Can I dose everything or are they the same? Old sea mud, mineral rock, mineral plus

[Mookie]

After my RCS all died in my planted tank, I decided to setup another tank strictly for shrimps. So damn kiasu now haha currently have crushed corals, old sea mud, mineral rock, and mineral plus, should I dose all as per instructions? Or are they all the same thing? Can some shrimp pro advice thanks!

Also do I need anything else? I'm just keeping painted fire red..

[Naraki]

So many minerals inside. I'm not too sure if that's too much. If you have a mineral rock. You pretty much don't need any others.

Coral chips will raise GH. Mineral rocks will also raise GH IF i'm not wrong. So many items that is increasing GH. By how much, i'm not too sure.

[Mookie]

Ok noted, just wanted to be sure. Looks like the rest I can put up on market place soon

[Naraki]

You might want to wait awhile more to hear from other views. They may have better solution or same with my opinion. I'm very sure coral chips raise gh

[burp]

High GH will cause molting issues. That's what happening to my tank now.

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[Subdave]

Too much of a good thing becomes bad?

[burp]

Too much of something. .. It's bad in love. . Remember the song? Lol

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[burp]

I think you should constantly monitor it. But crushed corals from what I've read from many brothers here seems to be a no no.

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[Urban Aquaria]

Just mineral rocks will be sufficient, they slowly release the beneficial minerals that shrimps need and can actually use, so the pH and GH will be kept stable and not spike unpredictably. Since you are keeping RCS, this is already like providing them with 5-star hotel treatment... in such environments with optimal mineral content, they will be active, molt properly and maintain healthy shiny shells.

Coral chips tend to be rather tricky to use, they can cause rapid swings in pH and GH so not recommended unless you can keep checking constantly the water conditions to make sure its okay.

[Mookie]

Will heed bros advice here and not be so kiasu, just stick to mineral rocks then. But how much PH increase can I expect? Currently, my PH is 6.4.

Hotel treatment haha but becos I had 25 RCS and now they extinct in my tank, I feel pretty bad and want to get it right this time round with my shrimp only tank

[Urban Aquaria]

For my tanks, i didn't spot any changes in the pH when i added the minerocks, i guess the soil's buffer is stronger than the rocks. Anyways you only need to put in a small 100-150 gram piece of mineral rock to provide sufficient beneficial minerals for a 2ft tank, so its not that large to affect parameters noticeably.