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

Too late..went home already.

Water perimeters all normal and is stable the whole time.

I'm using prime for water treatment and nitrates are in check. Those floating plants are brilliant for this.

Anyway, everything looks fine after the weekends. The shrimps are feeding nicely and active though I added some carbon for good measure.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Oct 28 2013, 01:39 PM

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.

I don't think its a bug issue because except the odd seed shrimp, nematode and snail, I didn't see anything else.

I've no idea. I find that they're all ok whenever I totally ignore the tank

But those deaths happened after I clear some algae and did small (like ~5%) water change.

I even drip the top up water slowly.

Btw.. do those nitrate or phosphate absorbing sponge actually work?

Just bought some phosphate sponge pad. See if it works cos my floating plants are expanding like crazy until i'm running out of water surface, also have quite a protein layer and algae is starting to take hold.

You can try moss or non-rooted plants so you can just slowly place in the tank without making a mess and use floating plant to absorb excess nutrients.

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

Might be slowpoke here but just did the first glass cleaning for my MkII tank and tried those Daiso melamine foam as recommended by the singaporeans.

Must say its... AWESOME!!

Need to see them to know if they're still alive or not ma

Still keep one algae wall intact though.

The one I bought is this one... they come with various size and cuts.

For small tank like mine... super convenient... I just cut the block into 2... stick a chopstick into it and it just wipes the algae off like miracle.

Also soaked up that nasty NASTY NASTY hateful protein layer.

It works like an abrasive on microscopic level so while its not suitable for acrylic tanks, it removes algae and even those stains on the water level without much effort. Just wipe and kau tim... plus its cheap.

ps: I can assure you I'm not Daiso salesman

Quick question... downside of carpeting the whole tank with moss is that there's an awful lot of "stuffs" trapped there.

Should I clean them up or just let it be.

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

Congrats on the shrimplets.

My tank is pretty uneventful. Trimming the darn overgrown moss and removing excess flowing plants every couple days and learned that horned nerite snails poo like crazy.

And fighting water surface oil layer.

Short of using a skimmer or air pump (not practical in my case), I've tried manually removing it, I tried the paper towel method, I did water change, I cut down feeding to 20% compared with before (less shrimps now anyway ) but the darn thing reappear every couple days.

Edit: Oh.. and my ongoing battle with leeches.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Nov 18 2013, 02:06 PM

Maybe if I ignore it.. the problem will go away

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Finally spinach is in season here. How long can I keep blanched spinach in the tank before it starts affecting my water quality?