Re: Beginner to Shrimps keeping
Hi bro, firstly, you might want to consider cycling your tank ? We shrimp keeper can't emphasize on how important this is. Shrimps are way more sensitive comparing to fishes - always provide the best environment for your pet ehh.
Cycling - what it does is it helps to build up beneficial bacteria which will breaks down the waste into less harmful nitrates and nitrites ( please read up on cycling and nitrogen cycle). When the waste is being broken down, the plants will then be able to absorb the nitrates and nitrites. The death of your shrimps might be because that there aren't enough beneficial bacteria without proper cycling and hence causes high amount of nitrate and nitrite.
Bro nitrates, nitrites and ammonia should be kept to minimum so as to ensure the survival of your shrimps. All these can only be achieve through proper cycling, or unless you already have cycled bio media in your filter.
As for test kit wise, I would recommend to use those specific test kit which require you to take the water and put into the test tube and drip the solution to see the color changes ( maybe like the tetra test kit) - try not to get those paper kind, as they will test till you are crossed eye and you still can't make out the exact ppm of nitrate etc - moreover test strips are known to be less accurate.
As for anti chlorine, do check what brand you are using as not all are suitable for shrimps. There alot more things to learn other than just the temperature for CRS - what do you mean by good for them ? Thing like GH, kH and PH also plays an important role to shrimp keeping.
My best advice is to start reading up more on the shrimps you would like to keep, cycling and then try to ask question from there. It's pretty hard to explain everything to you from nothing.
I am no expert, just some random guy offering my 2 cents.
Been awhile since i last kept shrimps/ fishes, please give me your kind guidance!
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