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  4. My Sulawesi Shrimp Set Up.

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    Tank:

    JBJ 12 gallon XD (used a lot for reef tanks)

    Light: i took the florescent tubes out, creates a huge amount of heat specially if lid is left closed (thanks Hung!) So i installed idea LED's, the tank it self comes with small ''night time blue leds'' those i leave on pretty much all day.

    Substrate & rocks: ADA Mekong sand (inert stuff) petrified wood (as well inert... as far as i know...) and then a texas holey rock (a rock usually used for cichilds)

    Filtration: I took the pump and decreased the flow rate like a lot! these shrimp don't like fast moving waters. i keep lots of pourus media in the back. I have covered the filter intake with a sponge to avoid losing the microscopic shrimplets.

    Heater: fluval E series temp kept at 27-28.9 C

    Chemicals: i only use SS sulawesi 8,5 and i just did what the label says [conductance of around 270 +/- 40 uS (Mikrosiemens)]

    I set up the tank last year, i let it be there for a long time so see if the pH was altered by the petrified wood or the texas holey rock, and i didn't see much of a change. I do water changes every week and add SS until the water is at 200.

    pH is sitting at 8.6 now

    and conductance is at 390, i made a mistake of not heating up the water when mixing the mineral powder. i'm glad so far everything is going well and ill try to achieve a lower conductance in the tank.

    gH 30ppm

    kH 20 ppm

    To be honest i have no idea how this parameters affect the shrimp but they have been at this rate constantly.

  12. [Pics Coming Soon] Sulawesi Shrimp Babies!

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    Hey folks, got a sulawesi shipment around 2 months ago (more less) and i had a berried one that came in, but dead (duh). Took eggs out carefully and 1 egg hatch but baby (shrimplet?) died almost right away </3. Around the 2nd of this month i spotted a berried female, and today i saw a baby shrimplet close to other adults, all I have to do now is try to take a picture, either with a phone camera or learn how to take good pictures with a dslr with out a macro lens!

  16. Mysterious Cherry Shrimp Deaths

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    That should fine for chlorine / chloramine.

    For ammonia if you have decent biological filtration and drip in the new water slowly it should be able to tackle the ammonia. You can also add some biological additives like Cycle or Prodibio Start-up / Stop Ammo

    I would also increase aeration if you haven't ready done so

    couldn't agree more

  19. Crayfish Id

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    Mmmm charis all I know is:

    Tiny little white worm found in shrimp head (rostrum?), but I fact can be all over the body, like all over. I know, by experience, they hate fresh water aquarium salt, I'm doing a few baths as we speak, you can see the parasite trying to escape the host. So long story short after a few of these baths he should be pretty clean.

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