haha, the NA ss19 worker didn't lied, they didn't dose anythings but their SUPPLIER DID, pesticide(esp those contain copper to kill snails) & fert. is be dose like mad to the plants in the farm esp during CNY months.
Rule of shrimps keeping, Never put any new plants/stuff in your tank before testing it with few ghost shrimps or cheap cherry in a bucket first.
if you want plants that is free from pesticide, get from forumer direct from their tank like mr.Jason(Deric79k).

owh.. nowonder.. i dont haveghost shrimps / cherry shrimps to test with yet cause my shamp tank is still cycling.. haha
actually i soaked the plant for a while but oh well now i know who to get from..

thank you

The foreground plants in nano tank of http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumap...-iwagumi-9.html
look more like mini pelia (a type of moss) not HC or glosso, think someone point it out before. HC & glosso seem to need cooler water to growth healthy,
may not achievable in your nano tank unless tank setup in 24 hrs AC room.

2) & 3), just use ADA new amazonia, with this there is more then enough ammonia leeched from the soil to kick start tank cycle till the end.
(test kit, for me i will just test for nitrite after 2 weeks or more, no need to test ammonia cos it guarantee present with amazonia unless be convert to nitrite. so testing for nitrite will also determine whether BB have ammonia under control or not)
4) very subjective and depend on tank condition
5) Pls don't do that in planted tank unless you want to uproot your carpet plants, a well establish beneficial bacteria system will take care of them.
and Goldfish is banned in planted tank cos they will eat all everything's eatable in the tank.
6) For your nano tank either use disposable co2 or invest more for a solenoid controlled compressed C02 system.

This post has been edited by arrow: Feb 23 2013, 02:36 AM

soaking plants with plain water can just remove dirts or some hitchhikers, to remove pesticide & fert, use Activated carbon.

thanks

i hope ghost shrimp wouldnt take a role as gardener to my grass. they like to play there.

ghost shrimps won't eat plants, only red nose shrimps known to do that but ghost shrimps will attack dwarf shrimps(cherry etc)
if not enough to eat. They are good hair algae eater if you starve them.

compatibility between cherry shrimps, ghost & amano shrimps?

owh thanks.

btw why my shrimp always move up and down. but not till the water surface. then mive like that again. but fish is relax. so its not bout oxygen rite?

Ghost and amano shrimps.both are quite aggressive shrimps. Not friendly to dwarf shrimps. Sooner or later if you put them together you will discover their cruelty and regret for the death of your dwarf shrimps.
You can put both ghost and amano together and fun to see them fight/ steal from each others food.

They move like that after you do changes to your tank like adding new plants? Or some of them just molt? male are known to chase after female to mate after female molted.

This post has been edited by arrow: Feb 23 2013, 12:11 PM

both maybe. i plant hc n grass yesterday. they not chasing each other but look like playing with themself. owh maybe they playing with the stream from the filter or something come out from it

i cant be so sure about if they act like that when im at work or not

This post has been edited by syafiq_lomotech: Feb 23 2013, 01:10 PM

maybe pesticide in new plants , fast put in activated carbon into filter.

ok. thanks

owh.. okay.. sorry to annoy but.. for planted tank,

cherry shrimps do clean tanks as good as amano? algae wise..

or shall i just put cherrys & otto in my planted tank.

if you really serious in breeding cherry, planted tank is not very suitable. as plant may need fert and co2, both of it may kill your cherry.
unless you opt for low tech tank with no co2 and no fert..

plus, with heavily planted tank, you may got issue to trace the cherry
just IMHO

owh.. it's memang low tech no co2, no fert
trace you mean spot them or monitor/ count them?

Cherry only have will help 10% compare as Yamato

My planted tank have thousand of cherry. They breed well

Cant compare cos i banned amano long times ago, but i came across some ppl said malayan shrimps is better then amano in controlling algae. However once shrimps getting used to be feed food they become lazy inclearing algae.