Day 37:
Saw the remaining shrimps all lying dead.
Something must be terribly wrong.
I measured again and the water parameter is the same as yesterday.
Researching on what else could be wrong.
Day 37:
Saw the remaining shrimps all lying dead.
Something must be terribly wrong.
I measured again and the water parameter is the same as yesterday.
Researching on what else could be wrong.
from 14L to 8L tank.
Sad to hear that. You using API 5 in 1 test kit right? Maybe ammonia spike causes the death on your RCS. Do you do 20% water changes for your small tank? I notice that you are using Azoo bio media right? Hmm, last time i use this brand too. But after that, i change to Seachem matrix.
Maybe it time for you to invest a bigger tank, i will suggest a 2FT. The water parameter will be more stable.
Sorry to hear that. The same thing happened to me with my 5 litre tank used to keep RCS at room temperature too. I have since changed it over to live in my 24 litre tank and they have done so much better. I'm convinced that the lack of space means water parameters get unstable quickly. My RCS are now doing very well now, no deaths since I switched.
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Thanks for sharing.
I bought an ammonia kit and it's showing 0.
I did 10% WC recently. Used to be slightly more.
I chose this media because it has numerous function and what i liked most is that it looks like "natural" stone to me.
My far future plan is a 4ft tank on low tech planted tank.
Not anytime soon though.
So I am again trying such small tank for time being.
I also invested on a TDS meter and it read 113. It has thermometer and it read 29 degree.
I might want to try a cooling fan as the last resort.
Just don't get it what really went wrong.
from 14L to 8L tank.
Bro I noticed that your gh is 0? Last time when mine as at 3 I had tons of molting issue until I I up to 6.
I prefer shrimp with ph around 6.5ph... they survive better...
ADA soil... hehee...
You can actually copy Evil train... he put the soil in a container and left it aside.. this way will not mess up the tank and provide the buffer...
Ok, tank has been reset and rescaped.
Bought a bag of 10 fire red and 3 already died before transferring to tank.
Rescape:
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Acclimatised the shrimp
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Shrimps in:
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from 14L to 8L tank.
Only 1 out of 7 survived.
I used GH builder as an attempt to raise it. I tried to increase it by 1 ppm per day. Probably i miscalculated, on the day when I saw multiple death, i measured the GH and it was 10ppm!
I did a water change and introduced a few things.
1.
Since I have soil now, I decided to plant a few more plants and remove the fissidens and moss ball.
2.
I have bought a fan now. I was able to bring the temperature down to 27 degree celsius.
I bought Seachem Flourish and am dosing it every 2 weeks.
3.
Bought a bag of 10 sunkist shrimps.
4.
Water top up will be bottled distilled water.
Will be monitoring it and see how it goes this round.
Readings:
GH 6ppm
KH 0
pH 6.5
NO2 0
NO3 40
NH3 0
TDS 224
Pictures:
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from 14L to 8L tank.
Hopefully this batch will be ok
That shit Cray!
I facing problem with my CRS... TDS 240.. Now changing 5% of my water every 2 day to reduce it below 200....
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