~Sera Super Peat
~Co2
But the best and long term way is to add shrimps soil like benibachi fulvic soil.

Whts the tds meter for? Also Kh and gh individual tester for?

Btw found snail trap at fish depot...

This post has been edited by lily64my: Sep 16 2013, 12:34 PM

Normal. Death shrimps body color will change to total orange after few hours no matter what the actual color are.
Kyte. You doing major replanting and and disturb
the substrate. Ammonia may spike.

after my colony got wiped out except for 6 shrimp. now 3 out of the 6 are berried oh yeah! time to rebuild!

Keep up , one mama got at least 30 baby , you got 90 or more coming. Time to grow more green algae.
Shrimplets like that.

Good good!

Yes they like it...i hv them in both tank!

~use RO or distilled water to do water change.
~Check your tank, remove all coral stone/limestone if you have any.
~for crs tank, GH is also very important, your tds of 185 is suitable for high end crs like benibachi shrimps but
but normal local crs a tds of 120~130 is more suitable. Maintain a GH of 4.

yes, using RO or distilled water is the safest most effective way.
Lava rock, depend which type, some do increase PH , not all are neutral.
Try with RO water first, but you must know RO water is without any mineral etc, you may need to re-mineralize it.

This post has been edited by arrow: Sep 17 2013, 12:24 AM

normally add mineral powder or liquid like mosura mineral plus.
You can use Vinegar , drip a few drop on the rock, if bubble form or sizzling/hissing sound , then this stone will increase ph,tds,gh.

90?! my tank is so small though... i guess i will go out to buy a marimo. they should like that. hehe.

The water machine , don't know how pure the water is as the filter seem never be washed, if your tank is not that big
, can buy those 10L bottled water , let said your tank is 2ft 60L after minus substrate and blank space on top of tank.
should be like 50L++ , a 10L water change = 20% ,should be enough to see the tds down.
remove the lava rock then as they as of not much use anyway.
What soil you using now ? if ADA soil , PH still 7.5 , that mean the buffering power is long gone, not suitable for CRS.
Better re-setup with shrimps soil like benibachi fulvic soil. Pls stay away from Help Shrimps soil if possible.

some may not make it. 90 not many as they take time to grow up.
Don't simply add new plants, else be wiped out again.

This post has been edited by arrow: Sep 17 2013, 12:30 PM

yeah thats what im afraid off also. but i dont really have much moss or algae in my tank. previously when all wiped out was during a small heatwave. so a lot of that life kinda also died off. will need to consider getting a larger tank eheh.

if change , one shot , get a 2ft or 3ft, 2ft can fit 300~500 , 3ft over 1000.
China that hot during summer?, i keep fire red before inside a room temp 29-31'c . They survive.

This post has been edited by arrow: Sep 17 2013, 01:58 PM