I normally fill up bottles and add a few drops of dechlorine for at least one day before using it.

siphon out during water change.

What rock is that?

Using RO in my case. Usually fill it up on the UP Aqua 6L bucket and necessary amount of Prime for 6L... stir, cover it with saran wrap and wait for the next wc. The bucket is really useful IMO... it's quick to drain the water out, but takes me 2hrs+ to refill it back as I only turn the tap slightly.

Nice... what shrimp is that?

How you doing Sis? Still active here I see...

Well here's a quickie on my shrimps feasting. Lost a handsome fire red male & a female recently but the rest are still doing good *thankfully* Pardon the condensation on the tank and shaky vid


EDIT: Link fixed

The remaining handsome prince & the one that went to 'heaven' (rubbish bin):



This post has been edited by GTBlackIce: Nov 12 2013, 06:13 PM

GTBlackIce, your fixed video link:



This post has been edited by arrow: Nov 12 2013, 05:44 PM

wow
so nice...
i hope i can rear shrimp in my tank like u guys...

This ?


What's WC ?

Opps... haha... thanks much bro am a noob in youtube stuff. Thanks for fixing it!

Let's see if this one works... EDIT: OK it seems to work now...lol



Thanks... still very much a noob in this and I'm sure you can!

Yeaps... that one there. Very convenient thing to have. Can move away and do other stuff while letting it re-fill itself. Get the 6L version... 1L is too freaking small.

WC = Water Change

This post has been edited by GTBlackIce: Nov 12 2013, 06:13 PM

not very sure, just got it from lfs. quite cheap but some do give out white powder.

Did you test if affects water quality? Some stones do.

i dun have testing kit yet. i chose the lease powderless ones to put into the tank.
i guess i will take out the stone after saw some post on the planted tank thread. luckly saw those post else i would have been clueless what happen to the tank.

This post has been edited by tjay_tj: Nov 13 2013, 08:28 AM

Do try to invest on test kit if you can.
IF you want TDS pen too... look at ebay. I got mine from there...cheap!

Think you can get a wider view of the stones you have in there? If it's still in the tank that is...
What shrimps you have/intend to have in it?

currently i only have 5 of mix breed of fire/cherry shrimp after asking for a few time to the owner of lfs to sell some to me. plan to try and see hw these 5 will turn out to be before advance further.

at the moment those 5 shrimp turn out ok, keep taking turn molting these few days taking turn and i found 2 molt just now when i take out the stone. i guess my water tank condition are better then the lfs ones.
as for the test kit. really plan to have it but atm the budget is limiting me.

It seems around less than $10 for the pen , but all from china

Tried to find it locally but can't get it .

You may try at fish depot in subang.

Hi....Logically water is like "air" to breathe for shrimps, for human we need oxygen to breathe. So we cant simply add or put what we think nice or good for our eyes cause it might poison them.

So be very careful in what you putting in your tank for shrimp so you wont cry later when you see your shrimp dying.

We all had experiences before and we are advising.

Wah so nice.....

I have been busy

I have few casualty too but so far so good.

Wow talk about bright lights! Haha... sorry too bright can't see clearly but seems to be somewhat similar to the ones I have?

If they're molting well it should be fine. Yes, you'd be surprised to know sometimes our tank's water parameters are better than lfs'.

Well since budget is limiting, then you can use this 5 shrimps as your commandos. If they survive then you can hold off from buying till your budget is ok. API freshwater test kit would be the complete set without GH tester. The kit will cost RM1xx though...

IF there's any sudden deaths (hopefully not), get the Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate test kits first.

Got mine about US$7.xx for each (PH & TDS pen)... free postage. It was from different sellers though. Both cost me <RM50. BUT... yes here comes the 'but'.... be patient in receiving it. It took me a month before I was able to receive it, since it was free postage it was sent by snail mail. And yes again, both are from China. Exact version (who knows maybe pirated version) like the one I saw @ LFS. Even the staff at LFS could not believe the price I got it for as it was a real steal... their prics is unfortunately

Sis... not Subang leh.... Aman Suria...

Where got nice? Yours nicer... not a 'breeder' like you...

Yeah likewise been busy especially last week...

So far population still OK albeit a couple of casualties... but birth rate is higher than death rate so that's a good thing!

This post has been edited by GTBlackIce: Nov 13 2013, 04:12 PM

so true, end up taking all the stone off the tank already. after that i found that it give off white powder also. so now the tank left only soil and 1 bunch of moss only.

haha. only phone cam with me. sorry for the blury phone . yup, should be similar to you. maintaining water quality/hardness without those testing kit are much harder hence those stone have been removed.