A painful experience on soil

[Navanod]

Just curious, the boss offering to compensate Aurora blue or CRS? So I assume the shop is GC? Or is there other shops that carries Aurora blue shrimps also? If other shop care to share where? If not convinenent to share here can PM me?

Don't get me wrong bro, I think we should not keep asking about the shop on this thread, since the boss is pretty decent to help chansl out. It's more of the soil's problem than the shop's.

On top of that, if one is really curious, better to directly PM chansl instead of speculating first then taking it private. Kinda leaves the named shop hanging.
I don't think GC would promote GEX and other soil when their main soils are Borneowild and Benibachi but now even I am not sure. Haha

[RonWill]

Just curious, the boss offering to compensate Aurora blue or CRS?

Aurora Blue or Aura Blue??? IIRC, GC used to have a few tiny packs of GEX substrate but nothing close to even a kilo, so it's possibly some other LFS.

Still, it's noteworthy how soil alone can have such a major impact on the hobby.

[Zenith82]

Bro Navanod, I totally understand. Sorry about it, not that I want to flame the LFS or anything like that.
I just curious because I know GC don't really carry those products. I more keen to know where else can get the Aura Blue shrimps. Because so far I only know GC have.

Oops sorry, Ron it's Aura Blue. I have to say soil played an important role in keeping shrimps.

[felix_fx2]

I never saw gex substrate on my last visit (actually 2nd visit) to GC for red nose (which was out of stock -_-).
IMHO substrate, filtration are core foundation for tank.

[Navanod]

No need to apologize bro, we are all curious by nature here. As long as we avoid any misconceptions. Heh.

Strangely, some places do not care so much about substrate and prefer inert substrate.

[chansl]

Hi Bros

The place is Superstar Aquarium at Tamp area .. Near CRS haven .. The guy is really nice and friendly. He really like a hobbist as compared to a merchant because he always like to teach people things and even open new product to show people how it works . I told him to bring in aura blue and he said if the response is good, he will bring in more ..

[Draka]

The boss is quite nice and friendly, albeit a tad talkative sometimes. Yep, he can be really quite helpful sometimes, especially with regards to trying his best to answer your queries on any of the products to the best of his knowledge and ordering stuff in.

[chansl]

I fully agree with you .. Sometime i will stay at his shop and chat for hours .. lol .. I wonder when can we have an excursion to superstar aquarium

The boss is quite nice and friendly, albeit a tad talkative sometimes. Yep, he can be really quite helpful sometimes, especially with regards to trying his best to answer your queries on any of the products to the best of his knowledge and ordering stuff in.

[stormhawk]

Still, it's noteworthy how soil alone can have such a major impact on the hobby.

People become overly reliant on soil alone these days..

Ron, time to package plant soil as shrimp soil.

[Draka]

Haha it does seem the simplest method. What other ways can we go about doing it other than peat and ketapang?

[cheetf]

I won't say the simplest method but more like the longest sustainable method.

Adding chemicals to change the composition of the water is one option but there is much measuring involved to get it right, what makes it worse is that some additives do not change the parameters in a linear fashion.

The source as in our tap water seems to change depending on the time of the year, making the task even more difficult.

After all that you have to make sure the shrimp can take the chemicals that you add in.

You can always add drift wood, peat and ketapang but you get the side effect of tannins that make your water yellow.

[Draka]

Ah I see. Thanks!