to prevent transferring the planaria?
-Then get a small bucket put a little clean moss or plastic mesh in it, carefully scoop some water from the fire yellow tank into it, then net all the fire yellow into this bucket. careful not to take any plant/moss/soil with it.
-Acclimate the fire yellow using drip method.
-Use a new or clean net , ONLY net all the fire yellow into their new tank, don't take anything else including the moss in the bucket and water throw it away.
-This will minimize the % of transferring the planaria.

Don't why it is the address you give of your workplace is incorrect or what, the trace for the parcel never move.
See if you able to receive the parcel envelop tomorrow or not.

Why?

It's way down there next to gravel where the shrimps can't really get to.

i also want to find stainless steel mesh
but didnt find at hardware shop at my place...

Just saw one of the shrimps flip upside down. Have removed it and found this next it

Looks like a leech and it can swim in S pattern. It's between 1cm to 3cm (when stretched)

The photo is when it stretched itself. Is this the killer?

Just saw one of the shrimps flip upside down. Have removed it and found this next it

Looks like a leech and it can swim in S pattern. It's between 1cm to 3cm (when stretched)

The photo is when it stretched itself. Is this the killer?

Craps.. another dead shrimp. 2 in a day!!!

Too late..went home already.

Leech are hitchhiking on plants and sometime on shrimp you bought.
They won't suddenly be born out of the soil. Feeding live food is one of the possible way to bring them into tank too.

yes, they also known as crayfish, their easy but mine all died due to neglect.

lot of ppl use 100% RO water for their high value crs tank, adjust the mineral and tds by using additives.
You can do that with adding RO water during water change like 10% each time, but sooner or later tds will drop if don't have stuff to keep the tds slowly increase like mineral stone.
with the frequent water change, else can add in some mineral powder during the water change to compensate. Beside TDS, gh will also be affected.

Update to my last post on the leech. Had another death yesterday and today, one of the shrimps looks like its in trouble too. Lethargic and got swept by weak current.

My tank so far so good . just dropped 5 red cherry to test first .

Still no plant as the person told me quite troublesome , is it ?

Good question... I suspect my LFS has been supplying me with Japanese shrimps!! They're not interested in sex.

This is the second so blue Transparent blue malaya that i saw so far . Very Nice.

Indeed, could hardly to see them transform into such colors. Depends the mood of the shrimps, lol.

My water temp is 27'c and pH 6.5-7 most of the time. Didn't check on GH and nitrates, just assume it's good as there's no casualties for Malaya and Fire Red. This is the second time it turns.

Here's my crowded tank, mostly Java moss, bit of Flame moss, Fissiden and etc..

Water change, weekly 30-40%

Food- Each day one of these, takes turn.
1. Barley
2. Borneo Wild- Color
3. Borneo Wild- Grow

my 2nd day shrimp. hopefully all smooth sailing.

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

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

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